awesome-oss-skills

A collection of Agent Skills for onboarding open source contributors and helping maintainers run healthy repositories.

These skills are packaged in the SKILL.md format so they can be installed with Vercel's skills CLI:

npx skills add naorpeled/awesome-oss-skills

Available skills

Contributors

• repository-onboarding
  • Summarize a repository from README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, developer docs, and templates.
• local-development-bootstrap
  • Extract setup, build, test, and lint steps from docs and config files.
• first-oss-contribution
  • Help a contributor find a project via discovery sources like up-for-grabs.net or CodeTriage when they don't have one yet, then pick a small first change, understand the workflow, and prepare a pull request.

Maintainers

• maintainer-triage-and-review
  • Support issue triage, PR review, documentation drift checks, and contributor-onboarding audits.
• maintainer-ci-and-release-health
  • Audit cross-platform CI coverage, release automation, distribution channel consistency, and agent-instruction files.
• project-bootstrap
  • Bootstrap a new project: choose a license, scaffold baseline docs and CI, and flag follow-up repository health work.

Pull request workflows

• green-pr
  • Resolve AI code review comments, fix failing CI checks, and address human review feedback with user-approved replies until a PR is mergeable.

Repository structure

This repository follows the Agent Skills package layout used by the Vercel skills CLI:

• skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md — one skill per directory
• skills.sh.json — grouping metadata for skills catalogs
• README.md — package overview and installation instructions

Contributing

New to this repository? See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to add or update a skill and what a pull request should include. Agent-facing maintenance instructions live in AGENTS.md (CLAUDE.md is a symlink to the same file).

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.