# Evidence-Backed Open-Source Contribution

- id: evidence-backed-open-source-contribution
- type: skill
- category: developer-workflows
- detail: https://agents.proofandstate.com/products/evidence-backed-open-source-contribution

## Summary
Take a bounded open-source issue from selection to maintainer-ready submission using contributor-rule discovery, collision checks, exact-base branching, red/green proof, repository-native validation, and honest CI/review reporting.

## Problem
Open-source contributions can waste maintainer time or damage contributor credibility when they duplicate active work, solve the wrong layer, skip reproduction, misread CI, or present weak evidence as completion.

## Core outcomes
- Worthy-issue selection with duplicate-work prevention
- Repository-specific rule and contribution-policy compliance
- Exact upstream base and fork hygiene
- Immutable red/green evidence on exact revisions
- Right-layer fixes with bounded diffs
- Maintainer-facing validation and truthful submission handoff

## Requirements
- Public or accessible Git repository
- Issue or bounded maintenance target
- Ability to inspect repository contribution guidance and history
- Test or reproduction path appropriate to the bug
- Fork or authorised branch workflow
- Git and hosted CI evidence when available

## Boundaries
- Do not race an active credible contributor
- Do not bypass repository rules about human submission or approvals
- Cancelled or gated CI is not equivalent to a test failure
- Local checks, hosted CI, review, and merge approval remain separate evidence classes
- Only demonstrated reusable lessons should be packaged as product knowledge

## Tags
- open-source
- contribution
- red-green
- duplicate-prevention
- maintainer-review
- ci-evidence

## Canonical source
- repository: AyobamiH/agent-shop-products (main)
- payload path: products/evidence-backed-open-source-contribution/SKILL.md

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