OSS Hunter 🎯

A precision skill for agents to find, analyze, and strategize for high-impact Open Source contributions. This skill helps you become a top-tier contributor by identifying the most "mergeable" and influential issues in trending repositories.

When to Use

●Use when the user asks to find open source issues to work on.

●Use when searching for "help wanted" or "good first issue" tasks in specific domains like AI or Web3.

●Use to generate a "Contribution Dossier" with ready-to-execute strategies for trending projects.

Quick Start

Ask your agent:

●"Find me some help-wanted issues in trending AI repositories."

●"Hunt for bug fixes in langchain-ai/langchain that are suitable for a quick PR."

●"Generate a contribution dossier for the most recent trending projects on GitHub."

Workflow

When hunting for contributions, the agent follows this multi-stage protocol:

Phase 1: Repository Discovery

Use web_search or gh api to find trending repositories.

Focus on:

●Stars > 1000

●Recent activity (pushed within 24 hours)

●Relevant topics (AI, Agentic, Web3, Tooling)

Phase 2: Issue Extraction

Search for specific labels:

●help-wanted

●good-first-issue

●bug

●v1 / roadmap

gh issue list --repo owner/repo --label "help wanted" --limit 10

Phase 3: Feasibility Analysis

Analyze the issue:

1.Reproducibility: Is there a code snippet to reproduce the bug?

2.Impact: How many users does this affect?

3.Mergeability: Check recent PR history. Does the maintainer merge community PRs quickly?

4.Complexity: Can this be solved by an agent with the current tools?

Phase 4: The Dossier

Generate a structured report for the human:

●Project Name & Stars

●Issue Link & Description

●Root Cause Analysis (based on code inspection)

●Proposed Fix Strategy

●Confidence Score (1-10)

Limitations

●Accuracy depends on the availability of gh CLI or web_search tools.

●Analysis is limited by context window when reading very large repositories.

●Cannot guarantee PR acceptance (maintainer discretion).

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Contributing to the Matrix

Build a better hunter by adding new heuristics to Phase 3. Submit your improvements to the [ClawForge](https://github.com/jackjin1997/ClawForge).

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Documentation

OSS Hunter 🎯

When to Use

Quick Start

Workflow

Phase 1: Repository Discovery

Phase 2: Issue Extraction

Phase 3: Feasibility Analysis

Phase 4: The Dossier

Limitations

Contributing to the Matrix

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