github-contributor

github-contributor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from daymade/claude-code-skills. It costs 133 tokens per session (4,496 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step guide for contributing code, tests, documentation, or build changes to open-source projects you do not maintain. It explains how to prepare a pull request that follows the project’s rules and is easier for maintainers to review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find a suitable task, check contribution requirements, keep changes focused, prepare the pull request description, resolve conflicts, and respond after submission.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of having a contribution rejected because it ignores the project’s contribution guide, is too large, or lacks useful context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Claude Code Skills Marketplace is a collection and marketplace of skills, plugins, agents, and instructions that extend Claude Code with specialized development workflows. It is for developers who want to install existing workflows or create, validate, and package their own Claude Code skills.

daymade/claude-code-skills · 1,375 stars · on GitHub

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/github-contributor
Any agent
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill github-contributor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin github-contributor/plugin install github-contributor after adding the marketplace above.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for github-contributor

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/github-contributor.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/github-contributor)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/github-contributor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/github-contributor.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,496 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00133 $0.04496
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.02248
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00899
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00450

Measured yesterday against content hash c748297b542e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-contributor 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 yesterday.

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.

github-contributor/SKILL.md · 319 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 319 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Contributor

A phase-based playbook for shipping pull requests that maintainers actually want to merge. The skill is structured around the real PR lifecycle — discovery → implementation → quality gates → description → post-submission — because each phase has its own failure modes and the most common mistake is doing the right thing at the wrong phase (e.g., writing the perfect description for a PR that's 10× too large).

Phase 0 — When to use this skill

Use this skill when all of these are true:

  • You are contributing to a repo you do not maintain (the maintainer can close your PR without explanation).
  • The work touches one or more of: source code, tests, docs, build config.
  • You want the PR merged, not just submitted.

Do not use this for: your own repos, internal team PRs with shared context, hot-fix branches where a maintainer is waiting on you, or trivial single-line changes (one comment is enough).

Phase 1 — Pre-PR Discovery

The most common reason PRs get closed is a mismatch between what the contributor assumes is acceptable and what the maintainer has already written down. Solve this before writing code.

Step 1.1 — Read CONTRIBUTING.md as a hard contract

CONTRIBUTING.md is not style advice. Treat every numbered rule as a precondition for merge. Pay special attention to:

  • AI-assisted contribution clauses. Many projects added these in 2024-2026 after the AI PR wave. Typical phrasing: "AI-generated PRs without prior discussion may be closed", "you must be able to explain every line", "one issue, one PR". If this clause exists, you owe the project explicit disclosure (see Phase 4) and you must keep the PR small.
  • Issue-first rules. Some projects require a feature-request issue to exist before any feature PR is opened.
  • Per-language test commands. If CONTRIBUTING.md says pnpm test:unit && cargo test, those are the commands you run, not whatever your IDE prefers.

If CONTRIBUTING.md is missing, that itself is a red flag — see references/project_evaluation.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 319 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. yesterday First seen · 319 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A c748297b542e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-contributor is a skill published in the GitHub repository daymade/claude-code-skills (1,375 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 4,496 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-03.

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