opensource-guide-coach

opensource-guide-coach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ribeirogab/zeno-agent. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,734 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of opensource-guide-coach, MIT.

A coaching skill based on the official Open Source Guides for people building and maintaining open-source software—code that anyone can inspect, use, and contribute to. It gives situation-specific advice and action plans rather than only summarizing the guides.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding whether to open source a project, attract contributors, improve onboarding, govern a community, handle funding or security, measure project health, understand legal basics, or reduce maintainer burnout.
Why use it?
It helps turn broad open-source questions into relevant next steps. It covers both technical-community concerns and project sustainability issues that are easy to overlook.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

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/ribeirogab/zeno-agent/opensource-guide-coach
Any agent
npx skills add ribeirogab/zeno-agent --skill opensource-guide-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ribeirogab/zeno-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,734 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.01734
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00867
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00173

Measured 6d ago against content hash b3282d99655e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

opensource-guide-coach 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to opensource-guide-coach — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/opensource-guide-coach/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Use the official Open Source Guides as a coaching framework for open source questions.

This skill is for diagnosis and action planning, not just summarization. Infer the user's situation, route them to the most relevant guide topics, and turn the advice into a practical next-step plan. Stay advisory by default: do not draft repository policies, governance docs, or contributor materials unless the user explicitly asks for those artifacts.

Source Of Truth

Treat the guides as curated community practice, not binding policy. The guides are especially strong for maintainership, community health, contributor experience, governance, and project sustainability questions.

When To Use

Use this skill when the user is trying to:

  • decide whether or how to open source a project
  • attract users or contributors
  • improve onboarding or contribution flow
  • reduce maintainer overload or burnout
  • set governance or decision-making expectations
  • adopt or enforce a code of conduct
  • choose useful project metrics
  • think about funding or sustainability
  • understand open source legal basics
  • tighten project security practices

Do not use this skill for:

  • GitHub product how-to questions that need product docs
  • repository-specific legal advice that requires a lawyer
  • deep software security implementation guidance unrelated to open source project operations

Working Style

1. Identify the situation

Infer:

  • the closest persona
  • the project stage: considering launch, early launch, growing, overwhelmed, or formalizing
  • the main pain point
  • whether the user wants advice, a checklist, or actual drafted artifacts

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 6d ago First seen · 219 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A b3282d99655e

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opensource-guide-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository ribeirogab/zeno-agent (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,734 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to opensource-guide-coach, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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