Hot Skills

Monitors ClawHub for skills gaining traction by tracking download and star growth, alerts on surges based on configurable thresholds.

Skill Surge Notifier

Monitors ClawHub for skills gaining traction. Tracks download and star counts over time and alerts when a skill is surging.

A surge is triggered when any of these are true:

• Download growth >30% since last check
• Total downloads >50,000
• Stars >200
• A new skill appeared in the top 10

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Setup

Requires Node.js 18+. No install needed — runs directly from the skill bundle.

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Commands

Command	What it does
node {baseDir}/cli.js fetch	Show top 20 skills by downloads
node {baseDir}/cli.js check	Run surge detection, top movers, and update state
node {baseDir}/cli.js status	Last check, thresholds, notification status
node {baseDir}/cli.js profile	Show current agent profile
node {baseDir}/cli.js profile set "description" "kw1,kw2"	Set profile for relevance scoring
node {baseDir}/cli.js config movers=5	Set number of top movers shown
node {baseDir}/cli.js config movers-off	Disable top movers
node {baseDir}/cli.js config growth=30 downloads=50000 stars=200	Update surge thresholds

Every check run always shows top N movers (by download delta) regardless of thresholds, so there's always something to look at.

When a profile is set, surges are scored 0-10 for relevance and sorted accordingly — most relevant first.

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Notes

• State is stored in ~/.skill-surge-notifier/state.json. The first run seeds the baseline; growth % appears from the second run onward.
• All output is printed to stdout. When used inside an agent, the agent must capture the CLI output to surface alerts in chat.
• To run automatically, add to crontab (crontab -e):

bash

0 */4 * * * node {baseDir}/cli.js check >> ~/.skill-surge-notifier/surge.log 2>&1

Environment Variables

These optional env vars override default paths and behavior:

Variable	Default	Description
SURGE_DIR	~/.skill-surge-notifier	Base directory for all state and config files
STATE_PATH	$SURGE_DIR/state.json	Path to the skill state file
CONFIG_PATH	$SURGE_DIR/config.json	Path to the config file
SCHEDULED	false	Set to true when running from a scheduler; adds a random 1–5 min delay before fetching to spread API load