Open Source Maintainer

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Asked to triage issues
• Analyze contributor activity
• Generate maintenance reports
• Maintain a repository

Example prompts

• “triage”
• “maintain”
• “review PRs”
• “/open-source-maintainer”

Requirements

• Node.js

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Setup
2. 2Capture (Run Triage)
3. 3Analyze (Issues + PRs)
4. 4Synthesize (What matters next)
5. 5Align (Human-in-the-loop)
6. 6Execute (Agent does the work)
7. 7Record (Project memory)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit fdabc47. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships 9 files in scripts/ (TypeScript, from the files we listed), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • npx

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Open Source Maintainer loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~12k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 125 tokens; SKILL.md has 686 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~125

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.8k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~12k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from numman-ali/n-skills at commit fdabc47, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© numman-ali). 686 words, ~1,800 tokens.

name

open-source-maintainer

description

End-to-end GitHub repository maintenance for open-source projects. Use when asked to triage issues, review PRs, analyze contributor activity, generate maintenance reports, or maintain a repository. Triggers include "triage", "maintain", "review PRs", "analyze issues", "repo maintenance", "what needs attention", "open source maintenance", or any request to understand and act on GitHub issues/PRs. Supports human-in-the-loop workflows with persistent memory across sessions.

npx tsx /path/to/open-source-maintainer/scripts/triage.ts

# Standard run (creates reports/<datetime>/)
npx tsx /path/to/open-source-maintainer/scripts/triage.ts

# Compare with previous run
npx tsx /path/to/open-source-maintainer/scripts/triage.ts --delta

# Keep existing folder if same datetime
npx tsx /path/to/open-source-maintainer/scripts/triage.ts --keep

# Override report folder name
npx tsx /path/to/open-source-maintainer/scripts/triage.ts --datetime 2026-01-17T12-30-00

# Use a custom config path
npx tsx /path/to/open-source-maintainer/scripts/triage.ts --config .github/maintainer/config.json

© numman-ali, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 23 other files (scripts, references) in skills/workflow/open-source-maintainer/skills/open-source-maintainer of numman-ali/n-skills.

• SKILL.md
• references/communication-guide.md
• references/config.md
• references/decision-framework.md
• references/intent-extraction.md
• references/quality-checklist.md
• references/repo-state-template.md
• references/report-structure.md
• references/workflow.md
• scripts/triage.ts
• scripts/triage/analysis.ts
• scripts/triage/config.ts
• scripts/triage/derive.ts
• scripts/triage/git-summary.ts
• scripts/triage/github.ts
• scripts/triage/graph.ts
• scripts/triage/index.ts
• scripts/triage/main.ts
• … and 6 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit fdabc47