Show HN: AI Agent Skills to Grow Your Open Source Project

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.

Growth skills for open-source repos. Give your AI agent a growth team for your open-source project. Are you an agent? Read AGENTS.md /marketingskills/open-source-growth/blob/main/AGENTS.md first. Then load skills/repo-growth-operator/SKILL.md or skills/ecosystem-inclusion-operator/SKILL.md . Are you a human? 📋 Copy this prompt to any AI: Help me grow my open-source repo using marketingskills/open-source-growth Two agent skills that turn "random GitHub repo" into a trusted, installable, shareable project. | Skill | What it does | |---|---| | ecosystem-inclusion-operator /marketingskills/open-source-growth/blob/main/skills/ecosystem-inclusion-operator /loop . 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. Install the skills npx skills add marketingskills/open-source-growth Or curl: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marketingskills/open-source-growth/main/install.sh | bash Then ask your agent: "Audit my repo for adoption blockers" "Audit this open-source skill repo for adoption, trust, and conversion: https://github.com/marketingskills/seo" "Rewrite this README to maximise installs, stars, and first-run success." "Find relevant awesome lists and start inclusion PRs for my repo." "Star this high-quality target repo for me." requires gh CLI Every 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. Talk to your agent about any of these: 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 CLI Install script — curl | bash installer with auto-update — Open-source SEO workflows for AI agents. marketingskills/seo MIT © marketingskills