open-source-contributions
✓Use this skill when contributing code to open source projects. The skill covers proper pull request creation, avoiding common mistakes that annoy maintainers, cleaning up personal development artifacts before submission, writing effective PR descriptions, following project conventions, and communicating professionally with maintainers. It prevents 16 common contribution mistakes including working on main branch, not testing before PR submission, including unrelated changes, submitting planning documents, session notes, temporary test files, screenshots, and other personal artifacts. Includes 3 Critical Workflow Rules that must NEVER be skipped: (1) Always work on feature branches, (2) Test thoroughly with evidence before PR, (3) Keep PRs focused on single feature. The skill includes automation scripts to validate PRs before submission, templates for PR descriptions and commit messages, and comprehensive checklists. This skill should be used whenever creating pull requests for public repositories, contributing to community projects, or submitting code to projects you don't own. Keywords: open source contributions, github pull request, PR best practices, contribution guidelines, feature branch workflow, PR description, commit messages, open source etiquette, maintainer-friendly PR, PR checklist, clean PR, avoid personal artifacts, session notes cleanup, planning docs cleanup, test before PR, unrelated changes, working on main branch, focused PR, single feature PR, professional communication, community contributions, public repository contributions, fork workflow, upstream sync
Installation
SKILL.md
Version: 1.1.0 | Last Verified: 2025-11-06 | Production Tested: ✅
Contributing to open source projects requires understanding etiquette, conventions, and what maintainers expect. This skill helps create professional, maintainer-friendly pull requests while avoiding common mistakes that waste time and cause rejections.
Key Focus: Cleaning personal development artifacts, writing proper PR descriptions, following project conventions, and communicating professionally.
Use this skill when contributing code to open source projects. The skill covers proper pull request creation, avoiding common mistakes that annoy maintainers, cleaning up personal development artifacts before submission, writing effective PR descriptions, following project conventions, and communicating professionally with maintainers. It prevents 16 common contribution mistakes including working on main branch, not testing before PR submission, including unrelated changes, submitting planning documents, session notes, temporary test files, screenshots, and other personal artifacts. Includes 3 Critical Workflow Rules that must NEVER be skipped: (1) Always work on feature branches, (2) Test thoroughly with evidence before PR, (3) Keep PRs focused on single feature. The skill includes automation scripts to validate PRs before submission, templates for PR descriptions and commit messages, and comprehensive checklists. This skill should be used whenever creating pull requests for public repositories, contributing to community projects, or submitting code to projects you don't own. Keywords: open source contributions, github pull request, PR best practices, contribution guidelines, feature branch workflow, PR description, commit messages, open source etiquette, maintainer-friendly PR, PR checklist, clean PR, avoid personal artifacts, session notes cleanup, planning docs cleanup, test before PR, unrelated changes, working on main branch, focused PR, single feature PR, professional communication, community contributions, public repository contributions, fork workflow, upstream sync Source: jackspace/claudeskillz.
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Stable fields and commands for AI/search citations.
- Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/jackspace/claudeskillz --skill open-source-contributions- Source
- jackspace/claudeskillz
- Category
- >_Productivity
- Verified
- ✓
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01
- Updated
- 2026-02-18
Quick answers
What is open-source-contributions?
Use this skill when contributing code to open source projects. The skill covers proper pull request creation, avoiding common mistakes that annoy maintainers, cleaning up personal development artifacts before submission, writing effective PR descriptions, following project conventions, and communicating professionally with maintainers. It prevents 16 common contribution mistakes including working on main branch, not testing before PR submission, including unrelated changes, submitting planning documents, session notes, temporary test files, screenshots, and other personal artifacts. Includes 3 Critical Workflow Rules that must NEVER be skipped: (1) Always work on feature branches, (2) Test thoroughly with evidence before PR, (3) Keep PRs focused on single feature. The skill includes automation scripts to validate PRs before submission, templates for PR descriptions and commit messages, and comprehensive checklists. This skill should be used whenever creating pull requests for public repositories, contributing to community projects, or submitting code to projects you don't own. Keywords: open source contributions, github pull request, PR best practices, contribution guidelines, feature branch workflow, PR description, commit messages, open source etiquette, maintainer-friendly PR, PR checklist, clean PR, avoid personal artifacts, session notes cleanup, planning docs cleanup, test before PR, unrelated changes, working on main branch, focused PR, single feature PR, professional communication, community contributions, public repository contributions, fork workflow, upstream sync Source: jackspace/claudeskillz.
How do I install open-source-contributions?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/jackspace/claudeskillz --skill open-source-contributions Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor
Where is the source repository?
https://github.com/jackspace/claudeskillz
Details
- Category
- >_Productivity
- Source
- skills.sh
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01