github-profile-dashboard (Claude Code skill)

A Claude Code skill that builds the special GitHub profile README (github.com/<username>/<username>) with stat/streak/top-language cards, skill icons, and social badges.

It also knows how to self-host the github-readme-stats API on your own AWS account (Lambda + CloudFront), because the public github-readme-stats.vercel.app deployment is shared by millions of profiles and frequently goes down with 503 DEPLOYMENT_PAUSED.

Use it

Drop this folder into .claude/skills/github-profile-dashboard/ in any repo (or your global ~/.claude/skills/), then in Claude Code:

Build me a GitHub profile dashboard like <screenshot/description>

Claude will read SKILL.md and follow the steps: gather your info, write the profile README, and — only if you ask for reliability/self-hosting — run scripts/deploy.sh to stand up your own stats API behind a CDN cache.

What's in here

• SKILL.md — the instructions Claude follows
• templates/README.template.md — the profile README layout (placeholders only, no personal data)
• templates/Dockerfile.lambda — packages github-readme-stats' official express.js self-host entrypoint for AWS Lambda (via the Lambda Web Adapter)
• templates/cache-policy.template.json, templates/cf-dist.template.json — CloudFront config that forwards query strings (required — the default AWS-managed cache policy drops them, which would serve one cached image regardless of username/theme)
• scripts/deploy.sh — end-to-end deploy script (idempotent, safe to re-run)

Cost

Effectively $0/month for personal-profile-scale traffic — Lambda and CloudFront both have generous perpetual free tiers, and this scales to zero when nobody's viewing your profile.