gh-stars-organizer

gh-stars-organizer helps you turn a chaotic GitHub stars list into a searchable, structured knowledge base.

It fetches your starred repositories, classifies them with an LLM, builds embedding-based similarity search, and organizes results into GitHub Lists (with a local fallback when list APIs or scopes are unavailable).

Why this exists

Developers star hundreds of repositories and later struggle to find what matters.
This tool makes starred repos discoverable again.

Key capabilities

• Fetch all stars (with pagination for large accounts)
• LLM-based repository classification into practical engineering categories
• Embedding-based semantic search and similarity grouping
• Automatic organization into GitHub User Lists
• Local cache (SQLite + FAISS) to avoid repeated expensive work
• Insights report (stars-insights.md) with trends and cleanup recommendations
• Interactive terminal UI (tui) for one-click workflows

Architecture

flowchart TD
    A["GitHub GraphQL API"] --> B["Fetch Stars"]
    B --> C["LLM Classification"]
    C --> D["Embeddings Generation"]
    D --> E["Local SQLite Cache"]
    E --> F["Create/Reuse GitHub Lists"]
    F --> G["Assign Repositories"]
    E --> H["Insights Report"]

Installation

Requirements

• Python 3.11+
• GitHub CLI authenticated
• OpenAI-compatible API key (OPENAI_API_KEY) for remote classification/embeddings (optional; local fallbacks exist)

Install from source

git clone https://github.com/vins13pattar/gh-stars-organizer.git
cd gh-stars-organizer
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Quickstart

gh-stars-organizer config --init
gh-stars-organizer sync
gh-stars-organizer preview
gh-stars-organizer organize
gh-stars-organizer insights

Commands

• gh-stars-organizer sync — fetch and cache stars
• gh-stars-organizer preview — show predicted category per repo
• gh-stars-organizer organize — assign repositories into GitHub Lists
• gh-stars-organizer insights — generate stars-insights.md
• gh-stars-organizer search "<query>" — semantic repo search
• gh-stars-organizer tui — interactive TUI
• gh-stars-organizer config — initialize/show configuration

TUI

Launch:

gh-stars-organizer tui

TUI includes:

• Sync / Preview / Organize / Insights actions
• Semantic search
• Live status and progress messages

Configuration

Default config file: ~/.gh-stars-organizer/config.yaml
Example template: examples/config.yaml

Common options:

• LLM model
• Embedding model
• Categories
• Cache/index/report paths
• Rate limits

GitHub List behavior

Organization uses GitHub User Lists GraphQL APIs (lists, createUserList, updateUserListsForItem).

• For GitHub list updates, your gh auth token needs user scope:
  • gh auth refresh -s user
• If list APIs/scopes are unavailable, the tool generates local categorized lists at:
  • ~/.gh-stars-organizer/lists

Example output

Fetching stars... page 3, repos 300
Caching repositories locally...
Classifying repositories... 120/742
Organize done. Created 8 lists, processed 742 assignments.

Development

pytest -q

CI and release workflows are included in .github/workflows/.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT