jsumners/prior-inventions-list

When you start a new job, your employer may ask you to sign an agreement listing all the inventions or side projects you created before your first day. This is meant to clarify what you already own so the company doesn't later claim rights to your personal work. prior-inventions-list is a tool that automates the tedious process of compiling this list by pulling together all of your public GitHub repositories into a clean document you can hand over. Using it is straightforward. You provide the tool with a personal access token for your GitHub account, and it fetches a list of your repositories. It then formats that list into a text file using a popular, simple markup style. From there, you can review the generated list, add any extra context you want, and convert it into a final document. This project is aimed at developers, makers, or hobbyists who are signing a new employment contract and need to formally disclose their prior work. Anyone with a scattered history of personal coding projects would find this useful. For example, if you have dozens of repositories from weekend experiments or past freelance gigs, this tool saves you the time of manually copying and pasting each project name and link into a spreadsheet or word processor. The notable thing about this project is its extreme simplicity and reliance on other standard tools. It does one small job, fetching repository data and formatting it, and then steps out of the way. To turn the final list into a polished document, you need to use an external document converter, which means you keep full manual control over the editing and formatting process. The documentation is sparse, so it assumes you are comfortable following basic command-line steps and already know how to edit text files.