Repiq

Skill yutakobayashidev/repiq/skills/repiq

Fetch objective metrics for OSS repositories. Built for AI agents.

Install

npx -y skills add yutakobayashidev/repiq --skill repiq

Assembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.

One thing to look at

3 stars3 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.

What its author says it does

Copied from the file, not written here

Fetch objective metrics for OSS repositories and packages. Use when evaluating, comparing, or selecting libraries and repositories. Supports GitHub repos, npm/PyPI/crates.io packages, and Go modules. Returns stars, downloads, contributors, release activity, and more as Markdown tables (or JSON with --json). No judgments, no recommendations, no scores — just numbers.

The file declares its own license as MIT. That is the author’s claim about this one file, and it is not the same thing as the license GitHub reports for the repository, which is listed with the other numbers below.

SKILL.md

4.4 KB, as published. Nobody here has run it

repiq

Fetch objective metrics for OSS repositories and packages. Built for AI agents that need fast, non-reasoning data retrieval for library and repository evaluation.

Role separation: repiq provides raw data. You (the agent) do the reasoning. The human makes the final decision.

Quick Start

# Fetch GitHub repo metrics
repiq github:facebook/react

# Fetch npm package metrics
repiq npm:react

# Compare multiple targets across providers
repiq github:facebook/react npm:react pypi:flask crates:serde go:golang.org/x/net

# Output as JSON for programmatic use
repiq --json github:facebook/react npm:react

Output is Markdown tables by default, grouped by provider. Use --json for structured data.

Supported Schemes

Scheme	Format	Example
GitHub	`github:<owner>/<repo>`	`github:facebook/react`
npm	`npm:<package>`	`npm:react`, `npm:@types/node`
PyPI	`pypi:<package>`	`pypi:requests`
crates.io	`crates:<crate>`	`crates:serde`
Go Modules	`go:<module/path>`	`go:golang.org/x/net`

Multiple targets can be passed in a single command. They are fetched in parallel.

Flags

Flag	Description
`--markdown`	Output as Markdown tables grouped by provider (default)
`--json`	Output as JSON array
`--ndjson`	Output as newline-delimited JSON (one object per line)
`--no-cache`	Bypass 24-hour disk cache and always fetch from API
`--version`	Print version and exit

Key Metrics by Provider

GitHub (8 metrics): stars, forks, open_issues, contributors, release_count, last_commit_days, commits_30d, issues_closed_30d

npm (5 metrics): weekly_downloads, latest_version, last_publish_days, dependencies_count, license

PyPI (7 metrics): weekly_downloads, monthly_downloads, latest_version, last_publish_days, dependencies_count, license, requires_python

crates.io (7 metrics): downloads, recent_downloads, latest_version, last_publish_days, dependencies_count, license, reverse_dependencies

Go Modules (4 metrics): latest_version, last_publish_days, dependencies_count, license

For full field descriptions and types, see references/REFERENCE.md.

Use Cases

Compare libraries for the same task

repiq github:expressjs/express github:fastify/fastify npm:express npm:fastify

Compare stars, commits_30d, weekly_downloads, and last_publish_days to assess activity and adoption.

Evaluate repository health

repiq github:some-org/some-repo

Check last_commit_days (is it maintained?), issues_closed_30d (is the team responsive?), and contributors (bus factor).

Cross-ecosystem package comparison

repiq npm:zod pypi:pydantic crates:serde

Compare equivalent packages across language ecosystems using weekly_downloads, dependencies_count, and license.

Authentication

GitHub only. Token is resolved automatically:

gh auth token (GitHub CLI — recommended)
GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable
Unauthenticated (60 req/hour rate limit)

Authenticated requests get 5,000 req/hour. Other providers require no authentication.

Installation

# Go install
go install github.com/yutakobayashidev/repiq/cmd/repiq@latest

# Or use Nix flake
nix run github:yutakobayashidev/repiq

Verify installation:

repiq --version

Caching

Results are cached on disk for 24 hours at $XDG_CACHE_HOME/repiq/ (typically ~/.cache/repiq/).

Use --no-cache to bypass cache reads (writes still occur for subsequent runs).

Error Handling

Failed targets return {"target": "...", "error": "..."} — other targets still succeed.
Exit code is 1 if any target fails, 0 if all succeed.
Common errors: 404 (not found), rate limit exceeded, network timeout (30s).