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Paperphyte/Repo X-ray

X-ray your repo before the agent does.

A coding agent — or a new hire — reads only what is in the repo. Paste a public GitHub repo and we look for eighteen things that decide whether it can be understood, built and trusted without asking anyone.

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“What is not in the repo does not exist. Not for the agent, not for whoever starts on Monday.”

A URL or just org/repo. Only the root directory and .github/ of the default branch are read. Private repos cannot be read without signing in — and we do not want your token.

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The requests go straight from your browser to api.github.com — four per repo, no sign-in. Paperphyte does not see which repo you check and nothing is stored. GitHub’s terms and its limit of 60 requests per hour apply.

What the X-ray looks for

A coding agent only reads what is in the repo. So does whoever starts on Monday. Repo X-ray looks for eighteen files and signals that decide whether a repo can be understood, built and trusted without asking anyone — and shows what it looked for, so every cross can be fixed in minutes.

Eighteen checks in four groups:

  • Onboarding — a README, an instruction file for agents (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md or equivalent), CONTRIBUTING, .editorconfig and a devcontainer.
  • Reproducible build — a dependency lockfile, a Dockerfile or compose file, a task runner such as a Makefile, justfile or package.json, and pinned tool versions.
  • Checks & automation — CI configuration, pre-commit hooks, Dependabot or Renovate, CODEOWNERS and a pull request template.
  • Pulse — a licence, a push within the last 90 days, no open pull request older than 30 days, and a repo that is not archived.

Each check scores one point of eighteen. From 14 the repo is healthy: what is missing is polish. Between 9 and 13 it is under observation — the basics are there, but there are gaps an agent or a new colleague will guess their way around. Below 9 it is a referral: most of what makes a repo self-explanatory is missing, which says nothing about the code, only about how much it demands of whoever arrives new.

The tool makes four calls straight from your browser to GitHub’s public API and reads only the root directory and .github/ on the default branch. Nothing is sent to us and nothing is stored. If AGENTS.md is missing, the AGENTS.md generator is the next step; if CI is missing, it is Delivery Engineering.