{"slug": "show-hn-ai-agent-skills-to-grow-your-open-source-project", "title": "Show HN: AI Agent Skills to Grow Your Open Source Project", "summary": "A new open-source project called 'marketingskills/open-source-growth' provides AI agent skills to help grow open-source repositories. The skills include repo auditing, README rewriting, ecosystem inclusion, and ethical growth tactics, packaged for easy installation via npx or curl.", "body_md": "Growth skills for open-source repos. Give your AI agent a growth team for your open-source project.\n\n**Are you an agent?** Read [AGENTS.md](/marketingskills/open-source-growth/blob/main/AGENTS.md) first. Then load `skills/repo-growth-operator/SKILL.md`\n\nor `skills/ecosystem-inclusion-operator/SKILL.md`\n\n.\n\n**Are you a human?** 📋 Copy this prompt to any AI:\n\n```\nHelp me grow my open-source repo using marketingskills/open-source-growth\n```\n\nTwo agent skills that turn \"random GitHub repo\" into a trusted, installable, shareable project.\n\n| Skill | What it does |\n|---|---|\n|\n\n[ecosystem-inclusion-operator](/marketingskills/open-source-growth/blob/main/skills/ecosystem-inclusion-operator)`/loop`\n\n. Star high-quality targets.Building an open-source repo is one thing. Making it discoverable, trustworthy, and installable is a completely different skill. These skills package that skill so your AI agent can help you grow your repo the same way a growth team would.\n\n```\n# Install the skills\nnpx skills add marketingskills/open-source-growth\n\n# Or curl:\ncurl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marketingskills/open-source-growth/main/install.sh | bash\n\n# Then ask your agent:\n# \"Audit my repo for adoption blockers\"\n\"Audit this open-source skill repo for adoption, trust, and conversion:\nhttps://github.com/marketingskills/seo\"\n\n\"Rewrite this README to maximise installs, stars, and first-run success.\"\n\n\"Find relevant awesome lists and start inclusion PRs for my repo.\"\n\n\"Star this high-quality target repo for me.\"  (requires gh CLI)\n```\n\nEvery suggestion in these skills is governed by an [ethical growth policy](/marketingskills/open-source-growth/blob/main/skills/repo-growth-operator/references/ethical-growth-policy.md). We do not recommend spam, fake stars, fake contributors, or deceptive metadata.\n\nTalk to your agent about any of these:\n\n**Repo audit**— score your repo, find adoption blockers** README rewrite**— install clarity + first-run success** Demo builder**— GIF scripts, Loom outlines, screenshots** Launch pack**— LinkedIn, X, HN, Reddit posts** Trust scaffolding**— issue templates, CI, CONTRIBUTING** Marketplace optimisation**— better SKILL.md metadata** Monetisation bridge**— OSS-to-paid conversion path** Ecosystem inclusion**— find and PR into relevant awesome lists** Social proof**— star, watch, fork via`gh`\n\nCLI**Install script**—`curl | bash`\n\ninstaller with auto-update\n\n— Open-source SEO workflows for AI agents.`marketingskills/seo`\n\nMIT © marketingskills", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-agent-skills-to-grow-your-open-source-project", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/marketingskills/open-source-growth", "published_at": "2026-06-17 11:41:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-17 11:52:42.603864+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["marketingskills/open-source-growth", "marketingskills/seo", "GitHub"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-agent-skills-to-grow-your-open-source-project", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-agent-skills-to-grow-your-open-source-project.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-agent-skills-to-grow-your-open-source-project.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-agent-skills-to-grow-your-open-source-project.jsonld"}}