Contribution Ethics — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited Contribution Ethics (Agent Skill) and scored it 96/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 1 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
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The text {match} tells the agent to skip the normal "ask the user first" gate. Used adversarially it removes the human-in-the-loop check before destructive or sensitive actions, turning a normally-gated agent into a fire-and-forget executor.
Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
How to behave ethically when contributing to OSS as an AI-assisted contributor: attribution, AI-tell avoidance in maintainer-visible writing, and knowing when to defer to a human.
Add AI attribution to commits or PRs:
Co-Authored-By: Claude trailersThese rules are absolute. Contributions submitted to upstream repos must appear as solely from the human contributor unless that repo's contribution guidelines explicitly require AI disclosure.
Other related "don't"s:
AI-generated comments have recognizable patterns. Avoid these in any maintainer-visible writing (PR descriptions, review responses, issue comments):
Some situations require the human contributor, not an AI tool:
If any of these come up, surface the situation to the human and let them respond.
oss-contribution skill — universal contribution rules (minimal-diff discipline, working on issues, time management, failure protocol).pr-etiquette skill — review responses, PR descriptions, dormant-PR follow-up, PR quality checklist, communication style.~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.