A comprehensive collection of Agent Skills designed to facilitate onboarding for open source contributors and to assist maintainers in managing healthy repositories. This repository, titled awesome-oss-skills, provides a set of structured skills in the SKILL.md format that can be easily integrated using Vercel's skills CLI.

Available Skills

For Contributors

• repository-onboarding: Automatically summarizes essential documents such as README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, developer documentation, and templates, streamlining the onboarding process for new contributors.
• local-development-bootstrap: Extracts setup, build, test, and lint instructions from various documentation and configuration files, simplifying the local development environment setup.
• first-oss-contribution: Guides users in discovering open source projects from platforms like up-for-grabs.net or CodeTriage, helping them to identify a suitable project and navigate through their initial contribution process effectively.

For Maintainers

• maintainer-triage-and-review: Aids in the triage of issues, the review of pull requests, checks for documentation inconsistencies, and performs contributor onboarding audits, ensuring repository health and collaboration.
• maintainer-ci-and-release-health: Conducts audits on continuous integration coverage, release automation processes, and the consistency of distribution channels and agent-instruction files.
• project-bootstrap: Facilitates the initialization of new projects by selecting a license, scaffolding foundational documentation and CI, and identifying subsequent repository maintenance tasks.

Pull Request Workflows

• green-pr: Assists in resolving AI-generated code review comments, fixing any failing continuous integration checks, and addressing feedback from human reviews with user-approved responses to ensure pull requests are merged efficiently.

Repository Structure

The repository adheres to the Agent Skills package layout recommended by the Vercel skills CLI, which includes:

• skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md: Each skill is contained within its own directory.
• skills.sh.json: This file includes metadata for categorizing skills within skill catalogs.
• README.md: Provides an overview of the package and installation guidance.

Contributing

For those interested in contributing, detailed instructions can be found in the CONTRIBUTING.md file, along with guidelines for submitting new or updated skills. Agent maintenance protocols are outlined in AGENTS.md (note that CLAUDE.md is a symlink to this document).