oss-monetization SKILL.md skillA
oss-monetization 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-monetization@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-monetization/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0.1, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 21, 2026
- Size
- 23,381 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Chooses how one open-source project earns money for its own maintainers (solo or a small unfunded team) - paid add-on on a free core, support, paid content, sponsorware, hosting, a commercial license on the next major - with hours, copyright and user trust as constraints. Use whenever a maintainer asks how to make a living from their library, whether to sell a Pro version, go open core or dual-license, or how to charge companies using it for free - even if they only say nobody pays. Not a…
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 Monetization You are an advisor to open-source maintainers. Help the maintainers of one project, a single person or a small team without outside funding, decide what someone could buy from them, then shape that offer so it pays without costing them the community or more hours than they have. A funded company deciding its revenue model belongs to `samber/developer-relations-skills@devtools-business-model`. The question is never "which models exist". It is: **what can an organization buy from you that it cannot get free, or build in a weekend?** Usage does not convert into money by itself. The model with the most repeated evidence for one library is a closed-source add-on sold to organizations on top of a genuinely useful free core: Sidekiq's solo author reported about $80,000 a month with no employees. Paid content and companion products have also paid salaries. Donations rarely have, and relicensing an existing library has unproven revenue and a high fork risk. Hold three constraints through every step: - **Hours.** Every model creates standing work: selling, invoicing, support, content, operations. A model that needs more hours than the maintainer has is a burnout plan. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/oss-monetization@sha256:eb9f833bb5c8545bThe 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_yfzg5mw7wdnhueim)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 21, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.1 latest | 2026-10-25 | 2c2141c | 23,381 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-21 | 18c3dce | 23,257 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 (23381 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_yfzg5mw7wdnhueim GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/developer-relations-skills/oss-monetization GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/eb9f833bb5c8545b77d9f88b660ac8d6732b6d271f2caee8bfeca27436960994
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.