Open Source Governance Skill

When to Activate

• Launching a new open source project
• Cleaning up governance of an existing project before a public launch
• Onboarding the first external contributors
• Reducing maintainer review burden through automation
• Setting up a CHANGELOG and release process
• Configuring branch protection rules, CODEOWNERS, and required status checks to enforce quality gates on every PR
• Automating releases and CHANGELOG generation from Conventional Commits using release-please or a similar tool

Issue Templates

GitHub supports YAML-based issue templates (.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/). Prefer YAML over Markdown — YAML templates render as structured forms.

Bug report — .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml