A meme earned 6000 stars: ASu-skills turned "Su-god résumé packaging" into a serious job-hunting plugin

On the afternoon of Aug 12, 2026, Nanjing developer Hisn00w, who had at most 12 stars before, created a GitHub repo called ASu-skills. The first version's invocation phrase was "I want to Su-ify". 44 minutes later the first issue arrived: "Wow, it's blowing up!" Three days later it had 749 stars; by Nov 6 it had 6,257 stars, 119 PRs and 62 contributors. Functionally it was about the same as a dozen Chinese job-hunting skills that already existed, which topped out at 724 stars. Its extra order of magnitude came from a meme, a timely pivot and campus recruiting season.

What it is

A Chinese job-hunting plugin pack installed into AI coding tools, with 9 entry points: /contributor finds real open-source issues for you to submit PRs to; /evidence-recap reconstructs your AI coding conversations into an evidence chain showing "what you did"; /project-guide organizes a project into a study guide and interview Q&A; /great-resume edits your résumé; /make-resume produces an editable HTML résumé (18 templates, exportable to PDF and LaTeX); /job-match checks fit against a job description; /job-apply fills recruiting-site application forms in your already-logged-in browser via Kimi WebBridge and stops before submitting; /interview predicts interview questions and follow-ups; /offer tracks campus recruitment progress.

There are 8 places to install it: Codex, Claude Code, DeepSeek Harness Desktop, TraeWork, Qoder, Cursor, OpenCode, WorkBuddy. The Chinese tools are all covered, so students in China can use it without a VPN.

The meme

"ASu" is "阿酥". The Xiaohongshu AI tech blogger "阿酥在coding" was exposed by netizens in summer 2026 for résumé "packaging": a degree from a US bachelor's program, a frontend internship rewritten as AI algorithm and Agent core contributor. In August it was also reported he had joined Meituan's Beidou program at a package of about ¥2M a year. Tencent News published "Understanding ASu, Becoming ASu" on Aug 16, Zhihu had a question "How do you evaluate AI blogger ASu-in-coding joining Meituan?", and there were long posts in X's Chinese-language community.

ASu-skills launched right when the gossip was at its peak. The first README's title was "Chinese Résumé Packaging and HR Opening Self-Introduction Skill", and the acknowledgments said the content was compiled from public shares by ASu and another blogger, "Hi Mr Lonely". /make-resume's default template is still called "ASu-style high-density technical résumé" to this day, as the README says: if you want "ASu's résumé", use this one.

Almost everyone who showed up on day one came for the gossip. In chronological order, the first issues were: "Wow, it's blowing up!", "May I ask if using this gets me into Meituan's Beidou program?", "I'll study it line by line 🫡", "Can't keep a straight face", "Even keeping a straight face is impressive". About 2.5 hours after the repo was created, @MaxForAI on X (a LobeHub member who says he has 40k followers on Xiaohongshu) posted: "Amazing, someone made the Su-god into a Skill 🤣 Go use it, folks, and you'll get a million-yuan package (I'm serious)". On Aug 15, @QingQ77 posted a feature explainer, and around Aug 16 CSDN and Zhihu also published analysis articles.

How the meme became a product

A meme alone usually stops drawing eyes within a few days. ASu-skills got about 750 stars in its first 3 days; the bulk of its growth, from about 750 to 5,456 (10-09), came over the following seven weeks. The author got two things right during that stretch.

First, play along with netizens and turn the joke into real features. On the second day, someone opened an issue titled "Suggestion: add /contributor, automatically turning your GitHub contribution graph into a résumé project entry": automatically find documentation projects to fix typos in, automatically submit PRs, and after merge generate a sentence like "Contributed to multiple open-source projects…" to put on a résumé, ending with "The above was generated by ChatGPT". This was clearly satire. But the same day, the person who opened the issue submitted a PR building /contributor, and the author merged it that day. It is now the first of the 9 entry points, except the rules were changed: show the diff first, submit only after the user confirms each item, and unmerged PRs can only be described as "submitted".

Another user submitted two parody PRs, titled "Led the development of the ASu-skills open-source license governance system", with the body "As Owner leading the compliance refactor... a single-file change achieved full-chain License coverage of 100%, a milestone achievement". The author merged them too. The README still ends with the line "The open-source governance system was built under community Owner leadership, achieving full-chain License coverage of 100%".

Second, they scrubbed the smell of fakery. On the afternoon the repo was created, one skill was split into three, later expanding to 9 entry points. The README added a "Fact boundaries" section: keep real job titles, companies, dates and degrees; use "led", "lead" or "Owner" only with evidence; don't pass off AI-written code as your own skill. There's also a bolded warning banning bulk applications and harassing HR. That way, people who came for the joke find it fun, and people who really job-hunt feel safe using and sharing it.

Where users come from

The meme only carried the first week. What kept it going after that was these:

• Campus recruiting season. 9, October is when China's campus hiring peaks. I couldn't find the specific post that drove the 09-07 peak; my inference is that the season itself was the main driver.
• Contributors became the distribution channel. The product itself teaches people to "make real open-source contributions and put them on your resume," and it is a Chinese-language repo with several thousand stars, so students submitting PRs can add a line to their CVs. 119 PRs, 103 merged, 62 contributors; Qoder support, OpenCode adaptation and the macOS browser path were all contributed by outsiders. Each contributor takes it back to their circle and spreads it again. Issues include people saying outright "I want to get on the Contributors list" and asking "Can ASu be added as a contributor?"
• Aggregator sites listed it automatically. Skill directories like skills.sh, skillsmp, claudepluginhub, DeepWiki and dsh.so (with a security badge) all indexed it, bringing long-tail traffic.

The fork-to-star ratio is about 5.2%, not high. But skills install through plugins, so forking isn't needed, and there are 100 merged PRs, so the stars don't look manufactured. I didn't check how far it spread within Xiaohongshu.

Who it's competing with

Before it, a dozen or so Chinese job-search skills already existed, the top one with 724 stars. /job-match, interview follow-ups and "evidence-driven" were all done by others too. ASu pulled ahead by an order of magnitude, and the difference was all distribution: riding a viral meme, landing in campus season, being installable on domestic agents, and having contributors spread it, all four at once. The copycat repo appeared the next day and reached at most 425 stars: the meme only rewards the first one.

Is there room left in this wave?

This slot for Chinese job-search skills is now taken, campus season is winding down, and ASu's own growth rate is falling. The ASu meme won't go viral a second time. What's still open is applying the same playbook to other Chinese audiences around their seasonal milestones: postgraduate entrance exams (December exams), civil service exams (national exam from late November to December), and study-abroad applications (autumn-winter deadlines). I haven't seen skills with several thousand stars in these areas (I didn't check in detail), but there's no ready-made meme to ride either. Also, the motivation of "contributing PRs to strengthen your resume" is unique to job-hunting and wouldn't carry over to exam prep or civil service.

If it were you

One-line verdict: stop building Chinese job-search skills, that slot has an owner; what's worth learning is the playbook of "cold-start on a hot meme, then rebrand as a legitimate tool," ready for the next meme.

• Best for: people who watch the Chinese AI scene (X's Chinese community, Xiaohongshu, Zhihu) and can ship an installable skill in an afternoon, ideally knowing one or two accounts willing to repost memes.
• Not for: people who want to slowly polish a fully featured job-search tool and wait to be discovered. get-job.skill and JobOK did it that way and stalled at a few hundred stars.
• How to do it: when a public figure or incident goes viral, turn its "methodology" into a skill you can install directly, with the name and trigger phrase riding the meme; on day one, split it into several proper entry points and add a "fact boundaries" and anti-abuse note; take playful issue requests and do the feasible ones the same day, and merge the parody PRs when they're acceptable. Make installation available across Codex, Claude Code, and domestic tools like Trae, Qoder, WorkBuddy and DeepSeek all at once.
• How to acquire users: on the day the repo is created, find AI accounts on X's Chinese community and Xiaohongshu and post in a meme-friendly tone; in the second week, submit to directories like skills.sh and claudepluginhub; write a clear contributing guide so that "submitting a PR" itself becomes something users want.
• When to be early: a meme's window is measured in 48 hours. ASu-skills launched on the day the controversy was fermenting, and the copycat that came out the next day only reached 1/15 of its stars. For seasonal topics, launch three to four weeks before the milestone: the civil service exam is late November, postgraduate exams are late December, and right now that's getting late.
• Signs you misread it: if within 48 hours no major account reposts it and no one in the issues plays along with the meme, the meme isn't big enough or you aren't the first. If it doesn't reach a few dozen stars in a week after the core features are complete, these people aren't on GitHub; stop adding features and change the topic.