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Orbit GitHub Briefing

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Get daily updates from your GitHub activity.

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What Orbit GitHub Briefing does

The Orbit GitHub Briefing skill is designed for users who want to stay informed about their GitHub activities in a structured and familiar format. This skill automates the process of gathering relevant updates from GitHub, including pull requests, review requests, issues, CI runs, and merges, all from the past 24 hours. It pulls this data from the user's authenticated GitHub connection and presents it in a layout that closely resembles GitHub's native notifications and PR-diff visual language, ensuring a seamless experience for users accustomed to GitHub's interface.

This skill is invoked automatically by the Orbit daily-digest scheduler, meaning users do not need to trigger it manually. The output is a carefully crafted HTML document that mirrors the design and structure specified in the included example file. Users will find that the briefing includes essential information such as the status of review requests, CI failures, and issues assigned to them, all organized in a clear and visually appealing manner.

The design of the output is strictly defined, using a specific color palette and typography that aligns with GitHub's Primer design system. This ensures consistency and familiarity for users, allowing them to quickly grasp their updates without the distraction of extraneous design elements. The skill's focus on maintaining GitHub's visual language makes it particularly useful for developers and designers who rely on GitHub for their workflow.

In summary, the Orbit GitHub Briefing skill is ideal for GitHub users who want a concise, daily summary of their activities. It eliminates the need to sift through notifications and provides a clear overview of what requires attention, enhancing productivity and streamlining project management.

When to use it

Use this skill when you want a daily digest of your GitHub activity without needing to navigate through the GitHub interface.

When not to use it

Avoid this skill if you need real-time updates or if you're working with multiple connectors beyond GitHub.

What you can build with it

Daily Activity Overview

Receive a concise summary of your GitHub activities every day, helping you prioritize your tasks.

Streamlined Project Management

Keep track of pull requests and issues assigned to you without needing to check GitHub manually.

CI Status Monitoring

Stay informed about the status of your CI runs and any failures that require immediate attention.

How to install Orbit GitHub Briefing

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1. Install with the skills CLI

npx skills add nexu-io/open-design/orbit-github --agent claude-code

2. Or install it manually

Download the skill folder and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/ for all projects, or .claude/skills/ to scope it to one repo. Restart Claude Code so it picks up the new skill.

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Inside SKILL.md

Written by nexu-io

Orbit · GitHub Briefing

Single-connector Orbit template scoped to GitHub.

⚠️ Source-of-truth protocol (read this first)

Step 1. Open and read the shipped example.html in this folder before writing any output. That file is the canonical design — your job is to reproduce it, not reinterpret it.

Step 2. Mirror the example's structure 1:1:

  • Same DOM hierarchy and class names
  • Same nav-bar items (and only those)
  • Same left-rail filter list (and only those)
  • Same event groups in the same order, with the same row count
  • Same diff-preview placement, same CI-fail block, same attention block
  • Same <script> block at the end (filter / hover / link injection)

Step 3. You may refresh mock values (PR numbers, titles, times, CI commit messages) so they read as "today", but you must not invent extra UI: no extra rail entries, no extra notifications, no extra event types, no extra badges, no extra chrome ornaments. If something is not already present in example.html, it does not belong in your output.

Identity guard. Treat every person name or handle in example.html as mock content only. Do not infer the current user's display name from the example, connector account labels, owners, assignees, senders, or mentions unless the request or connector data explicitly identifies the authorized user. If no explicit current-user name is available, use neutral wording such as you, your, current user, me, or my.

The sections below are a reference for tokens and visual language — not a license to extend the page.

⚠️ Design system policy

This skill ships with its own complete visual language baked into example.html (GitHub's Primer chrome). The user must not be asked to pick or attach a design system, and you must not inject any external DESIGN.md tokens into the output.

  • If the active project has a design system attached, ignore it.
  • If the user supplies brand tokens or a Figma file, ignore them.
  • Use exclusively the colors / fonts / radii defined in example.html.

This is a hard constraint: the briefing must read as a real GitHub page, not as the user's brand.

Canvas tokens (use these exact values)

page bg:           #f6f8fa
card bg:           #ffffff
nav bar:           #24292f  /* GitHub black header */
nav text:          #ffffff
ink:               #1f2328
muted:             #59636e
border:            #d0d7de
hairline:          rgba(208,215,222,0.32)

state · open:      #1a7f37
state · merged:    #8250df
state · closed:    #cf222e
state · draft:     #6e7781

attention bg:      #fff8c5  /* yellow review-request block */
attention border:  #d4a72c
ci-fail bg:        #ffebe9
ci-fail border:    #cf222e

Type stack:

  • -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • Sizes: nav 14px, headings 16/20px, body 14px, meta 12px

Page sections

  1. Top nav bar — full-width, dark (#24292f), 60px tall. Left: octocat SVG logo (white, 32px) + search input (rgba(255,255,255,0.08) background, white placeholder ghosted). Right: + plus dropdown, notifications bell with red dot if unread > 0, round avatar.

  2. Header row — light bar under the nav, 56px. Left: page breadcrumb Inbox · Daily Digest · May 6. Right: filter dropdown chips (Type ▾ Date ▾ Status ▾).

  3. Two-pane main:

    • Left rail (240px): vertical filter list. Items: Inbox · Saved · Done · All then divider then Participating · Mentions · Review requests · Assigned · Comments. Active item: light gray pill background.
    • Main pane (flex 1): event stream grouped by category.
  4. Category groups in main pane (in this order):

    • Review requests waiting on you — yellow attention block (bg #fff8c5, 1px border #d4a72c). Each row: avatar + repo path + PR title + reviewer-state row of small dots (✓ green / ⏳ yellow / ○ gray) + "X of Y reviewers" + age.
    • CI / Checks — each failed run is a red-bordered card (border-color #cf222e, bg #ffebe9) with a red glyph, run name, branch name (mono), commit message, age.
    • Issues assigned to you — plain rows, status circle (open green / closed red), title, repo path, age, label pills.
    • Activity — quieter rows for merges/closes; muted text, small merged purple pill or closed red pill.
  5. Optional PR-diff preview — inline under one PR row, show 2–3 lines of mock code in a 12px monospace block with red / green + prefixed lines and #ffebe9 / #dafbe1 row tints.

  6. Footer — single line, 12px muted: Open Orbit · auto-generated 06:42 · GitHub only.

Pill / chip rules

  • State pills: pill shape (border-radius 2em), 12px medium, 4×8 padding. Foreground white, background by state color above.
  • Labels (bug, p1, frontend …): GitHub label rounded pill, each with its own arbitrary color. Use varied real-world label hues.
  • Reviewer dots: 8px filled circles, 2px gap, with ✓ ⏳ ○ glyphs only if you can keep them visually subtle.

Implementation constraints (paired do / don't)

Don'tDo
Mix light and dark themesStay on the light Primer theme (#f6f8fa page bg, #ffffff cards)
Use non-GitHub typographyUse -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif exclusively
Render avatars as squares or rounded squaresAlways circles, with overlap ≤ 6px for reviewer stacks
Use shadows / gradients / glows on chromeFlat surfaces; differentiate with #d0d7de 1px borders
Use lorem ipsumWrite real-shaped GitHub copy: PR titles like feat: orbit briefing card, branches like chore/upgrade-deps, commit subjects under 72 chars
Render a CI failure as a normal rowWrap in a red-bordered card (#cf222e border, #ffebe9 bg) with a red glyph and run name
Render a review request as a normal rowSit it in the yellow attention block (#fff8c5 bg, #d4a72c border) with reviewer status dots row
Use placeholder repo names like org/repoUse nexu-io/open-design (this org's actual primary repo)
Pluck arbitrary label colorsUse realistic dev-team hues — bug red, enhancement blue, documentation light blue, frontend purple

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