oss-contributor-onboarding

Designs and verifies the path a stranger walks to their first merged contribution on an open-source...

What this skill does for you

Designs and verifies the path a stranger walks to their first merged contribution on an open-source project - the CONTRIBUTING file, the good-first-issue queue, a clone-to-passing-tests command that works cold, and the first-pull-request review and recognition loop, scored against a blocking-plus-weighted rubric. Use whenever someone says "nobody contributes to my project", "write a CONTRIBUTING.md", "our good first issues get no takers", "first-time contributors disappear", "contributor onboarding", "first pull request experience", or "how do we get more open-source contributors" - even if they only complain about a lonely repo. Not triage-system design - use samber/developer-relations-skills@oss-issue-triage. Not governance or CLA choice.

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Who made it

Publishersamber

Repositorydeveloper-relations-skills

Installs586as of Sep 27, 2026

Use it with Edge

Set up Edge for me: read getedge.cc/SKILL.md and follow it. Then use Edge to load the oss-contributor-onboarding skill from samber/developer-relations-skills.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor.

Or read the skill source first.

Security evidence

Security state at 2026-09-30: reviewed. State definitions. This records static evidence for this revision; live load eligibility is checked again.

3 static scans, 0 counted findings. The listed scanners recorded the results shown for this package revision.

Scanner	Date	Result
Edge static checks	2026-09-27	Pass
Cisco skill-scanner	2026-09-27	Pass
Semgrep Edge rules	2026-09-27	Pass

Static scans check the code, not how well the skill works.

Scanner scope, raw findings and mirrored provider records

Edge static checks (Edge-run): edge-static/1.0.1. Scope: Static patterns for remote execution, credentials with network sends, obfuscation, prompt overrides, hidden Unicode, binaries and persistence. Revision: 693ce4f68cefbff4667f0e279d37bb4345763c9a. Raw findings: . Counted findings: .

Cisco skill-scanner (Edge-run): cisco-skill-scanner/2.1.0. Scope: Local static, YARA, pipeline and behavioral analyzers; no LLM or AI Defense analysis. Revision: 693ce4f68cefbff4667f0e279d37bb4345763c9a. Raw findings: . Counted findings: .

Semgrep Edge rules (Edge-run): semgrep/1.178.0+edge-rules.c15016a36fd3+offline-v1. Scope: Six Edge-authored static rules with Semgrep CE; offline execution and metrics disabled. Semgrep-maintained rules excluded. Revision: 693ce4f68cefbff4667f0e279d37bb4345763c9a. Raw findings: . Counted findings: .

Source and licence

Repository: https://github.com/samber/developer-relations-skills
Pinned skill file: View source at revision
Revision: 693ce4f68cefbff4667f0e279d37bb4345763c9a
Package hash: sha256:4db4016f9aa47384b4e635fe5bc96bf60aaa47f67e84d813f4a458952727c533
Licence: MIT