Name: private-github-search
Author: ykdojo

Imported from ykdojo/claude-code-tips (skills/private-github-search/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add ykdojo/claude-code-tips --skill private-github-search. Copyright stays with the author.

Private GitHub search

GitHub's modern code search (the one that indexes private repos) is web-only; gh search code uses the legacy engine and often returns nothing for private repos. Instead, search a local mirror of all the user's repos - it covers the same content as GitHub's index (default branch, non-fork) and a full search takes milliseconds.

Searching

Find the bundled sync script (works for plugin installs and manual symlinks):

find ~/.claude ~/.codex -name "private-github-search-sync.sh" 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1

Always refresh first - it exits instantly if the mirror was synced within the last hour, and takes ~15s otherwise (--force syncs regardless of age):

bash <script-path>
rg -il 'pattern' ~/repo-mirror/repos          # which files
rg -in 'pattern' ~/repo-mirror/repos | head   # matching lines

First-time setup

If ~/repo-mirror/owners.txt doesn't exist: ask the user which GitHub accounts to mirror (don't guess - they may manage several), write them one per line to ~/repo-mirror/owners.txt, then run the sync script in the background (initial clone takes a few minutes; needs gh auth with access to those accounts).

Caveats

Only the default-branch tip is mirrored - for history or other branches, use git log -S in a full clone or GitHub web search.
The mirror may contain private data: keep it out of synced folders and never commit or publish its contents.

Install private-github-search and it becomes one more candidate the router can pick - when it fits.

A listing is a routing target with a manifest: what it does, which domains it covers, what it costs and who publishes it. Once installed it sits beside your own models and tools, is scored like any other candidate for each request, and shows up in the trace when it wins. Ratings come from workspaces that installed it, one per account.

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