Orbita

Daily competitive intelligence dashboard for the Hermes Agent ecosystem.

Orbita tracks GitHub repositories and news sources in the AI agent space, runs daily checks via GitHub Actions, and publishes a live dashboard on Vercel — no database required.

Live: https://orbita-three-liard.vercel.app

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Features

• Star & fork trends — line charts across tracked repos over time
• Commit activity — daily commit volume per repository
• Release tracking — new version tags detected automatically
• News feed — RSS and HTML sources scraped and surfaced daily
• Hermes skill — install as a /competitive-intel slash command in Hermes Agent
• Zero database — findings stored as JSON files, versioned in git

How it works

GitHub Actions (daily 07:00 UTC)
        │
        ▼
  check.py runs
  ├── GitHub API  →  stars, forks, commits, releases
  └── RSS / HTML  →  news headlines
        │
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  findings saved to dashboard/data/findings/YYYY-MM-DD.json
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  committed & pushed to repo
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  Vercel rebuilds dashboard automatically

Stack

Layer	Tech
Dashboard	Next.js 16, Tailwind CSS, Recharts
Data collection	Python 3, GitHub API, RSS parsing
Automation	GitHub Actions (cron)
Hosting	Vercel
Agent skill	Hermes Agent (SKILL.md)

Hermes skill usage

# Install
cp -r hermes/competitive-intel ~/.hermes/skills/

# Add targets
/competitive-intel add github NousResearch/hermes-agent
/competitive-intel add github openai/openai-python
/competitive-intel add news https://openai.com/news/rss.xml

# Check now
/competitive-intel check

# List all targets
/competitive-intel list

Self-hosting

1. Fork this repo

2. Add a GitHub secret

GH_TOKEN — a fine-grained personal access token with Contents: Read & Write on this repo (for the workflow to push findings).

3. Deploy to Vercel

• Root directory: . (repo root)
• No environment variables needed

4. Edit targets

Edit hermes/competitive-intel/templates/targets.json and push. The next daily run picks up the new targets automatically.

Project structure

orbita/
├── .github/workflows/
│   └── daily-check.yml          # runs check.py, commits findings
├── app/                         # Next.js App Router pages
├── components/                  # StarChart, RepoCards, NewsFeed, ...
├── data/findings/               # JSON findings (auto-committed daily)
├── lib/                         # data loading utilities
├── public/
├── hermes/competitive-intel/
│   ├── SKILL.md                 # Hermes skill definition
│   └── scripts/
│       ├── check.py             # data collection
│       └── report.py           # (optional) Discord report
├── package.json
└── next.config.ts

License

MIT