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Prepare OSS projects for sustainable release.

Software Engineering#templates#security#governance#contributing#licensing#open-source#maintainers
AuthorAndreaGriffiths11
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

Open Source Best Practices guides teams to prepare GitHub projects for sustainable open-source release by ensuring security, governance, and contributor readiness before going public.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Security-first readiness: guides cleaning secrets, setting up vulnerability reporting, and secure onboarding.
  • Governance & licensing: provides templates and checks for governance, MAINTAINERS, and license decisions.
  • Documentation templates: provides README, CONTRIBUTING, CODE_OF_CONDUCT, SECURITY docs and example workflows for contributors.

Quick Start

Read SKILL.md to begin Phase 1 and run through the 8-phase workflow to ready a project for public launch.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

Standard package

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Name: open-source-best-practices
Download link: https://github.com/AndreaGriffiths11/open-source-best-practices/archive/main.zip#open-source-best-practices

Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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