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newcomer-issue-explainer

80 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a security skill usually runs scanners and checks websites.

By apache/magpie (GitHub) · security · 146 stars · scanned at commit 8d24b52

Given an open good-first-issue on the configured `<upstream>` repo, explain it in beginner terms and sketch a concrete approach: which files to read first, what "done" looks like, and where to ask follow-up questions — without writing any code. First confirms the issue is open, non-security, and scope-clear, then drafts the explanation for maintainer review. Posts nothing without explicit maintainer confirmation.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'newcomer-issue-explainer' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'newcomer-issue-explainer' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named newcomer-issue-explainer already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/apache/magpie' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8d24b52457f7a2731d7cc3329af96430a16715fd' -- 'plugins/magpie-mentoring/skills/newcomer-issue-explainer' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/magpie-mentoring/skills/newcomer-issue-explainer' ~/.agents/skills/'newcomer-issue-explainer' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'newcomer-issue-explainer' ~/.claude/skills/'newcomer-issue-explainer' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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