A Tool That Reads Your GitHub the Way a Staff Interviewer Does

A recruiter spends maybe 30 seconds on your GitHub before deciding whether to keep reading. I had no idea what those 30 seconds actually showed, and I could not work it out by looking myself, because I know what every repo was supposed to mean. So I handed the profile to something with no memory of my intentions.

What it actually is

/github-audit points at a username and reverse-engineers how the whole profile reads to a technical hiring manager running a senior loop - not 1 repo, the whole first impression. It grades across a dozen weighted lenses: the bio, the pinned repos, whether the READMEs explain anything, the commit rhythm, whether the flagship projects look finished or abandoned. Then it ranks the fixes and drops 1 clean report. Read-only - it never touches a repo.

The rule I gave it is honesty over politeness. A real C beats a flattering A. It's a job-hunt tool, and a tool that tells me I'm doing great when I'm not is worse than useless - it's actively expensive.

In practice

I ran it on myself, expecting a pat on the back. It gave me a B-minus and a list. 3 of my "flagship" repos had no README worth reading. My bio said nothing a hiring manager could use. 2 pinned repos were half-finished experiments I'd forgotten to unpin. None of that is hard to fix - the problem was I couldn't see it, because it was mine.

What I learned

It's shockingly easy to lie to yourself about your own profile. You know what every repo means, so you read the intention instead of the page. A tool that grades it like a stranger doesn't get to know your intentions. That gap - between what I meant and what's actually on screen - was the entire value.

The skill behind this is open source. Clone the 1 folder you need from bunlongheng/audits, point it at your own work, and see your profile the way a stranger with 30 seconds sees it.