gh-achievements: check your GitHub achievements progress

Your GitHub trophy case: every achievement, your tier and how far the next one is, verified against GitHub's own data.

gh-achievements.vercel.app/check · no install · or use the CLI below

Two ways to check

On the web	In your terminal
gh-achievements.vercel.app/check	gh extension install nmloc/gh-achievements then gh achievements
Type any username, or sign in with GitHub to include private repositories. The token is used for one check and revoked at once; nothing is stored. Organizations that restrict third-party apps hide their private repositories until an admin approves gh-achievements.	Reuses your gh auth login, so it counts everything that login can see, including organizations that restrict third-party apps.

What it shows

gh-achievements is a GitHub CLI extension and a website that list all GitHub profile achievements (Pull Shark, Starstruck, Pair Extraordinaire, Galaxy Brain, Quickdraw, YOLO, Public Sponsor, Finishing Touch and the retired ones) and show your tier and progress to the next one.

• Every badge, not just yours. All 15 known achievements (8 earnable, 2 switched off by GitHub, 2 retired, 3 for GitHub staff) and 6 profile highlights such as Pro.
• How far to the next tier. Your count against the next threshold, such as 72 / 128 to x3 for Pull Shark.
• Checked against GitHub. Tiers, unlock dates and milestones come from GitHub's own badge history, and every number is labelled official, calibrated or counted.
• No stored token. The CLI reuses your gh auth login and talks only to GitHub. The web checker signs in with GitHub, uses the token for one check and revokes it.

Install

You need the GitHub CLI (brew install gh, winget install GitHub.cli, or another installer).

gh extension install nmloc/gh-achievements

Upgrade with gh extension upgrade achievements. Prebuilt binaries for macOS, Linux and Windows (amd64 and arm64) come from Releases, so no Go toolchain is needed.

Usage

gh achievements              # the account you are signed in to with gh
gh achievements torvalds     # anyone's public profile
gh achievements --json       # machine-readable, for scripts
gh achievements --all        # also the archive, every highlight and each badge's notes
gh achievements --no-color   # plain text (NO_COLOR is honoured too)

Not signed in to gh? It still works with public data and tells you what a login would add.

All GitHub achievements

Earnable

You can still earn these.

Badge	Achievement	How to earn it	Tiers
	Pull Shark	Open pull requests that get merged gh achievements: count, checked against GitHub's milestones	Default Bronze Silver Gold 2 16 128 1024
	Starstruck	Create a repository that gets stars gh achievements: stars of the repository GitHub names	Default Bronze Silver Gold 16 128 512 4096
	Pair Extraordinaire	Coauthor commits on merged pull requests gh achievements: official tier (no public counting rule)	Default Bronze Silver Gold 1 10 24 48
	Galaxy Brain	Have discussion answers accepted gh achievements: count of accepted answers	Default Bronze Silver Gold 2 8 16 32
	Quickdraw	Close an issue or pull request within 5 minutes of opening it gh achievements: earned or not (official)	Default 1
	YOLO	Merge a pull request without a review gh achievements: earned or not (official)	Default 1
	Public Sponsor	Sponsor someone publicly through GitHub Sponsors gh achievements: earned or not (official)	Default 1
	Finishing Touch	Get pull requests that improve GitHub's UI quality merged gh achievements: official tier (no public counting rule)	Default Bronze Silver Gold 1 4 16 32

Switched off by GitHub

GitHub tested these and switched them off; nobody can earn them now.

Badge	Achievement	How to earn it	Tiers
	Heart On Your Sleeve	React to something on GitHub with a ❤️ emoji gh achievements: earned or not	Default Bronze Silver Gold ? 16 128 ?
	Open Sourcerer	Have pull requests merged in several public repositories gh achievements: earned or not	Default Bronze Silver Gold ? 8 16 64

Retired

No longer awarded. Profiles that have them keep them.

Badge	Achievement	How to earn it	Tiers
	Arctic Code Vault Contributor	Code in a repository of the 2020 GitHub Archive Program gh achievements: earned or not	Default 1
	Mars 2020 Contributor	Code in a repository used by the Mars 2020 Helicopter Mission gh achievements: earned or not	Default 1

GitHub staff only

Only GitHub staff could earn these.

Badge	Achievement	How to earn it	Tiers
	Proxima Pioneer	GitHub staff: contributed to the Proxima proof of concept gh achievements: earned or not	Default 1
	Proxima Staffshipper	GitHub staff: shipped the Proxima staffship instance gh achievements: earned or not	Default 1
	Proxima Staffuser	GitHub staff: your team was onboarded to Proxima gh achievements: earned or not	Default 1

Profile highlights it also reports: Developer Program Member, Security Bug Bounty Hunter, GitHub Campus Expert, GitHub Star, Pro, Security advisory credit.

Catalog last verified against live profiles on 2026-10-17.

How accurate is it?

Every number carries a label:

Label	Meaning
official	Read from GitHub's own profile pages: tier, unlock date, the pull request or repository behind each milestone.
calibrated	Counted through the GitHub API, then checked against a milestone GitHub itself names.
counted	Counted through the API, with nothing public to check it against.

GitHub keeps a history for each badge (the dialog you see when you click one on a profile). It names, for example, your 2nd, 16th and 128th merged pull request. gh-achievements reads that history, lists your merged pull requests in merge order, and checks that the two agree. For @torvalds, GitHub's 16th merged pull request is subsurface/subsurface#1506, and it is 16th in the API's list too: +0.

A tier GitHub granted is never contradicted. When GitHub's counting rule is not public, as for Pair Extraordinaire, the tool shows the official tier and no number, rather than one that is wrong. Details and known limits: How accurate is it?

FAQ

How do I check my GitHub achievements progress? Install with gh extension install nmloc/gh-achievements and run gh achievements.

Does it need a GitHub personal access token? No. It uses the credentials the GitHub CLI already stores (or GH_TOKEN). Without them it falls back to public data.

How many GitHub achievements are there? 15 are known: 8 earnable, 2 disabled, 2 retired and 3 internal to GitHub staff. See the table above.

Why don't my achievements show on my profile? They can be turned off under Settings → Public profile → Show Achievements on my profile. The tool says when a profile hides them.

Can it see private contributions? GitHub counts them, and its badge history lists them as "inaccessible". The tool counts what your gh login can see and calibrates the rest against GitHub's milestones.

How it compares

	gh-achievements	Achievement lists and guides	Web trackers
Lists every achievement	✅	✅	some
Shows your tier and progress	✅	❌	✅
Checks counts against GitHub's own history	✅	❌	❌
No personal access token to create	✅	n/a	usually ❌
CLI runs on your machine, no server of ours	✅	n/a	❌

JSON output

gh achievements --json prints the full report, for scripts, dashboards or a README card:

{
  "user": "torvalds",
  "achievementsHidden": false,
  "authenticated": true,
  "catalogVerified": "2026-10-17",
  "achievements": [
    {
      "slug": "pull-shark",
      "name": "Pull Shark",
      "kind": "earnable",
      "tiers": [2, 16, 128, 1024],
      "status": "earned",
      "officialTier": 2,
      "unlocked": "2017-01-17",
      "standing": { "tier": 2, "count": 72, "floor": 16, "target": 128, "remaining": 56, "isMax": false, "isAhead": false },
      "source": "calibrated"
    }
  ],
  "highlights": [{ "name": "Pro", "earned": false }]
}

The catalog alone is published as achievements.json.

Contributing

Spotted a new badge, or a count that looks wrong? Open an issue. See CONTRIBUTING.md for how the catalog, fixtures and site are built.

Like it?

If gh-achievements helped you, a ⭐ helps other people find it: star it on GitHub.

Credits

The catalog builds on the community's work: Schweinepriester/github-profile-achievements and drknzz/GitHub-Achievements.

License

MIT. gh-achievements is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by GitHub.