Claude-skill-registry gitingest

Use when the user wants to fetch and contextualize a GitHub repository for future reference.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/data/gitingest" ~/.claude/skills/majiayu000-claude-skill-registry-gitingest && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: 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

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

Run the command
Read generated file to understand repo
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