oss-contributor-onboarding

Turn first-time contributors into returning collaborators.

contributor onboarding

What it does

Diagnoses, repairs, and verifies an open-source project's path from newcomer interest to a merged contribution.

When to use it

Use when a project struggles to attract, onboard, review, or retain first-time open-source contributors.

Give it a project; it interviews the maintainer, audits and cold-tests the contribution path, then iteratively produces verified onboarding changes.

What you provide

This skill

project forge issue queue

Write

Publishes and updates beginner issues (irreversible)

forge repository settings

Write

Enables maintainer branch edits

project forge

Read

Reads forge contribution history

recurring contributor-path recheck

Execute

Installs recurring contributor audits

Delegates the choice of a DCO or CLA to this skill; only placement in the contributing guide remains here.

Delegates final polishing of a drafted contributing guide to the agent's preferred humanizer skill.