contributor-guide-writer

SkillFiles & storage

Creates clear, welcoming CONTRIBUTING.md files, PR templates, and local dev onboarding guides for open source projects.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the contributor-guide-writer skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by codebygarv/ai-skills in skills/documentation/contributor-guide-writer/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Purpose

Draft comprehensive, beginner-friendly CONTRIBUTING.md guides, GitHub pull request templates, and issue templates to streamline open-source contributions and maintain repo code quality.

When to Use

  • Open-sourcing an internal project or launching a new public repository.
  • Improving contributor onboarding when PRs consistently fail CI or lack context.
  • Standardizing commit conventions and testing expectations for contributors.

What to Analyze

  1. Prerequisites & Tooling: Required Node/Go/Rust/Python versions, package managers, and global CLI tools.
  2. Local Setup Steps: Exact shell commands from git clone to running tests locally.
  3. Contribution Workflow: Branch naming, Conventional Commits format, PR checklist.
  4. Code Quality Standards: Running linters, formatters, typecheckers, and test suites before submitting.
  5. Community Etiquette & Code of Conduct: Guidelines for respectful interaction.

Output Format

  • Complete, markdown-formatted CONTRIBUTING.md.
  • .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md content.
  • .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/ markdown schemas.

Avoid

  • Assuming contributors already know non-standard monorepo commands.
  • Overly restrictive walls of text that discourage community participation.

Signals

GitHub stars
25
Forks
1
Last commit
Aug 2026
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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
contributor-guide-writer
Source
github.com/codebygarv/ai-skills