A One-Command Pre-Flight Checklist for Developers: astro-tasks

Before beginning work, I used to open three tabs: GitHub notifications, the WakaTime dashboard, and a git status check across local repositories. To streamline this process, I developed a tool called astro-tasks, which consolidates these functions into a single terminal command. By installing astro-tasks with "pip install astro-tasks", developers can then execute "astro check" to receive a comprehensive overview of their GitHub notifications and open pull requests, coding statistics for the past week (including total hours, daily average, top projects, and languages), and a local repository health scan (branch, dirty state, and unpushed commits).

The tool also offers specific subcommands like "astro scan" for repositories only, "astro log" for coding stats, and "astro config" for configuration customization. For more detailed data, "astro check --json" emits the information in machine-readable JSON format, allowing for integration with other tools. However, there are some prerequisites to consider: astro-tasks relies on the GitHub CLI (gh), so users need to authenticate with "gh auth login".

Additionally, coding statistics require a WakaTime configuration file at "~/.wakatime.cfg". Astro-tasks is written in Python 3.8 or later, released under the MIT license, and can be found in its GitHub repository at https://github.com/3ni8ma/astro-tasks. The developers are open to feedback, particularly regarding the JSON schema and support for multi-machine WakaTime setups.