📊 gh-contrib

A powerful GitHub CLI extension to visualize and understand contributions across your organization

gh-contrib helps you track, visualize, and analyze GitHub contributions with beautiful graphs, detailed summaries, and AI-powered insights. Perfect for team leads, project managers, and developers who want to understand contribution patterns.

• 📈 Visual contribution graphs - See weekly activity patterns at a glance
• 🔍 Detailed contribution lists - Pull requests, issues, and combined views
• 🤖 AI-powered summaries - Automatically summarize PR/issue content
• 🎯 Flexible filtering - Filter by date ranges and organizations
• ⚡ Fast and intuitive - Built with Go for speed and efficiency

gh ext install maxbeizer/gh-contrib

# See your own contributions from the last 30 days
gh contrib graph

# Or check someone else's contributions
gh contrib graph octocat

💡 Tip: If no username is provided, the extension automatically uses your GitHub username!

Create beautiful weekly contribution graphs:

gh contrib graph [username]

Example output:

Week  1 (Apr 15 - Apr 21): •□■
Week  2 (Apr 22 - Apr 28): ○••
Week  3 (Apr 29 - May 05): ■□

Legend:
• = Closed PR  ○ = Open PR  ■ = Closed Issue  □ = Open Issue

Total Contributions: 7 over 31 days (avg: 0.23 per day)
PRs: 4 total (3 closed, 1 open)
Issues: 3 total (1 closed, 2 open)

Pull Requests Only:

gh contrib pulls [username]

Issues Only:

gh contrib issues [username]

Everything Together:

gh contrib all [username]

Summarize multiple PR/issue descriptions using AI:

gh contrib summarize

Pass content via stdin, separated by ---END-OF-ENTRY--- delimiters.

Get detailed execution information:

gh contrib --debug graph octocat

Filter contributions by date range:

# Get contributions since a specific date
gh contrib --since 2025-04-01 pulls octocat

# Works with all commands
gh contrib --since 2025-04-01 graph octocat

Date format: YYYY-MM-DD (defaults to 30 days ago if not specified)

Get just the content without metadata:

# Show only PR/issue body content
gh contrib --body-only pulls octocat

Query different organizations on the fly:

# Check contributions in a specific org
gh contrib --org primer pulls octocat

⚠️ Note: GitHub's search API doesn't support OR queries, so you can only query one organization at a time.

Filter contributions by repository visibility:

# Show only open source (public repo) contributions
gh contrib --visibility public pulls octocat

# Show only private repo contributions
gh contrib --visibility private pulls octocat

# Works with all commands
gh contrib --visibility public graph octocat

Choose your preferred AI model for summaries:

# Use a specific model for summarization
gh contrib --model gpt-3.5 summarize

View available models →

Customize default settings in ~/.config/gh/config.yml:

extensions:
  gh-contrib:
    org: my-custom-org # Default organization
    model: gpt-4o # Default AI model

Configuration options:

• org: Default organization name (fallback: github)
• model: Default AI model (fallback: gpt-4o)

• Go 1.16 or later
• GitHub CLI installed and authenticated

# Build and test locally
make build

# Run tests
make test

# See all available commands
make help

Run the comprehensive test suite:

./script/test

Includes race condition detection and timeout handling.

• 🔄 Default behavior: All commands default to your own username when none is provided
• 📊 Best visualization: Use graph command for quick visual insights
• 🎯 Focused analysis: Combine --since with specific date ranges for targeted analysis
• 🏃‍♂️ Quick debugging: Add --debug to any command for detailed execution info

# Quick personal overview
gh contrib graph

# Team member analysis (last 2 weeks)
gh contrib --since 2025-07-15 all teammate

# Organization-specific search
gh contrib --org microsoft pulls octocat

# Debug a slow query
gh contrib --debug --since 2025-01-01 graph octocat

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.