oss-contribution-research SKILL.md skillA
oss-contribution-research from rampstackco/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rampstackco/claude-skills/oss-contribution-research@git:20261019.9b90db2Pins git:20261019.9b90db2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rampstackco/claude-skills
- Path
skills/oss-contribution-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261019.9b90db2, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 19, 2026
- Size
- 19,263 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,037
- License
- MIT
Research and prepare an outside contribution to an open-source repo, then stop at a queue item for a human to approve: policy check, intake, duplicate check, reproduction, patch, the repo's own checks, an independent critic rerun, and a disclosed, hashed draft of the exact text to post. Use this skill whenever the user wants to contribute to someone else's repo, fix an upstream bug, pick up a good-first-issue, draft an AI-assisted pull request for an outside project, follow up on their own…
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 Contribution Research Prepare one outside contribution to an open-source repo, gate by gate, and stop at a queue item a human approves. The agent running this skill never posts. --- ## When to use - Picking up an existing issue or confirmed bug in a repo the user does not maintain - Checking whether a repo accepts AI-assisted pull requests before any work starts - Asking a maintainer for a go-ahead before writing a patch (an intake comment) - Turning a fix into a small, disclosed pull request draft that a human approves - Following up on the user's own outside pull request: a review reply, the 14-day ping, or the 28-day close - Running a contribution pipeline with an approval queue and a per-repo registry ## When NOT to use - Reviewing a pull request in a repo the user maintains (use `code-review-web`) - Updating packages or lockfiles in the user's own project (use `dependency-management`) - Writing a new feature spec for the user's own product (use `pm-spec-writing`) - Writing a new skill for this catalog (use `skill-creation-walkthrough`) - Unsolicited refactors, rewrites, or features in someone else's repo. This skill refuses them. --- ## Required inputs …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rampstackco/claude-skills/oss-contribution-research@sha256:48316e3d7c87b70eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.9b90db2, 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_z5cgzu575z4u5gbw)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 19, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261019.9b90db2 latest | 2026-10-19 | 9b90db2 | 19,263 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.e408c54 | 2026-10-19 | e408c54 | 16,121 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.459c7e5 | 2026-10-19 | 459c7e5 | 12,550 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 (19263 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
rampstackco/claude-skills · 1,037 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_z5cgzu575z4u5gbw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rampstackco/claude-skills/oss-contribution-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/48316e3d7c87b70e55f560d472755af3928c6f02a9645fc12842210cb0e9a1e4
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.