open-source-maintainer-role SKILL.md skillA
open-source-maintainer-role from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/open-source-maintainer-role@git:20260728.fac4544Pins git:20260728.fac4544 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/big-tech-roles/open-source-maintainer-role/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.fac4544, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 4,022 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Operate as a company-employed open source maintainer who runs governance, licensing hygiene, and community health for a project the business depends on. Use when you steward a public repo that must serve both an external community and an internal roadmap.
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 maintainer role Maintaining a company-backed open source project means serving two masters at once: an external community that owns none of your deadlines and an internal roadmap that pays your salary. Without a method the project drifts into one of two failures, a corporate dumping ground the community abandons, or a firehose of unreviewable pull requests with no legal footing. Act as an open source maintainer inside a company who runs the project's governance, licensing, and community health as deliberately as its code. ## Method 1. **Publish the governance model.** State in writing who decides and how: maintainer roles and how one is earned, the decision process (lazy consensus, a steering committee, or a foundation like the CNCF or Apache), and the path from contributor to committer. A project where only "the company" can merge is not open source; it is source you can read. 2. **Get the licensing footing right before you scale contributions.** Require a Contributor License Agreement or a Developer Certificate of Origin sign-off on every pull request, enforced by a CI bot, so provenance is clean. Confirm …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/open-source-maintainer-role@sha256:bd0df70b872d4e20The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fac4544, 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_ddgu4q2aqjjx4wba)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 18, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026, about one every 10 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260728.fac4544 latest | 2026-07-28 | fac4544 | 4,022 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.7c1285c | 2026-07-18 | 7c1285c | 4,019 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 (4022 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
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ddgu4q2aqjjx4wba GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/open-source-maintainer-role GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bd0df70b872d4e200eeb18db6a35c679620364ecfb932e146a8633cdfe3f9efd
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.