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Best open source maintenance skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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Open source maintenance skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merges external GitHub pull requests while keeping the original author credited, and fixes conflicts after the merge instead of rewriting the contribution. | HKUDS/ | 16k | 1 repo | ~847 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 2 | Publishes curated, bilingual release notes for an existing Mole version tag with gh release edit, including contributor thanks and reactions, after the release workflow finishes. | tw93/ | 69k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 3 | Cherry-picks commits from the chatbox-pro repo into the open chatbox repo, skipping mobile-only files and keeping the open package name. | chatboxai/ | 42k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | 13 days ago |
| 4 | Sorts a backlog of open pull requests into must-merge, candidate, superseded and deferred, writes a triage doc and works the merge loop before a release. | jamiepine/ | 57k | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 5 | Prepares the triage meeting summary for WinAppSDK Needs-Triage issues, with research-backed area suggestions, draft replies and a diff since the last triage. | microsoft/ | 4.7k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 6 | Takes a blocked community pull request in React Router and adds the missing tests, change file or docs so it can merge, working on the contributor's branch. | remix-run/ | 57k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 7 | Reviews an existing verdaccio/verdaccio pull request end to end, verifies each finding and reports whether it is mergeable, optionally fixing it on the PR branch. | verdaccio/ | 18k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 8 | Creates backports of a merged Ansible devel pull request onto the right stable branches by cherry-picking its merge commit onto new backport branches. | ansible/ | 71k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 9 | Deep-dive analysis of GitHub projects. An agent skill from MaxMiksa/Auto-Company. | MaxMiksa/ | 3.1k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 10 | Decides how verified work should reach main, directly, in a worktree or on an integration branch, while keeping contributor credit and respecting merge gates. | codewhale-hq/ | 41k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 11 | Runs maintenance for the context-mode project with parallel subagents: issue triage, PR review, releases, bug fixes, announcements and branch syncing. | mksglu/ | 26k | — | ~6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 12 | Triages and works through GitHub issues and pull requests in the Q00/ouroboros repo as a maintainer, within a stated review boundary and clear limits on what it may change. | Q00/ | 6.2k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 13 | Audits open GitHub issues, categorizes them, flags duplicates and linked PRs in three phases, with optional deep analysis and comments posted only after validation. | rtk-ai/ | 83k | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 14 | Triages an incoming verdaccio/verdaccio issue against the code, the affected release line and related issues, and picks labels from the repository's existing taxonomy. | verdaccio/ | 18k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 15 | Publishes and syncs a local MoviePilot plugin to a GitHub repository, merging only that plugin's package entry and previewing differences before writing. | jxxghp/ | 12k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 16 | 16.Release Guide and automate release management for data-prep-kit. An agent skill from data-prep-kit/data-prep-kit. | data-prep-kit/ | 965 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 8 days ago |
| 17 | Turns the open issues and pull requests of the linkedin-mcp-server repository into a read-only priority list for maintainers. | stickerdaniel/ | 3.8k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 18 | Turns a React Router RFC discussion on GitHub into an implementation, weighing community feedback and settling open questions with you before coding. | remix-run/ | 57k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 19 | Scores a GitHub repository's openness to outside contributors using PR throughput, response evidence, governance, and contribution fit. | tomsen02/ | 100 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 17 days ago |
| 20 | Scans open GitHub issues and discussions, flags duplicates, scores priority and proposes labels into issue-triage-state.md without ever labeling or closing. | cobusgreyling/ | 11k | — | ~522 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 21 | A skill your agent uses when a user wants guidance on starting, contributing to, growing, governing, funding, securing, or sustaining an open source project, or asks about contributor onboarding… | calf-ai/ | 149 | 1 repo | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 22 | Helps newcomers contribute to OpenDesign: ship a skill or design system, translate docs, fix docs or report a bug, ending in a pull request or issue. | nexu-io/ | 100k | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 23 | A workflow for implementing a Verdaccio bug fix, feature or refactor: pick the release lines, check existing options, edit the owning layer, test and add a changeset. | verdaccio/ | 18k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 24 | Drafts, files, supplements and replies to GitHub issues for bugs, feature ideas and project rules, using the target repository's own templates and etiquette. | zyycn/ | 738 | — | ~484 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 25 | Turns a bug or idea into a single actionable Codewhale GitHub issue with evidence, a gap-naming title, acceptance criteria and related links. | codewhale-hq/ | 41k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 26 | Drafts, creates, comments on and approves GitHub issues under strict rules: YAML Issue Forms, a duplicate search first, and guarded protected labels. | Gentleman-Programming/ | 7.6k | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 27 | Set up and review CI, artifact publishing, versioning, and release management for Minecraft 26.x or legacy 1.21.x mods and Paper plugins. | Jahrome907/ | 166 | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 24 days ago |
| 28 | End-to-end GitHub repository maintenance for open-source projects. | numman-ali/ | 1.1k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 25 days ago |
| 29 | Keeps TiDB GitHub issues consistent by following the issue templates, writing reproducible reports, checking for duplicates and applying labels explicitly. | pingcap/ | 41k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 30 | 30.Jev Curation Maintains the awesome-jev list by applying strict inclusion rules, sorting evidence into category pages and rebuilding the README from them. | yibie/ | 2.2k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | today |
| 31 | Maintains Verdaccio's bundled plugins and the plugin contracts in @verdaccio/core, and diagnoses plugin loading problems. | verdaccio/ | 18k | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 32 | Walks a repository through release readiness before it goes public: secrets audit, licensing, documentation, CI and language-specific packaging. | trailofbits/ | 7.4k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | 5 days ago |
| 33 | Guides changes to the DisCatSharp C# Discord library: tracing a payload field through parsing, serialization and caches, then validating across target frameworks. | Aiko-IT-Systems/ | 140 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 34 | Gatekeeps GitHub issues and pull requests for Qwen Code maintainers through staged static reviews that post a comment after each stage, under strict safety rules. | QwenLM/ | 28k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 35 | Working rules for developing the simon42 Home Assistant dashboard strategy: verify before assuming, protect existing behavior, test on a real system and handle community PRs with care. | TheRealSimon42/ | 262 | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 4 days ago |
| 36 | Produces maintainer-facing triage cards for a project's GitHub issues and pull requests, each with its URL, risk, test state, blockers and a next action. | steipete/ | 7.3k | — | ~4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 37 | Chooses the release-line label and one to three content labels for a verdaccio/verdaccio pull request and applies them with the gh CLI. | verdaccio/ | 18k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 38 | Lists open pull requests in dotnet/maui and dotnet/docs-maui that are worth reviewing next, ranked by priority labels, milestone and partner or community origin. | dotnet/ | 23k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 39 | Helps maintain the slopus/happy open source project by triaging issues, drafting closing comments, finding duplicates and checking fixes, with approval before anything is posted. | slopus/ | 24k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 40 | Triages open pull requests from external contributors to prisma/orm, producing a per-PR verdict with evidence, without closing, commenting on or approving anything. | prisma/ | 48k | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 41 | Groups a large GitHub issue backlog by root cause into plan-master issues, redirects the child issues, and bundles one PR per cluster that closes them together. | thedotmack/ | 97k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 42 | Runs an interactive triage session over open dotnet/maui GitHub issues, presenting them one at a time and suggesting milestones through bundled PowerShell scripts. | dotnet/ | 23k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 43 | Assists with Morphir CLI release management for finos/morphir, including pre-release verification, extension verification, version bumps, tagging, and release coordination. | finos/ | 213 | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 44 | Prepare and publish a project release with version updates, changelog generation, tagging, and validation | termide/ | 171 | — | ~6.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 45 | Scans open pull requests against the project's review response window and reports which ones need action, read-only unless you approve a reminder. | gittower/ | 458 | — | ~549 | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | 29 days ago |
| 46 | Applies the full manual-label policy of the dotnet/maui issue triage command, judging type, area, platform, status, regression and priority against the evidence in each issue. | dotnet/ | 23k | — | ~9.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 47 | Manages Python library releases including semantic versioning, changelog maintenance (Keep a Changelog format), release automation with GitHub Actions, and deprecation workflows. | kajisho5/ | 1.9k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 48 | Drafts the release notes file and changelog entry for a Prisma 8 release from the PRs merged since the previous release tag, with breaking changes first. | prisma/ | 48k | — | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best open source maintenance skill?
Contributor-First PR Merge from HKUDS/OpenHarness ranks first of the 89 open source maintenance skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 16k GitHub stars, 1 other GitHub owner carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 847 tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Mole Release Notes Publisher and Chatbox Pro Cherry-Pick Sync.
Which open source maintenance skills are official?
10 of the 89 open source maintenance skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: WinAppSDK Triage Meeting Prep, Open-Source Release Readiness, Find Reviewable MAUI PRs, Triage Contributor PRs, MAUI Issue Triage Session and 5 more.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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