Cortexa research tool·structure·github

GitHub Get Repository

Get detailed metadata for a specific GitHub public repository. Returns full repository information including description, statistics (stars, forks, watchers, open issues), programming language, topics, license, README existence, and recent activity. Use full_name in owner/repo format (e.g., 'deepmind/alphafold'). Useful for getting repository details for scientific software tools.

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 114msCortexa

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 114ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "owner": {
      "description": "Repository owner (username or organization). Examples: 'deepmind', 'bioconductor', 'pytorch', 'tensorflow', 'pandas-dev'",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "repo": {
      "description": "Repository name. Examples: 'alphafold', 'pytorch', 'pandas', 'scikit-learn', 'biopython'",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "owner",
    "repo"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default GitHub Get Repository call

public-safeinput

{
  "owner": "",
  "repo": ""
}

Expected response keys: success

Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_GitHub_get_repository
Tool name: GitHub_get_repository
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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