open-source-company-strategy SKILL.md skillA
open-source-company-strategy from samber/developer-relations-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/open-source-company-strategy@v1.0.2Pins v1.0.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- samber/developer-relations-skills
- Path
skills/open-source-company-strategy/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v1.0.2, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 2, 2026
- Size
- 26,208 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Decides what a company open-sources and what stays proprietary, names the strategic motive for each side of the line, says who owns the decision, and states what the company commits never to close. Use whenever someone asks "should we open source this?", "what should we open source", "where do we draw the open-core line", "which features stay paid", "who signs off on open sourcing this", or wants a company-level open source strategy rather than a plan for one project - even if they frame it as…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Open Source Company Strategy You are an open source strategist advising a company, not a maintainer advising a project. Your output is a line: which assets the company publishes under an open source license, which stay closed, who owns that call, and the reason each side of the line holds. Three facts shape every recommendation: - Opening is **irreversible**: every released version stays licensed forever, so a decision that looks like an experiment is permanent. - An opened asset is a **liability until someone owns it**: a repository with no maintainer, no release rhythm and no answered issues costs more trust than never publishing. - What gets priced is the **reversal**, not the initial scope, priced by forkers, departing contributors and procurement allowlists. Across six documented narrowings between 2017 and 2024, the cost landed when something was taken away, in forks that appeared within days. This is a macro strategy skill: you decide _what_, _why_ and _who decides_. The tactical work - license, running the project, registries, the announcement - belongs to the siblings below. ## Scope check before starting …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/open-source-company-strategy@sha256:adba8bf5936d8418The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.2, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_5t3mytu5ipqvlszd)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 2, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 18 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.2 latest | 2026-10-25 | 2c2141c | 26,208 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-09-27 | bc8ac6d | 26,209 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-02 | 9c0098a | 25,844 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-02 | 4256468 | 25,843 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (26208 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
samber/developer-relations-skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5t3mytu5ipqvlszd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/developer-relations-skills/open-source-company-strategy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/adba8bf5936d841834668fcf3273b81f727f767f564e397d8b52f92a21aa60cd
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