📈 github-growth-check — Know if your repo is actually growing

GitHub gives you numbers. This tells you what they mean — and what to do next.

Claude Code skill · Works from any GitHub repo directory

A Claude Code skill that pulls GitHub's traffic API — views, clones, referrers, stars, popular paths — and turns it into a diagnostic brief with source-adjusted benchmarks and one clear next action.

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The Problem

You push your project, share it once, then open GitHub Insights:

Views: 342    Unique: 89
Clones: 18    Unique: 11

Now what? Is 18 clones from 342 views good? Terrible? GitHub doesn't say. You don't know if Reddit or Google sent the traffic. You don't know if it's growing or if the spike just faded. You close the tab and guess.

The Fix

check growth

## GitHub Growth Check — yourname/your-repo
Jun 3 – Jun 17 · 2 days old · Claude skill

Numbers
Views: 342 total / 89 unique (3.8 views per visitor)
Clones: 18 total / 11 unique — 5.3% clone rate (strong for reddit traffic)
Stars: 12 ★

Traffic sources
reddit.com — 280 views — your r/ClaudeAI post is still driving. Engage the comments.
github.com  — 51 views  — internal discovery is working. Add more repo topics.

Trend
Week 1: 198 views → Week 2: 144 views (-27% — launch spike fading, normal)

What this means
Your Reddit post converted well — 5.3% clone rate against a 3–8% benchmark for Reddit traffic.
The week-over-week dip is normal post-launch decay, not a signal something is wrong.
Internal GitHub discovery is picking up, which means your topics are indexed.

Do this next
Reply to every comment in the r/ClaudeAI thread today — it bumps the post back to the top
and extends the traffic tail by 2–3 days.

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Install

Platform	Command
Claude Code	/plugin install github:Rishiidev/github-growth-check
Cowork	/plugin install github:Rishiidev/github-growth-check
Manual	Copy skills/github-growth-check/SKILL.md → ~/.claude/skills/github-growth-check/SKILL.md

Requirements: GitHub CLI (gh) authenticated with push access to the repo you want to check.

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What makes it different

Most traffic tools show you numbers. This one interprets them.

Clone rate is benchmarked per traffic source

A 3% clone rate means completely different things depending on where traffic came from:

Source	Expected clone rate	Below this = investigate
HN / Product Hunt	8–15%	Under 5%
Reddit (relevant sub)	3–8%	Under 2%
Google organic	0.5–3%	Under 0.5%
github.com browse	1–4%	Under 1%
Twitter/X	1–3%	Under 1%

Data lag correction built in

GitHub's traffic API has a 1–2 day reporting delay. Without correction, the most recent days always look like a drop. This skill excludes the last 2 days from trend math — so you see a real week-over-week comparison, not a false alarm.

Builds long-term history

GitHub only stores 14 days of traffic data. Every run saves a snapshot to ~/.github-growth-check/ — so after a few weeks you can see 30, 60, 90-day trends that GitHub's UI never shows you.

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All trigger phrases

Say this	What happens
check growth	Runs the check on the current repo
growth check	Same
github growth check	Same
how is my repo doing	Same
where is my traffic coming from	Same
check my stars	Same (stars are part of the report)

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What it checks

Signal	What it tells you
Page views	How many people are landing and from where
Unique visitors	Real humans, not repeated visits
Clone rate	Strong intent signal — people who installed it
Top referrers	Which source to double down on
Popular paths	README vs releases vs a specific file
Star count	Current tally + trend vs last check
Week-over-week	Growth, flat, or fading spike

What it never touches

Protected	Why
Your repo's files	Read-only — only runs gh api calls
Your git history	Never commits or pushes anything
Private repo contents	Only reads traffic metadata GitHub already exposes
Your credentials	Uses your existing gh auth — no new tokens

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Platform notes

Platform	Notes
Claude Code	Full support — auto-detects repo from git remote
Cowork	Full support
Claude.ai	Supported — but no terminal access means you paste results manually
Non-GitHub repos	Not supported — GitHub traffic API only

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Star History

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License

MIT © Rishiidev

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