oss-polish

oss-polish is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from int2t05/engineering-skills. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,900 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for improving an open-source project's GitHub presentation and public story. It covers the README, repository topics and description, commit history, and positioning among similar projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a public release, when a repository has weak documentation or metadata, to create a clearer commit-history narrative, or to compare its presentation with popular projects.
Why use it?
It gives visitors enough context to understand the project, find it, and follow how it was built when the code already works but the repository is hard to evaluate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the engineering-skills plugin — 47 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it before a public release, when a repository has weak documentation or metadata, to create a clearer commit-history narrative, or to compare its presentation with popular projects.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add int2t05/engineering-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install engineering-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install engineering-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 1 hook.

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 oss-polish

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/int2t05/engineering-skills/oss-polish/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/int2t05/engineering-skills/oss-polish)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/int2t05/engineering-skills/oss-polish"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/int2t05/engineering-skills/oss-polish/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for oss-polish

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/int2t05/engineering-skills/oss-polish"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/int2t05/engineering-skills/oss-polish.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,900 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.
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 $0.00060 $0.01900
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00950
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00380
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00190

Measured 8d ago against content hash 264d89f06151, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

oss-polish 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (references/scripts/collect-site-metrics.py, references/scripts/config.py, references/scripts/github_fetcher.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/08-ship/oss-polish/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Open Source Project Polish

One-pass workflow to turn a bare repo into a professional, discoverable open source project. Four phases: README → topics/About → commit-history narrative → trending-repo positioning.

When to use

  • Preparing a project for public release or first launch
  • Repo has working code but a bare README, missing topics, or no About description
  • Want a commit-history narrative (REPOSITORY_SUMMARY.md + THE_STORY_OF_THIS_REPO.md)
  • Researching trending repos in a domain for positioning benchmarking

Not for: open source business model or commercialization strategy (use oss-strategy), or general project documentation (use documentation-audit).

Steps

1. Analyze project

  1. Read entry files (package.json, go.mod, Cargo.toml, requirements.txt, mkdocs.yml).
  2. Scan source dirs for architecture and key features; note tech stack, target users, unique value.
  3. Check existing README.md and repo metadata.
  4. If README.md exists, ask: update in place or back up to README-backup.md first?

Result: a one-paragraph summary of what the project does, who it's for, and what's special.

2. Generate README

Produce a professional README.md with sections in this order:

  1. Title (H1) — repository name.
  2. Badges — shields.io format. Order: build status → tech stack → hosting → license. Pick templates from references/badges.md. Limit 5–10 for readability. Do NOT add a self-link "GitHub repo" badge — readers are already on GitHub.
  3. Live site link — if deployed (GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel).
  4. Overview — 1–3 paragraphs answering what / who / why / unique. Hook a visitor in <15s.
  5. Site metrics (documentation/educational repos) — for content-heavy repos (docs sites, courses), run python references/scripts/collect-site-metrics.py <repo-path>; emit a | Metric | Count | table (markdown files, words, chapters, glossary…). For code-focused repos, skip this step — github_fetcher.py covers repo metrics instead.
  6. Getting Started — prerequisites, clone, install, build/serve, deploy.
  7. Repository Structure — concise ASCII tree (10–20 lines), representative not exhaustive.
  8. Reporting Issues — link to GitHub Issues + bug-report template.
  9. License — match LICENSE file / mkdocs.yml copyright; default CC BY 4.0 for educational content (CC BY-SA if share-alike is desired); reserve NC (NonCommercial) only for projects that explicitly restrict commercial use, MIT or Apache-2.0 for code.
  10. Acknowledgements — key dependencies only.
  11. Contact — maintainer info.
  12. Optional — Contributing, Citation (BibTeX), Changelog.

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 First seen · 144 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 264d89f06151

Subscribe to this mod's changes

oss-polish is a skill published in the GitHub repository int2t05/engineering-skills (3 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,900 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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