Agent skill

gitingest

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Install this agent skill to your Project

npx add-skill https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry/tree/main/skills/data/gitingest

SKILL.md

Fetch GitHub Repository Context

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS

Instructions

1. Parse Input

  • Full URL: use directly
  • user/repo: construct https://github.com/{user/repo}
  • Single name: infer canonical repo (e.g., "rails" → "rails/rails"); if ambiguous, ask

2. Parse Filters

Natural language filters map to options:

  • "only Python files" → -i "*.py"
  • "exclude tests" → -e "test/*" -e "*_test.py"
  • "branch develop" → -b develop

3. Build Command

bash
mkdir -p docs/reference/
gitingest [OPTIONS] -o docs/reference/<user>-<repo>.txt <url>

Options:

Flag Purpose
-o PATH Output file (required)
-i PATTERN Include pattern (repeatable)
-e PATTERN Exclude pattern (repeatable)
-b NAME Branch
-s BYTES Max file size
--include-gitignored Include .gitignore'd files
--include-submodules Include submodules
-t TOKEN GitHub PAT for private repos

4. Execute & Confirm

  1. Run the command
  2. Read generated file to understand repo
  3. Report: repo name, purpose, file location, filters applied

Examples

/gitingest rails                    → rails/rails to docs/reference/rails-rails.txt
/gitingest jdx/mise only rust       → -i "*.rs" filter
/gitingest user/repo exclude tests  → -e "test/*" -e "*_test.py"
/gitingest https://github.com/x/y branch main

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