Contribution Ethics SKILL.md skillA
Contribution Ethics from costajohnt/oss-autopilot is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add costajohnt/oss-autopilot/Contribution Ethics@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- costajohnt/oss-autopilot
- Path
skills/contribution-ethics/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Apr 25, 2026
- Size
- 3,096 bytes
- Repository stars
- 28
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when writing commits, PRs, or comments that will be visible to OSS maintainers — it covers the no-AI-attribution rule, AI-tell avoidance in writing, and the situations where a human contributor should respond instead of the AI tool. Sibling to oss-contribution and pr-etiquette.
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
# Contribution Ethics How to behave ethically when contributing to OSS as an AI-assisted contributor: attribution, AI-tell avoidance in maintainer-visible writing, and knowing when to defer to a human. ## Attribution ### Do - Attribute work properly (co-authors for human pair work) - Give credit to human contributors in PR descriptions - Share knowledge with other contributors ### Don't Add AI attribution to commits or PRs: - No `Co-Authored-By: Claude` trailers - No "Generated with Claude Code" in PR descriptions - No robot emoji attributions - No mentions of AI assistance in comments These rules are absolute. Contributions submitted to upstream repos must appear as solely from the human contributor unless that repo's contribution guidelines explicitly require AI disclosure. Other related "don't"s: - Claim credit for others' work - Submit low-quality PRs just for contribution graphs - Spam repos with trivial changes ## AI-Tell Avoidance in Writing AI-generated comments have recognizable patterns. Avoid these in any maintainer-visible writing (PR descriptions, review responses, issue comments): …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add costajohnt/oss-autopilot/Contribution Ethics@sha256:db692ecf276ce24aThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_7bduaukf3ha5xpav)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 25, 2026.
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 (3096 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
costajohnt/oss-autopilot · 28 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7bduaukf3ha5xpav GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=costajohnt/oss-autopilot/Contribution Ethics GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/db692ecf276ce24a759b4152b58adc2011b4692fa1c1f9205b0378c9aaeb3ceb
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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