OSS Contribution Workflows

Overview

Facilitate GitHub-based open source contribution workflows including pull requests, issues, and discussions. This skill provides structured automation for common OSS contribution tasks, ensuring consistent formatting, proper metadata application, and adherence to repository conventions. Use this skill when contributing to open source projects or managing GitHub repositories through the command line.

The skill emphasizes semantic analysis over mechanical operations—understand the intent and context of changes before generating titles, descriptions, or selecting templates. All generated content should be conversational and informal rather than robotic or overly formal.

Prerequisites

Before using any OSS contribution workflow, verify GitHub CLI authentication status:

gh auth status

Ensure the output shows you are logged in to github.com with appropriate scopes (repo, read:org, etc.). If not authenticated, run: