My Favorite Claude Code Automation: GitHub Trending Repos on Autopilot

Chase shares what he calls his favorite Claude Code automation, and it is surprisingly simple to set up. It automatically surfaces the top 10 trending GitHub repos created in the last week plus the top 5 trending repos of the month by stars, and populates the results directly into his Obsidian vault. If you want to stay on top of every new AI tool hitting GitHub without manually checking every day, this is the move.

How It Works

The automation leverages the fact that GitHub's trending data does not require any special API key or complex authentication. Claude Code can simply query GitHub's trending endpoints, parse the results, and format them into a structured document. The output includes the repo name, link, description, star count, and creation date for each entry.

The automation output showing the top 10 GitHub trending repos for the week with details on each repository

Chase organizes the output into two sections. The first shows the top 10 trending repos created within the last 7 days -- essentially the hottest new projects. The second section shows the top 5 trending repos for the month, ranked by star count, which captures projects with more sustained momentum. Repos visible in the output include guizang-ppt-skill (a Claude Code skill for HTML slide decks), awesome-gpt-image-2, and claw-code (the fastest Rust repo to surpass 100K stars).

The top 5 trending repos for the month including claw-code, awesome-design-md, and MemPalace

Setting It Up

The setup is dead simple. You go into Claude Code and tell it: create an automation that populates inside my Obsidian vault showing the top 10 trending AI GitHub repos created in the last week. Claude Code handles the rest -- building the script, formatting the output, and writing it to the right location.

You can even configure this as a remote task so it runs in the cloud when you are not at your computer, delivering fresh results on a schedule.

Chase explaining how to set up the automation inside Claude Code with a simple natural language prompt

Key Takeaways

Claude Code can automatically surface trending GitHub repos (weekly new + monthly top) without any API keys
Output goes directly into Obsidian or any other local knowledge base
Setup requires nothing more than a natural language prompt to Claude Code
Can run as a remote task on a schedule for fully hands-off operation
Great for staying current on the AI open source ecosystem without manual browsing

Resources

GitHub Trending -- Source data for the automation
Obsidian -- Knowledge management tool used as the output destination
Claude Code -- Anthropic's CLI for Claude, runs the automation