Open Source Contribution Skill

A Claude Code skill that guides agents to follow open-source contribution best practices.

This skill has been tested and shows signs of improved commit message consistency and better PR quality.

This skill was built using references from GitHub and Google's open source guide and conventional commits.

What It Does

• Finding Projects: Resources and labels for finding beginner-friendly issues
• Understanding Codebases: Step-by-step approach to navigating large projects
• Writing PRs: Forking workflow, branch strategy, conventional commits, PR descriptions
• Code Review: How to respond to feedback professionally
• Communicating with Maintainers: Bug reports, feature requests, best practices
• Enterprise Standards: Linux Kernel patch format, Apache contributor ladder
• Security Disclosure: Coordinated vulnerability reporting

Installation

Using npx add-skill

npx add-skill ronantakizawa/open-source-contribution

Using npx skills

npx skills add ronantakizawa/open-source-contribution

Manual Installation

# Clone to your skills directory
git clone https://github.com/ronantakizawa/open-source-contribution ~/.claude/skills/open-source-contribution

References

• GitHub Open Source Guide
• Conventional Commits v1.0.0
• Google Engineering Practices
• Good First Issue
• First Timers Only
• Up For Grabs
• CodeTriage
• 7 Common Mistakes New Contributors Make
• Lessons from Reviewing 200+ PRs
• Nadia Eghbal - Working in Public