# Source developers through the open-source work they publish. Active in your stack this year Open-source sourcing finds engineers through the code they publish, not their job titles. With Agentik, your AI finds active projects on GitHub, reads the projects, contributors and their activity through ScrapeCreators, and finds work emails with Icypeas. - For: Technical recruiters and engineering managers - Providers: 3 (GitHub, ScrapeCreators and Icypeas), 5 tools - Example (2 repository searches, 5 projects read, 15 developers’ profiles and contributions, 10 emails found): at most $0.26, computed from the live catalog - Updated: 2026-10-10 ## Each provider does one part No single provider covers this job. Through Agentik your AI calls each one for its part, from one connection and one prepaid balance. - **GitHub** (1 tool, free): Active repositories in your stack, ranked by stars. - **ScrapeCreators** (3 tools, at most $0.07): Each project’s details, contributors’ profiles and their contribution history. - **Icypeas** (1 tool, at most $0.19): Work emails for the shortlist. ## Give this to your agent ```text Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: developer sourcing from github. Source developers from open source. First ask me for the technologies, the kind of projects and the location if it matters. Find active projects with github/search-repositories and read the five best with scrapecreators/get-v1-github-repository. Read 15 contributors’ profiles with scrapecreators/get-v1-github-user and their contributions this year with scrapecreators/get-v1-github-user-contributions. Find work emails for the ten best with icypeas/find-emails-batch. Finish with a shortlist (developer, projects, activity, location, email) and a message for each that mentions their work. Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged. ``` ## You provide - The technologies - The kind of projects - Location, if it matters ## What you get: a developer shortlist with emails - Developers active in your stack - Their projects and activity this year - Work emails - A message that mentions their work ## How to source developers from GitHub in Claude or ChatGPT Prices are the most each call can reserve for this example: 2 repository searches, 5 projects read, 15 developers’ profiles and contributions, 10 emails found. ### 1. Find active projects GitHub search finds active repositories in your stack, ranked by stars, and ScrapeCreators reads the five best projects. - [GitHub repository search](/tools/github/search-repositories.md) `github/search-repositories` (GitHub, 2 searches): free - [GitHub repository](/tools/scrapecreators/get-v1-github-repository.md) `scrapecreators/get-v1-github-repository` (ScrapeCreators, 5 projects): at most $0.0094 ### 2. Read the contributors ScrapeCreators reads fifteen contributors’ profiles and their contributions this year. - [GitHub user](/tools/scrapecreators/get-v1-github-user.md) `scrapecreators/get-v1-github-user` (ScrapeCreators, 15 developers): at most $0.03 - [GitHub contributions](/tools/scrapecreators/get-v1-github-user-contributions.md) `scrapecreators/get-v1-github-user-contributions` (ScrapeCreators, 15 developers): at most $0.03 ### 3. Find emails Icypeas finds work emails for the ten best. - [Icypeas email finder in batch](/tools/icypeas/find-emails-batch.md) `icypeas/find-emails-batch` (Icypeas, 10 people): at most $0.19 ### 4. Write the messages Your AI writes the shortlist and a message for each that mentions their work. Example total: at most $0.26. Each call is billed for measured usage; unused reservations are released. ## Ask it your way - Find Rust developers who contribute to vector database projects. - Who are the most active contributors to this repository this year? - Build a shortlist of TypeScript developers who maintain popular libraries, with emails. - Write a message to each developer that mentions their project. ## Why through Agentik - GitHub search, profiles, contributions and emails come from three providers through one connection. - GitHub search is free; emails found are the largest share of the price. ## Good to know - GitHub activity shows public work only; many great engineers work in private repositories. - Reach out about their work and respect people who say no. ## When to use something else For a database of every developer’s skills, use a technical sourcing platform. This playbook finds people through the work they publish. ## Developer sourcing from GitHub: questions ### What about engineers with private work? They are invisible here. Public activity shows public work only. ### How should I reach out? About their work, briefly, and respect anyone who says no. ### What does the example cost? At most $0.26, reserved before each call and settled at the measured usage. ## Keep going - [Candidate sourcing](/candidate-sourcing.md): People in the role today, their full profiles, the open-source work behind their names, and verified emails for the shortlist. - [Job post and salary benchmark](/job-post-and-salary.md): Similar roles posted on LinkedIn and Google Jobs with the skills and salary ranges they show, recent salary reports, then a job post that stands out. - [Talent market map](/talent-market-map.md): How many people hold the role in five cities, how many companies are hiring for it there, the salaries posted, all converted to one currency. - [Developer tools for your agent](/tools/dev.md) - [B2B data and enrichment tools for your agent](/tools/enrichment.md) [All playbooks](/playbooks.md) · [Connection guides](/docs/clients.md) · [Billing](/docs/billing.md) --- [HTML page](/open-source-developer-sourcing) · [Agent index](/llms.txt)