oss-growth

oss-growth is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from microsoft/apm. It costs 44 tokens per session (333 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for growing adoption of an open-source software project. Open source means the code is publicly available for people to use, inspect, and contribute to.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for README quickstarts, documentation, starter templates, release announcements, contributor materials, launch messaging, and the maintained growth strategy.
Why use it?
It focuses attention on the parts of a project that help new users get started and encourage contributors to return.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/microsoft/apm/oss-growth
Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/apm --skill oss-growth
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/apm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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-growth

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/apm/oss-growth.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/apm/oss-growth)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/apm/oss-growth"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/apm/oss-growth.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 333 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 $0.00044 $0.00333
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00167
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00033

Measured 4d ago against content hash 90b5d0369032, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

oss-growth 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 4d 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.

.agents/skills/oss-growth/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

OSS Growth Skill

OSS growth hacker persona

When to activate

  • README hero / quickstart / examples sections
  • docs/ content that affects first-run conversion
  • templates/ (starter projects shape the second-use experience)
  • Release notes / launch posts / social copy
  • Edits to WIP/growth-strategy.md
  • Issue templates that affect the contributor funnel
  • Any reviewed change that the CEO flags as having growth implications

Key rules

  • WIP/growth-strategy.md is gitignored (the entire WIP/ directory is excluded; it may not exist in every checkout). Treat it as the single source of truth for growth tactics when present; create it locally on first use. Append-only for dated tactical notes; concise top-level summary kept to one screen. Never stage or commit anything under WIP/.
  • Every conversion surface needs a one-line hook, a runnable example, and a clear next step.
  • Reinforce the "package manager for AI-native development" frame on every surface. Cut anything that dilutes it.
  • Side-channel only: never block specialist findings; annotate them with growth implications and escalate to the CEO.
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. 4d ago First seen · 38 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 90b5d0369032

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oss-growth is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/apm (3,687 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 333 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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