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Fetching GitHub repo or trending info via gh CLI and rendering beautiful SVG/PNG card images. Use when asked to visualize repo stats, trending repos, or generate GitHub-style cards.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/ob-labs/agentseek/blob/HEAD/skills/github-repo-cards/SKILL.md

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GitHub Repo Cards

Generate beautiful GitHub-style SVG card images for repositories or trending projects, then convert them to PNG.

Capabilities

  1. Repo Card — given <org>/<repo>, produce a card showing:

    • Basic info (name, description, language, license)
    • Star & commit activity sparkline
    • Top N contributors (avatars + commit counts)
    • A customisable "analysis" text block

  2. Trending Card — fetch today's trending repos and render a list card with:

    • Repo name, description, language badge
    • Star / fork counts
    • Recent commit activity sparkline (mini bar chart)

Workflows

Generate a Repo Card

uv run scripts/gh_repo_card.py <org>/<repo> [--top-n 5] [--analysis "Your analysis text here"] [--output card.svg]

The script path is relative to this skill directory: skills/github-repo-cards/scripts/gh_repo_card.py

This will:

  1. Call gh to fetch repo metadata, stargazer counts, commit activity, and top contributors.
  2. Render an SVG card with all the information.
  3. Convert the SVG to PNG via rsvg-convert (falls back to ImageMagick convert).

Generate a Trending Card

uv run scripts/gh_trending_card.py [--language python] [--since daily] [--limit 10] [--output trending.svg]

The script path is relative to this skill directory: scripts/gh_trending_card.py

This will:

  1. Scrape GitHub trending page (or use gh api search with recent star sorting).
  2. Render a multi-row SVG list card.
  3. Convert to PNG.

Output

SVG and PNG files are written to the current working directory (or the path given by --output). The PNG file shares the same base name.

Requirements

  • gh CLI authenticated (gh auth status)
  • rsvg-convert (librsvg) or ImageMagick convert for SVG→PNG
  • Python ≥ 3.12, run via uv run (PEP 723 inline metadata)