oss-prep-to-contribute

oss-prep-to-contribute is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from chiruu12/OSS-Skills. It costs 81 tokens per session (2,416 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preparation guide for contributing to an open-source repository, a publicly developed code project, before writing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after finding an issue to read contribution documents, check eligibility, identify knowledge gaps, and prepare for the repository's workflow.
Why use it?
It helps prevent rejected contributions caused by missed project rules, eligibility requirements, branch conventions, or misunderstandings about the issue.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it after finding an issue to read contribution documents, check eligibility, identify knowledge gaps, and prepare for the repository's workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chiruu12/oss-skills/oss-prep-to-contribute
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add chiruu12/OSS-Skills --skill oss-prep-to-contribute
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chiruu12/OSS-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,416 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00081 $0.02416
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01208
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00483
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00242

Measured 12d ago against content hash 55ad897a5688, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

oss-prep-to-contribute scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/oss-prep-to-contribute/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prep to Contribute

Get ready to contribute. not by writing code, but by understanding what you're walking into. This skill reads the rules, checks if you're eligible, figures out what you don't know yet, and fills those gaps.

Purpose

Most rejected PRs fail before the first line of code. wrong branch, wrong style, missing CLA, or solving a problem the maintainer didn't actually want solved. This skill front-loads that understanding so you don't waste effort. It also checks what YOU know, because contributing to a codebase you don't understand produces garbage contributions.

Prerequisites

  • A specific repo to contribute to
  • An issue to work on (ideally from oss-find-issue)
  • gh CLI authenticated

Process

1. Read the rules

Read every contribution-relevant doc in the repo. Not skim. read:

# Core docs (check both root and .github/)
for doc in CONTRIBUTING.md CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md README.md CLAUDE.md ARCHITECTURE.md DEVELOPMENT.md; do
  for path in "$doc" ".github/$doc" "docs/$doc"; do
    gh api "repos/{owner}/{repo}/contents/$path" --jq '.content' 2>/dev/null | base64 -d 2>/dev/null && echo "--- Found: $path ---"
  done
done

Extract and present to the user in structured form:

## Contribution Requirements for {repo}

**Eligibility**: {open to all / CLA required / org members only / unclear}
**CLA**: {none / required. link to sign}
**Dev setup**: {step-by-step from their docs}
**Branch convention**: {e.g., "feature/issue-123-description"}
**Commit convention**: {e.g., "conventional commits", "no squash", "sign-off required"}
**PR process**: {template required? reviewers auto-assigned? CI must pass?}
**Test requirements**: {must add tests? coverage threshold? specific framework?}
**Communication**: {Discord/Slack/mailing list for questions}
**Response time**: {typical PR review turnaround based on recent merged PRs}

2. Verify contribution eligibility

This is a hard gate. Check:

  • CLA status: If required, has the user signed it? If not, point them to the signing process.
  • External contributor policy: Some repos have explicit policies. Check recent merged PRs from non-members.
  • Issue assignment policy: Some repos require maintainer assignment before you start working.

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 213 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 55ad897a5688

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oss-prep-to-contribute is a skill published in the GitHub repository chiruu12/OSS-Skills (62 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 2,416 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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