A personal productivity dashboard on top of GitHub: the PRs you opened and merged, how many were approved on the first review, how long they waited, your 6-week trends, and your assigned issues on a board you can drag to change their status. Plus repo and organization pulse, and Android home-screen widgets.
Issue cards show an Epic tag (GitHub issue type or epic label) and how many subtasks are done. Click a PR
or an issue to open its details in a side panel, loaded from GitHub when it opens: checks, size, reviews and
where it stands for your Silverback rate for a PR; status, labels, subtasks, description, linked PR and recent
activity for an issue. Drag the panel's left edge to resize it (it opens at a third of the screen and remembers
your width). Ctrl/Cmd-click still opens GitHub in a new tab.
There is no backend and no database. The app calls the GitHub GraphQL API straight from your device with your
token (stats.js). It keeps the last values on the device, so the dashboard and widgets still show something
when you're offline. Nothing is collected or processed on our side.
The key metric: the share of your PRs merged into develop in the period that were approved on the first review
(no "changes requested" before the first approval). It comes with a tier and a crest badge:
Code Monkey (0–29%), Merge Chimp (30–59%), Silverback (60–89%) and King of the Repo (90–100%).
It's shown for you, for the repository (all authors) and for the whole organization.
The period select (this week, this month, the last 10 or 30 working days, this quarter, overall) drives every number; the charts follow it too, one point per day (up to 2 weeks), per week (up to 24 weeks) or per month. The Team tab, open to everyone, shows: the team's rate, merged PRs, cycle time, review balance, things that need attention, and a sortable members table.
npm install
npm run devOpen the URL Vite prints and paste a personal access token on the welcome screen. A fine-grained token with
read access to Metadata, Pull requests, Issues and Projects is enough; add Projects write access to
move issues on the board. Then pick the organization and repository in the top bar. The token stays on the
device (Capacitor Preferences, which is localStorage in the browser). npm test checks the stats logic.
You need Android Studio and the Android SDK.
npm run androidThis builds the web app, syncs it into android/ and opens Android Studio. Run the app on a phone or emulator
and sign in once. Then long-press the home screen, open Widgets, find Silverback, and drag out
Silverback open PRs or Silverback organization. Each widget refetches on its own every 30 minutes
(Android's minimum) with the saved token, and keeps the last numbers when offline. Tap a widget to open the app.
The widget code is android/app/src/main/java/io/silverback/app/SilverbackWidget.java. Its colours follow the
system light or dark theme (res/values*/silverback_colors.xml).
A toolbar badge and a popup with your Silverback rate and crest, your stats, and a "Side-eye" list of what's waiting on you; the toolbar icon wears your tier's crest and counts the PRs waiting on you. It refreshes every 15 minutes in the background.
There is nothing to build. Open edge://extensions (or chrome://extensions), turn on Developer mode, click
Load unpacked and pick the extension/ folder. Click the Silverback icon, paste your token, and pick the
organization and repository.
The stats logic (extension/lib/stats.js) and the crest (extension/lib/crest.js) live inside the extension so
it loads as-is; the web app imports them from there, so both always compute the same numbers.
cli.js runs the same stats code from the terminal, printing JSON. It needs GITHUB_TOKEN (or GH_TOKEN). Three commands write to GitHub: move-issue (board column), comment and request-review; the rest only read.
node cli.js stats --repo owner/name --period 30 # also: team, history, pr, issue, orgs, repos, my-issues, attention
node cli.js move-issue --repo owner/name --number 42 --status "In progress"
node cli.js helpnode cli.js mcp serves the same commands as MCP tools over stdio. For Claude Code:
claude mcp add silverback -e GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_... -- node /path/to/cli.js mcp.github/workflows/pages.yml builds the app and publishes dist/ on every push to main. In the repository's
Settings › Pages, the source must be GitHub Actions.
- iOS WidgetKit: needs a Mac, plus an App Group shared between the app and the widget.
- Dragging issues on touch screens (the Android app): drag and drop is mouse-only for now.
- Organizations with more than 100 repositories, and lists over 100 PRs or issues: only the first 100 count.