oss-contribution-research

oss-contribution-research is a skill for Claude Code from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 200 tokens per session (4,438 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step process for preparing a proposed contribution to an open-source software project. It checks the project's rules, investigates the issue, prepares a patch, runs checks, and stops for human approval before anything is posted.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate an issue in someone else's repository, reproduce a bug, prepare a disclosed pull-request draft, or follow up on an existing outside contribution.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of sending an unwanted change, duplicating existing work, or missing a project's contribution policy. It keeps a human in control of the final message and submission.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 107 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate an issue in someone else's repository, reproduce a bug, prepare a disclosed pull-request draft, or follow up on an existing outside contribution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rampstackco/claude-skills/oss-contribution-research
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 rampstackco/claude-skills --skill oss-contribution-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 107 skills.

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 200 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,438 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 $0.00200 $0.04438
Opus 5.5 $0.00080 $0.01775
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00888
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00444

Measured today against content hash 48316e3d7c87, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

oss-contribution-research 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 today.

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-contribution-research/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OSS Contribution Research

Prepare one outside contribution to an open-source repo, gate by gate, and stop at a queue item a human approves. The agent running this skill never posts.


When to use

  • Picking up an existing issue or confirmed bug in a repo the user does not maintain
  • Checking whether a repo accepts AI-assisted pull requests before any work starts
  • Asking a maintainer for a go-ahead before writing a patch (an intake comment)
  • Turning a fix into a small, disclosed pull request draft that a human approves
  • Following up on the user's own outside pull request: a review reply, the 14-day ping, or the 28-day close
  • Running a contribution pipeline with an approval queue and a per-repo registry

When NOT to use

  • Reviewing a pull request in a repo the user maintains (use code-review-web)
  • Updating packages or lockfiles in the user's own project (use dependency-management)
  • Writing a new feature spec for the user's own product (use pm-spec-writing)
  • Writing a new skill for this catalog (use skill-creation-walkthrough)
  • Unsolicited refactors, rewrites, or features in someone else's repo. This skill refuses them.

Required inputs

  • Target. The repo (owner/repo) and one of: an existing issue or pull request URL, a bug the agent can reproduce, or a request to search the repo's open issues for a candidate.
  • Queue snapshot. Each run starts on the user's normal login. It makes read-only (GET) calls to the user's private approval queue repo and exports a snapshot to a local file. The snapshot holds three things:
    • the registry (registry.yaml), with each repo's policy class, disclosure template per action type, review mode, cadence cap, cached last submission date and status;
    • the posted ledger: issues labeled status:posted, with the poster's posted markers;
    • the pause state: whether any open issue is labeled pipeline:paused.
  • A read-only token. After the snapshot is written, the run switches to a read-only forge token for all outside research and patch work. It reads the queue only from the snapshot.
    • Filing. Filing the finished item into the queue is a separate, internal step on the user's normal login.
    • Posting. Posting to the outside repo happens only through the queue's poster, and only on approved items.
    • Freshness. The poster revalidates everything at post time, so the snapshot is never the last check.
  • A local clone of the target repo on a branch the user's fork can push later.
  • A local clone of the queue repo. The queue-item format, the poster's docs and its hash helper are read from the user's local clone of their private queue repo, pulled before the run. The read-only token cannot read that repo, so the run never fetches those files over it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. today First seen · 177 lines · 200 tokens per session scan A 48316e3d7c87

Subscribe to this mod's changes

oss-contribution-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (976 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 200 tokens to every session and 4,438 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-10-20.

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