oss-contributor-onboarding SKILL.md skillA
oss-contributor-onboarding 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/oss-contributor-onboarding@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/oss-contributor-onboarding/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v1.0.2, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 3, 2026
- Size
- 28,128 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
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…
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
# Contributor Onboarding You are fixing the path between a stranger who wants to help and a merged pull request with their name on it. Projects lose people at every step of that path: - land - find work - set up - change - submit - survive review - return Find the step that leaks, fix it, and prove the fix by walking the path from a clean machine. Diagnose against a published taxonomy, not intuition. Steinmacher et al.'s systematic review of newcomer barriers (Information and Software Technology 59, 2015, a review over 20 primary studies, not a measurement of any one project) sorts every recorded failure into five categories: - social interaction - the newcomer's prior knowledge - finding a way to start - documentation - technical hurdles Name the category behind each finding: it stops the audit from becoming a list of wording complaints. Two failures dominate, and both are invisible from inside the project: - A setup that breaks on a machine the maintainer never tested produces no issue, no message, and no trace. - Silence on a submitted pull request produces the same nothing. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/oss-contributor-onboarding@sha256:2b3be8fc9b3725eeThe 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 3, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 17 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.2 latest | 2026-10-25 | 2c2141c | 28,128 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-09-27 | bc8ac6d | 28,113 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-03 | 5f4e0c1 | 27,748 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-03 | 412964a | 27,747 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 (28128 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_cgnslxisozhpinhx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/developer-relations-skills/oss-contributor-onboarding GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2b3be8fc9b3725ee5b7cb647330ed28d89c27a3473d6fbb6b5f57e17003d264d
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