OSS Contribution Best Practices SKILL.md skillA
OSS Contribution Best Practices 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/OSS Contribution Best Practices@v2.0.0Pins v2.0.0 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/oss-contribution/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v2.0.0, committed Oct 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 22, 2026
- Size
- 8,255 bytes
- Repository stars
- 28
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when the user is working on open source contributions, responding to maintainer feedback, writing PR descriptions, working on issues, following up on dormant PRs, or needs guidance on open source etiquette and best practices.
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 Contribution Best Practices **Reference:** Based on [opensource.guide](https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/) This skill is the index. The detail topics live in two sibling skills that load on demand: - **`pr-etiquette`** — responding to code review feedback, writing PR descriptions, dormant-PR follow-up cadence, PR quality checklist, communication etiquette. - **`contribution-ethics`** — AI attribution rules, AI-tell avoidance in maintainer-visible writing, when to defer to a human. Both are linked below. Use this file for the universal rules that apply to every contribution regardless of stage; jump to the sibling skills when you're at a specific stage in the cycle. ## Core Principles **Be a good open source citizen:** 1. Respect maintainers' time — they're often unpaid volunteers 2. Read contribution guidelines before contributing 3. Communicate clearly and professionally 4. Be patient — open source moves at its own pace 5. Give back to the community when you can ## Minimal Diff Discipline …
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How to install
mdr add costajohnt/oss-autopilot/OSS Contribution Best Practices@sha256:98516bd4d039bad0The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Apr 22, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 35 days.
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| v2.0.0 latest | 2026-10-12 | 330a604 | 8,255 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-07-21 | 928a8eb | 7,541 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-04-25 | 8a754ae | 6,317 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-04-25 | 211b7a8 | 13,754 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-04-22 | 2d44dbd | 12,923 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-04-22 | 9d31ec9 | 12,570 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
costajohnt/oss-autopilot · 28 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xdo5yetnjx5nipiv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=costajohnt/oss-autopilot/OSS Contribution Best Practices GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/98516bd4d039bad0f4ffe30bc9f80e7cd2e4ce62ce17808fcfe4b9c33f632f53
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