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Adjacent is a GitHub Action that discovers and inserts a list of related repositories into your README based on shared GitHub topics.

Perfect for discovery, organization, and letting your users explore similar tools you’ve built.


  • 🔎 Finds related repositories by topic similarity
  • 🧠 Ranks and inserts up to 5 adjacent repos into your README.md
  • 🔄 Runs on a schedule or manual trigger
  • 💬 Ideal for portfolios, developer tools, and curated ecosystems

Here's a repository that uses this GitHub Action: https://github.com/notnews/fox_news_transcripts/

Save the following to .github/workflows/adjacent.yml:

name: Find Adjacent Repositories on: schedule: - cron: '0 5 * * 0' # Every Sunday at 5am UTC workflow_dispatch: jobs: recommend-repos: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Checkout repository uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Adjacent Repositories Recommender uses: gojiplus/[email protected] with: token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # ✅ Pass the required token - name: Commit and push changes run: | git config --global user.name "github-actions" git config --global user.email "[email protected]" git add README.md git commit -m "Update adjacent repositories [automated]" || echo "No changes to commit" git push

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