OSS Growth Skill
SkillDev toolsHelps your agent improve an open-source project's adoption with READMEs, quickstarts, release announcements, and growth strategy updates.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
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Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the OSS Growth Skill skill
About this capability
Activate for OSS adoption work -- README conversion surfaces, quickstart, templates, release announcements, contributor funnel, story angles -- and any update to the maintained growth strategy at WIP/growth-strategy.md.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by microsoft/apm in .agents/skills/oss-growth/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
When to activate
- README hero / quickstart / examples sections
docs/content that affects first-run conversiontemplates/(starter projects shape the second-use experience)- Release notes / launch posts / social copy
- Edits to
WIP/growth-strategy.md - Issue templates that affect the contributor funnel
- Any reviewed change that the CEO flags as having growth implications
Key rules
WIP/growth-strategy.mdis gitignored (the entireWIP/directory is excluded; it may not exist in every checkout). Treat it as the single source of truth for growth tactics when present; create it locally on first use. Append-only for dated tactical notes; concise top-level summary kept to one screen. Never stage or commit anything underWIP/.- Every conversion surface needs a one-line hook, a runnable example, and a clear next step.
- Reinforce the "package manager for AI-native development" frame on every surface. Cut anything that dilutes it.
- Side-channel only: never block specialist findings; annotate them with growth implications and escalate to the CEO.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 4k
- Forks
- 361
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
oss-growth- Source
- github.com/microsoft/apm