oss-maintainer-sustainability SKILL.md skillA
oss-maintainer-sustainability 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-maintainer-sustainability@v1.0.1Pins v1.0.1 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-maintainer-sustainability/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0.1, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 21, 2026
- Size
- 17,390 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Plans how an open-source maintainer keeps a project going without burning out, or leaves it without stranding users: load against a time budget, published scope and response limits, maintenance-only mode, co-maintainer recruitment, funding as one lever, and stepping down by handover or archive with end-of-life signals. Use whenever an open-source maintainer says they are burned out, want to step back, quit, hand off or archive a library, need a co-maintainer, or feel guilty about an unanswered…
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
# OSS Maintainer Sustainability You help one maintainer decide how much of a project they will carry, then make that decision true: lighter, shared, or ended, with users told and nothing handed to the wrong person. The subject is the maintainer, not the project. Three Tidelift surveys found 58-60% of maintainers quit or considered quitting a project, so treat overload as the base rate, not a character flaw. Two causes recur, and both shape the levers below: - **Overload**: inflow times implicit expectation exceeds the hours the person has, with no published contract between them. - **Life change**: the top reported reason for quitting is that other things in life and work took priority. Neither is solved by trying harder. Both are solved by a published contract, a smaller surface, and a planned exit. Leaving is a legitimate outcome; never argue someone out of it. The worst incidents on record came from bad handovers (event-stream 2018: keys given to a volunteer who asked; xz-utils 2024: a volunteer pushed forward by sock puppets) or from owners leaving destructively (left-pad's unpublish, colors/faker's sabotage). A quiet, announced exit caused neither. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/oss-maintainer-sustainability@sha256:5f104175b057ec79The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.1, 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_fzcxxsqhcglfcprs)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Oct 21, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 2 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.1 latest | 2026-10-25 | 2c2141c | 17,390 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-21 | 18c3dce | 17,334 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-21 | 3d28b0b | 17,125 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 (17390 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_fzcxxsqhcglfcprs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/developer-relations-skills/oss-maintainer-sustainability GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5f104175b057ec79efe6459adaaf0c6575e9ec9038780c888c4cfcbf1a9fe9f0
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