Open Source Contributions

The Golden Rule

Make it easy for maintainers to absorb your contribution. Maintainers are often under-resourced volunteers or small teams. Every friction point you remove — unclear reproduction steps, missing tests, bad commit messages, force-pushed history — is time they don't have to spend figuring out what you did and why. The whole point is to help them, not create more work.

When to Use This Skill

• Filing a bug report or feature request on a public repository
• Preparing a pull request for any open source project
• Working on a project without documented contributing guidelines (default posture)
• Reviewing your own PR before submission
• Setting up open source conventions for your own project

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