assistant-research

A personalized research assistant that generates article digests based on your GitHub activity.

Environment Variables

Required

• USER_GITHUB_TOKEN: GitHub personal access token for API access
• ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: Anthropic API key for LLM-based features

Optional

• EXCLUDED_ORGS: Comma-separated list of GitHub organization names whose repositories should be excluded from your activity profile. Example: EXCLUDED_ORGS="org1,org2,org3"

Features

Organization Filtering

When building your activity profile, you can exclude repositories belonging to specific organizations by setting the EXCLUDED_ORGS environment variable. This is useful for:

• Excluding work-related repositories from personal profiles
• Filtering out repositories from organizations you contribute to but don't want in your digest
• Keeping your activity profile focused on specific projects

Example:

export EXCLUDED_ORGS="mycompany,another-org"