# Coach Open Source Project Maintainers

Open source maintainers often need focused advice without reading every guide. This skill maps each situation to official guides and practical next steps.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add xixu-me/opensource-guide-coach
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: xixu-me-opensource-guide-coach
- Skillstore revision: r1
- Version status: missing
- Tree hash: b62e075e00185f9f6905e47d4b9c6d0c853f1c69a6c8a472af13f44248b3b49f
- Author: xixu-me
- GitHub username: xixu-me
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/xixu-me/skills/tree/main/skills/opensource-guide-coach/
- Ref: 64ca8af0f54a325752f08bd54e52151061ea659a
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: allowed
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: external\_commands, network
- Quality score: 76
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/xixu-me-opensource-guide-coach
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/xixu-me-opensource-guide-coach/manifest

## Capabilities

- Routes open source questions to the smallest useful set of official guide topics.
- Infers the likely maintainer persona, project stage, and main pain point.
- Recommends one to three official Open Source Guides with canonical URLs.
- Turns guide themes into prioritized next steps for the project size.
- Calls out scope risks, legal boundaries, and over-process concerns.
- Preserves attribution and avoids long copied passages from source guides.

## Use Cases

- Prepare a First Open Source Launch: Help a solo developer decide what to prepare before opening a project to contributors.
- Improve Contributor Onboarding: Help a maintainer simplify contribution paths and choose practical community improvements.
- Plan Governance and Sustainability: Help a team balance decision rules, conduct expectations, funding, and maintainer capacity.

## Prompt Templates

### Check Launch Readiness

```
I want to open source my project. Help me decide what I need before launch.
```

### Improve Contributor Flow

```
Our project has interested users but few contributors. Suggest practical onboarding improvements.
```

### Reduce Maintainer Overload

```
I am overwhelmed by issues and pull requests. Recommend a lightweight plan that protects maintainer time.
```

### Balance Governance and Trust

```
Our mature open source project needs clearer governance, security expectations, and sustainability planning. Recommend the most relevant guide path.
```

## Limitations

- It gives general guidance and does not replace legal advice from a qualified lawyer.
- It is not a GitHub product documentation assistant for feature-specific tasks.
- It does not provide deep code-level security review or incident response.
- It relies on bundled guide mappings and may not reflect future guide changes.

## Best Practices

- Share the project stage, maintainer capacity, and main pain point in the prompt.
- Ask for one concrete plan before requesting full policy or governance drafts.
- Treat legal and security answers as general guidance unless expert review is available.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not use the skill as a substitute for legal counsel on licensing disputes.
- Do not ask for every guide topic when one focused guide would solve the problem.
- Do not request heavyweight governance for a small project without a real decision problem.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-07-08T09:47:50.915\+00:00
- Summary: Reviewed all 50 static findings in context. The command-execution matches are Markdown inline-code and link syntax, the URLs are official guide references, and the blocker matches are advisory text. No prompt injection, exfiltration intent, or malicious behavior was found.

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