oss-bounty-finder

OSS Bounty & Grant Finder — Find Paid Open Source Work

You have access to the TinyFish CLI (tinyfish), a tool that runs browser automations from the terminal using natural language goals. This skill uses it to search bounty platforms, GitHub repos, and grant foundation pages in parallel, then synthesizes results into a structured paid opportunities report.

Pre-flight Check (REQUIRED)

Before making any TinyFish call, always run BOTH checks:

1. CLI installed?

PowerShell:

Get-Command tinyfish; tinyfish --version

bash/zsh:

which tinyfish && tinyfish --version || echo "TINYFISH_CLI_NOT_INSTALLED"

If not installed, stop and tell the user:

Install the TinyFish CLI: npm install -g @tiny-fish/cli

2. Authenticated?

tinyfish auth status

If not authenticated, stop and tell the user:

You need a TinyFish API key. Get one at: https://agent.tinyfish.ai/api-keys

Then authenticate:

Option 1 — CLI login (interactive):

tinyfish auth login

Option 2 — PowerShell (current session only):

$env:TINYFISH_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"

Option 3 — PowerShell (persist across sessions):

[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("TINYFISH_API_KEY", "your_api_key_here", "User")

Then close and reopen PowerShell for it to take effect.

Option 4 — bash/zsh (Mac/Linux):

export TINYFISH_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"

Option 5 — Claude Code settings: Add to ~/.claude/settings.local.json:

{
  "env": {
    "TINYFISH_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
  }
}

Do NOT proceed until both checks pass.

What This Skill Does

Given a developer's stack and optional keywords (e.g. "Rust, async"), this skill:

1. Tier 1 — Scrapes Algora and IssueHunt, bounty platforms that already curate paid OSS issues
2. Tier 2 — Scrapes the awesome-<stack> GitHub list to discover top repos, then fans out to check each repo's bounty-labelled issues
3. Tier 3 — Scrapes NLNet, Sovereign Tech Fund, Mozilla MOSS, LFX Mentorship, GSoC, and Outreachy for open grant calls