community-health

GitHub Community Health

Activate when setting up or auditing community health files for GitHub repositories. This skill covers the files GitHub checks in its Community Standards profile, plus related repo configuration.

Community Profile Checklist

GitHub checks these 6 items on the /community tab:

1. README — project overview, usage, and getting started
2. LICENSE — open-source license file in repo root
3. CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md — community behavior standards
4. CONTRIBUTING.md — how to contribute
5. Issue templates — structured bug/feature reporting
6. SECURITY.md — vulnerability disclosure policy

Check current status:

# View community profile metrics via API
gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/community/profile

GitHub Template APIs

GitHub provides APIs to fetch common templates at runtime. Always fetch rather than hardcode — templates get updated.

# List available license templates (13 licenses)
gh api licenses --jq '.[].key'

# Fetch a specific license body
gh api licenses/mit --jq '.body'

# Fetch Code of Conduct (note: API serves v2.0, not latest v3.0)
gh api codes_of_conduct/contributor_covenant --jq '.body'

# List available gitignore templates
gh api gitignore/templates

# Fetch a specific gitignore template
gh api gitignore/templates/Node --jq '.source'

LICENSE

Use the GitHub API to list and fetch license templates:

# List all available licenses
gh api licenses --jq '.[] | "\(.key): \(.name)"'

# Fetch license text (has [year] and [fullname] placeholders)
gh api licenses/mit --jq '.body'
gh api licenses/apache-2.0 --jq '.body'
gh api licenses/gpl-3.0 --jq '.body'

After fetching, replace placeholders:

• [year] — current year (or year range)
• [fullname] — copyright holder name

Place the file as LICENSE (no extension) in the repository root.

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

The GitHub API serves Contributor Covenant v2.0, but the latest version is v3.0 (available at contributor-covenant.org).