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I Built a GitHub Achievement Automation Toolkit (CLI + Local Dashboard)

DEV Community·Raja Irfan Ahmed·6 months ago
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Have you ever looked at a GitHub profile and wondered how people get badges like Pull Shark, Galaxy Brain, and Quickdraw?? If so, this post is for you.

I created a toolkit that automates GitHub achievement tasks. You can use it from your terminal or a local browser dashboard. No cloud, no third-party service; your tokens stay on your machine.

What It Does

The toolkit handles the repetitive GitHub actions that trigger achievement milestones

Pair Extraordinaire — co-authored commits on merged PRs (tiers: 1 / 10 / 24 / 48)

Pull Shark — merged pull requests (tiers: 2 / 16 / 128 / 1024)

Galaxy Brain — accepted answers in Discussions (tiers: 2 / 8 / 16 / 32)

Quickdraw — close an issue within 5 minutes (single tier)

YOLO — merge a PR without a code review (single tier)

Starstruck — star milestones on one repository (tiers: 16 / 128 / 512 / 4096)

Public Sponsor — verifies your public sponsorship status

You run it from the CLI or the dashboard. It checks your GitHub REST rate limit first.…

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