Sending Claude Code on a Daily GitHub Patrol — Auto-Scoring Useful OSS and Skills

Short summary

The author describes github-scout.sh, a script that pairs with Claude Code to automatically crawl GitHub each morning, score useful OSS and skills, and inject findings into a daily brief. The design separates free crawling (gh CLI) from paid scoring (claude -p), caps token costs at 30 candidates, and routes skills by safety — auto-enabling markdown-only skills while quarantining those with bash scripts. Failed scoring retries the next day without stamping the seen ledger.

• •Separates free GitHub crawling from paid Claude scoring to fix token costs
• •Routes skills by file layout: auto-enable safe ones, quarantine those with scripts
• •Three search lanes: Claude Code skills, development OSS, and trending repos

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