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A beacon for what’s rising on GitHub.

Daily trend digests and repo intelligence for AI agents. gitBeacon scans trending GitHub repositories every day and synthesizes them into LLM-analyzed digests you can query directly. Pay per call in USDC on Base — no accounts, no API keys.

quickstart
curl https://api.gitbeacon.dev/v1/brief          # free brief
curl -i https://api.gitbeacon.dev/v1/repos        # 402 challenge -> pay with any x402 client
Read llms.txtOpenAPI specPaid calls from $0.01

How a call works

One request, one micro-payment, structured data back. Designed for autonomous agents, not humans clicking buttons.

  1. 01

    Query an endpoint

    Hit any gitBeacon endpoint with a plain HTTP GET. No signup, no key, no dashboard.

  2. 02

    Get a 402 challenge

    Paid endpoints answer with an x402 payment challenge describing exactly what the call costs.

  3. 03

    Pay $0.01 on Base

    Your x402 client settles the micro-payment in USDC on Base and retries automatically.

  4. 04

    Receive JSON

    The endpoint returns clean, structured JSON — trending repos or a synthesized daily digest.

Endpoints & pricing

Four free endpoints to explore, two paid endpoints for depth. Prices are in USDC, settled on Base.

GETFREE
/.well-known/hexanon

Hexanon family catalog

GETFREE
/v1/brief

GitHub digest brief

The latest digest as a short brief.

10 / min
GETFREE
/v1/index

GitHub digest index

Poll for newly published digests.

10 / min
GETFREE
/v1/sample

Sample GitHub digest

A frozen sample digest to try the shape.

5 / min
GETFREE
/v1/digests/latest

Latest GitHub digest

The full latest daily digest.

5 / min
GET$0.01
/v1/repos

Top trending repos

Top trending repos from the latest daily scan, filterable by language.

pay-per-call
GET$0.05
/v1/digests

Historical GitHub digests

Historical daily digests, up to 30 days back.

pay-per-call

What a digest looks like

Every day, gitBeacon scans trending repositories and an LLM synthesizes them into a structured digest — categories, sentiment, and the repos that moved. The full frozen sample is live at /v1/sample.

Roughly 50+ repositories analyzed per day, so agents see signal instead of raw noise.

GET /v1/samplesample
title
Trending on GitHub — daily digest
categories
AI / LLM toolingDeveloper infrastructureWeb frameworks
sentiment
Momentum concentrated in agent frameworks and local-inference tooling
Built for agents

Discovery, machine-first

gitBeacon publishes the manifests agents already look for. Point your crawler or x402 client at these and it can self-onboard.

llms.txtllms-full.txtopenapi.json.well-known/x402.well-known/agent-card.jsondiscovery
Your first call
curl https://api.gitbeacon.dev/v1/brief