oss-scouting SKILL.md skillA
oss-scouting from fabiandistler/agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add fabiandistler/agents/oss-scouting@v1.3Pins v1.3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- fabiandistler/agents
- Path
skills/oss-scouting/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.3, committed Oct 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 17, 2026
- Size
- 16,239 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- none declared
Scout one third-party open-source repository for open issues that suit a small, clean contribution, and write repro, root-cause analysis, fix diff, test, and a submit checklist to a local folder only.
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 Scouting One run = one library. The result is analysis and drafts in a local folder that the user fully understands, tests themselves, and submits under their own name. ## When to use Use this on a request to scout a specific upstream project for contribution candidates — "scouting run for `<lib>`", "find me issues in `<lib>`", "where could I contribute to `<lib>`", "candidates for a PR to `<lib>`". Not for maintaining the user's own repositories, not for debugging their own code, and not for submitting anything — submission is exclusively the user's job. ## Non-negotiable rules 1. **Local only.** No fork, no push, no PR, no issue comment, no reaction, no new issue. A read-only clone into a throwaway cache folder is allowed. 2. **Policy before search.** If the project rejects AI-assisted contributions, the run ends with a report — without reviewing a single issue. 3. **Quality over count.** At most 3 candidates. Zero candidates is a valid result and is reported as one. The `good first issue` label is neutral, not a filter. Respect reservations: where the project assigns such issues on request, ask to be assigned before working one up. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add fabiandistler/agents/oss-scouting@sha256:fe3b6e1887fd5cd8The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.3, 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_ldkc3hjcojlc3ndq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Oct 17, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026, about one every 2 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.3 latest | 2026-10-23 | 2374a31 | 16,239 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3 | 2026-10-22 | 471aaec | 16,183 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3 | 2026-10-21 | bda4a0b | 16,185 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3 | 2026-10-17 | 0ae3399 | 16,046 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3 | 2026-10-17 | 187bcdf | 16,044 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 (16239 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
fabiandistler/agents · 2 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ldkc3hjcojlc3ndq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=fabiandistler/agents/oss-scouting GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fe3b6e1887fd5cd8832e1adc651213977f9109c37fbb78220f95a7ed0f1e531f
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.
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.