Using skills to accelerate OSS maintenance

kept by eddie mar 10

Using skills, AGENTS.md, and GitHub Actions, OpenAI accelerated OSS maintenance in their Agents SDK repos, merging 457 PRs in three months, up from 316.

SchemaFlow: Agentic Database Change Impact Analysis, SQL Generation, and Eval Guardrails
OpenAI cookbook demonstrates SchemaFlow, an agentic workflow for database change impact analysis, SQL generation, evaluation, and guardrails using the OpenAI Agents SDK.
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GitHub - zeke/agents.md: My global instructions for AI agents like OpenCode
A developer shares anonymized global instructions for AI coding agents, covering behavior, commit style, and pushback rules.
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A Complete Guide To AGENTS.md
An AGENTS.md file configures AI coding agent behavior, and should be kept minimal using progressive disclosure—only essential instructions like project description and package manager belong at the root, with other rules delegated to separate files.
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Perhaps not Boring Technology after all
Current LLM coding agents no longer bias toward popular languages; they handle niche or new tools well via long context and documentation.
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How we built a software factory to drive Astro’s GitHub issue count to zero
Cloudflare and Astro maintainers deployed isolated AI subagents in GitHub Actions to automatically reproduce, diagnose, and verify bugs, cutting open issues from over 200 to ~30 and aiming for zero.
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