GitHub Skill

Interact with GitHub repositories using the GitHub API. No authentication required for public repositories (60 requests/hour), but you can add a token in config for higher limits (5000 requests/hour).

Available Tools

You have access to the following GitHub tools:

Search Repositories

javascript
1github_search_repos({
2  query: "language:javascript stars:>1000",
3  sort: "stars",  // optional: "stars", "forks", "updated"
4  limit: 10       // optional: max 30
5})

Get Repository Information

javascript
1github_get_repo({
2  owner: "HKUDS",
3  repo: "nanobot"
4})

List Issues

javascript
1github_list_issues({
2  owner: "HKUDS",
3  repo: "nanobot",
4  state: "open",  // optional: "open", "closed", "all"
5  limit: 10       // optional: max 30
6})

Get File Contents

javascript
1github_get_file({
2  owner: "HKUDS",
3  repo: "nanobot",
4  path: "README.md",
5  branch: "main"  // optional
6})

Examples

Find popular JavaScript projects:

javascript
1github_search_repos({
2  query: "language:javascript stars:>5000",
3  sort: "stars",
4  limit: 5
5})

Check repository details:

javascript
1github_get_repo({
2  owner: "facebook",
3  repo: "react"
4})

Read a specific file:

javascript
1github_get_file({
2  owner: "HKUDS",
3  repo: "nanobot",
4  path: "nanobot/agent/loop.py"
5})

Configuration

To increase rate limits, add a GitHub token to ~/.chatdock/settings.json:

json
1{
2  "github": {
3    "token": "ghp_your_token_here"
4  }
5}

Get a token at: https://github.com/settings/tokens