github-contributor

github-contributor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from daymade/claude-code-skills. It costs 105 tokens per session (4,738 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

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to find a suitable task, check contribution requirements, keep changes focused, prepare the pull request description, resolve conflicts, and respond after submission.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/github-contributor
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 · 1,477 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.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,738 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
  • Socket pass 11 Oct 2026
  • Snyk warn 11 Oct 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 232
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Anti-Refusal · line 274
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
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 $0.00105 $0.04738
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.01895
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00948
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00474

Measured 8d ago against content hash 98e03b822320, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 8d 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.

github-contributor/SKILL.md · 340 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 340 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 · 340 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. 8d ago Changed · +9 lines 98e03b822320
  2. 9d ago Changed · +7 lines d0951e0bca41
  3. 25d ago Changed · +5 lines · -28 tokens per session 0ef3d3f4038f
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 319 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A c748297b542e

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github-contributor is a skill published in the GitHub repository daymade/claude-code-skills (1,477 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 4,738 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.