I built a GitHub repository intelligence API — here's what I learned

Every open source maintainer I've talked to has the same problem.

Their GitHub issues are a mess. Missing descriptions. No labels. Tickets open for 8 months with zero activity. New contributors picking up issues that turn out to be 3-week architectural rewrites with no warning.

The manual triage never ends.

So I built RepoAudit — a REST API that audits any public GitHub repository and returns two things: a data quality report and AI-powered complexity scores per issue. One API call. Structured JSON back.

Here's what I learned building it.

I built a GitHub repository intelligence API — here's what I learned

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