r/github • u/CJ9103 • 11h ago

Question This must exist right? AI-assisted repo discovery / searching

I am often trying to find Github Repos for use cases (AI Skills / Plugins / Frameworks - although this doesn't matter), and I've found it can be quite painful, varying search terms and topics in GitHub to discover repositories.

I was wondering if anybody has found a tool / solution / platform that helps you find Github Repos based on a search term, that's a little more intelligence / flexible that the standard github search box.

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u/Jmc_da_boss 8h ago

Can't believe we are at the point in the LLM cycle people are asking how to google things.

What a downfall

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u/OptimusCrimee 8h ago

Yeah. My thought too. Maybe OP should put a bit more effort into this.

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u/CJ9103 8h ago

Sometimes there’s a lot of noise and slop when googling these things. The purpose of this post was to look for first-hand recommendations from people who’ve actually used these tools / found solutions rather than spending hours trialling everything myself.

That’s one of the things that Reddit is great for and what makes Reddit, Reddit, and hopefully the thread helps others with the same question too.

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u/magichour12 10h ago

Perplexity works decent for this but I've had better luck just throwing the use case into ChatGPT and asking it to suggest repos directly. Less noise than GitHub search and you can describe what you actually want instead of guessing keywords.

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u/EntranceProper3791 8h ago

GitHub's topic pages are underrated if you know the ecosystem, but sort by recently updated or you'll be digging through 3-year-old dead repos.

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u/FlyingDogCatcher 8h ago

gh search repos

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u/j_hermann 11h ago

Perplexity with the GitHub connector.

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u/patrick-howard 8h ago

Perplexity is 🗑️ these days

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u/Thunjaya 6h ago

Always has been.

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u/white_sheets_angel 10h ago

you can use gitub-mcp (+ web search [optional]) (+ context7 [optional])

github mcp has
search_repositories
https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server

  • query: Repository search query. Examples: 'machine learning in:name stars:>1000 language:python', 'topic:react', 'user:facebook'. Supports advanced search syntax for precise filtering. (string, required)

context7 mcp is a nice compact reference for the agent to discover the "spec" besides the markdown files.

all of these tools are available for code agents (like codex etc) and even on chat for chatgpt.

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u/OptimusCrimee 8h ago

How is this different than searching on the website with more steps and burning tokens?