building-github-index

Installation
SKILL.md

Building GitHub Index

Create markdown indexes of GitHub repositories optimized for Claude project knowledge. Indexes enable retrieval via GitHub API with semantic descriptions for effective matching.

Quick Start

# Documentation repos (markdown/notebooks)
python scripts/github_index.py owner/repo -o index.md

# Code repos (extract symbols via tree-sitter)
python scripts/github_index.py owner/repo --code-symbols -o index.md

# Multiple repos combined
python scripts/github_index.py owner/repo1 owner/repo2 -o combined.md

Script Options

Installs
40
GitHub Stars
127
First Seen
Jan 25, 2026
building-github-index — oaustegard/claude-skills