ContributorOps

Turn meaningful open-source contributions into verifiable career proof.

Browser demo · Launch hub · Run the real app · Engineering showcase · Recruiter brief · Safety · Contribute

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ContributorOps is an open-source contribution intelligence platform for developers who want to do meaningful OSS work and turn that work into evidence that maintainers and hiring teams can understand.

The core loop is:

Discover → Prepare → Validate → Authorize → Prove

• Discover role-relevant contribution opportunities.
• Prepare scoped change plans, tests, maintainer context, and PR narrative.
• Validate scope, quality, repository policy, duplicates, and submission readiness.
• Authorize maintainer-facing writes through explicit, bounded authority paths.
• Prove completed work through portfolio evidence, resume bullets, and interview stories.

ContributorOps is intentionally not a mass-commenting bot, mass-PR engine, or contribution-gaming system. Maintainer trust is an architecture constraint.

Try it before you trust it

The fastest evaluation path is the browser demo. It requires no signup, no GitHub token, and no repository access.

The demo uses explicitly fictional examples and walks through:

1. issue discovery and role-fit scoring
2. focused file/test planning
3. deterministic quality checks
4. interactive versus standing authorization boundaries
5. recruiter-readable proof-of-work output

Want the real product instead of the walkthrough?

The Codespaces/local default remains demo-safe: no GitHub token is required and external contribution execution is disabled unless the operator explicitly configures it.

Why this repository is different

ContributorOps makes the product story inspectable. The architecture, trust boundaries, quality gates, launch rules, and adoption signals are public rather than hidden behind marketing claims.

Evidence	What it demonstrates
Browser Demo	immediate no-signup product evaluation with clearly fictional scenarios
Launch Hub	audience-specific evaluation paths for developers, recruiters, and maintainers
docs/architecture.md	system surfaces, data flow, CI, deployment, and production evolution
docs/security-model.md	interactive action-scoped approval and standing exact-patch authorization boundaries
docs/adr/	durable reasoning behind high-impact architecture choices
docs/safety-policy.md	anti-spam rules, repository-policy checks, exact-patch constraints, and rate limits
docs/quality-gates.md	deterministic route/metadata checks, Lighthouse budgets, TypeScript/build gates, and limits
CI workflow	API/Web/Site builds, trust tests, dependency audits, secret scanning, and site-quality enforcement
CodeQL workflow	JavaScript/TypeScript static security analysis
Engineering Showcase	how the implementation maps to engineering evidence
Recruiter Brief	a two-minute path from product story to source-level proof
Adoption Dashboard	live public GitHub signals without invented customer or user claims
docs/phase-8-launch-execution.md	launch packets, channel rules, 60-second demo, measurement, and anti-gaming policy

Authorization model

A generated plan is never authority by itself.

ContributorOps supports two intentionally separate paths for maintainer-facing execution.

1. Interactive action-scoped approval

Interactive contribution runs follow:

prepare → inspect exact payload → approve exact action → execute → retain audit event

New runs receive separate approval capabilities for:

• comment
• fork branch
• draft PR

A capability for one action cannot authorize another. Legacy generic run tokens fail closed for new writes.

2. Standing exact-patch authorization

The operator can separately enable a repository-owned exact-patch queue for bounded unattended execution.

A queued patch must already contain the concrete files, exact replacements, commit metadata, PR copy, and test evidence. Before execution ContributorOps re-checks:

• open/non-archived repository and issue state
• detected repository policy, including AI-contribution prohibitions
• existing PRs referencing the issue
• same-repository/day duplication
• global daily PR cap
• safe paths and bounded file/replacement scope
• exact single-match replacement against current source

Ambiguity or source drift fails closed. Successful standing submissions remain draft pull requests and include automation disclosure.

Read docs/security-model.md and docs/safety-policy.md.

Architecture at a glance

flowchart LR
    User[Developer] --> Site[apps/site\nPublic site + browser demo]
    User --> Web[apps/web\nProduct UI]
    Web --> API[apps/api\nExpress orchestration]
    API --> Data[data\nLocal MVP state]
    API --> GH[GitHub / Octokit]

    Actions[GitHub Actions] --> Quality[CI + quality + security gates]
    Actions --> Radar[Hourly OSS radar]
    Radar --> Workspace[Managed contributor workspace]
    PatchQueue[Repository-owned exact patch queue] --> Exact[Exact-patch validation]
    Exact --> GH

    API --> Interactive[Action-scoped interactive approval]
    Interactive --> GH

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The project originally established human-approved interactive writes in ADR-0001. The current security model documents how that interactive path coexists with the separately authorized exact-patch queue.

Repository map

contributorOps/
├─ .devcontainer/ # one-click Codespaces environment
├─ apps/
│  ├─ api/        # discovery, scoring, planning, GitHub safety + execution paths
│  ├─ web/        # interactive product application
│  └─ site/       # public product, demo, launch, recruiter, adoption, quality, safety
├─ data/           # local MVP state + standing patch queue inputs/results
├─ docs/
│  ├─ adr/         # architecture decision records
│  └─ ...          # architecture, safety, quality, adoption, launch, distribution
├─ scripts/        # deterministic site-quality and Lighthouse harnesses
├─ .github/        # CI, CodeQL, dependency review, Pages, radar, patch-queue workflows
├─ lighthouserc.json
├─ CHANGELOG.md
├─ CITATION.cff
├─ CONTRIBUTORS.md
└─ README.md

Core capabilities

Opportunity intelligence

• issue discovery across external repositories
• role-aware scoring and filtering
• daily/hourly contribution radar
• stack-oriented prioritization

Contribution preparation

• scoped contribution plans
• likely file and testing suggestions
• maintainer-question drafting
• branch, commit, and PR draft generation
• managed contributor forks/workspaces
• bounded executable exact-patch plans

Quality, trust, and security

• PR quality scoring
• deterministic pre-submit checks
• action-scoped interactive approvals
• exact-patch standing authorization
• repository-policy and duplicate checks
• per-repository and global daily limits
• draft-only standing submissions
• auditable approval/run state
• runtime high/critical npm audit merge gate
• full dependency audit reporting
• CodeQL static analysis
• Dependabot update policy
• optional Dependency Review hard gate when GitHub Dependency Graph is enabled
• CycloneDX SBOM generation
• route/metadata integrity validation
• Lighthouse quality budgets
• API/Web/Site TypeScript and build checks

Proof-of-work packaging

• contribution portfolio tracking
• public contribution pages
• GitHub resume export
• LinkedIn draft generation
• interview STAR story generation
• recruiter-facing summaries

Adoption and launch operations

• browser-only no-signup demo
• local/Codespaces real-app evaluation
• public Launch Hub
• live GitHub adoption dashboard
• optional privacy-first analytics, disabled by default
• audience-specific Share Hub
• structured workflow-feedback intake
• contributor-retention playbook
• channel-specific public launch execution guide

Quick start

Prerequisites

• Node.js 20+
• npm 10+

Install

git clone https://github.com/AnkitParekh007/contributorOps.git
cd contributorOps
npm ci

Run API + product UI

npm run dev

Without a GitHub token, the product can use its demo discovery path; authenticated GitHub actions remain unavailable.

Run the public site

npm run site:dev

Validate the workspace

npm run test:api
npm run typecheck
npm run build:all
npm run site:quality
npm run site:lighthouse
npm run security:audit:runtime

See docs/environment-setup.md and docs/local-development.md.

Current project boundary

Area	Status
Public product + documentation site	✅ Live
Browser-only no-signup walkthrough	✅ Implemented
Local / Codespaces real-app path	✅ Implemented
Engineering showcase + recruiter brief	✅ Implemented
Public Launch Hub	✅ Implemented
Audience-specific Share Hub	✅ Implemented
Public GitHub adoption dashboard	✅ Implemented
Public Quality Gates surface	✅ Implemented
Route-level metadata + site-quality gate	✅ Implemented
Lighthouse quality budgets	✅ Implemented
Interactive action-scoped approval	✅ Implemented
Standing exact-patch authorization	✅ Implemented
Managed contributor workspace / forks	✅ Implemented
Runtime dependency-security gate	✅ Implemented
CodeQL + Dependabot	✅ Implemented
Safety/security/architecture documentation	✅ Implemented
Distribution + launch execution playbooks	✅ Implemented
Optional privacy-first site analytics hook	✅ Implemented, disabled by default
GitHub Dependency Review hard gate	🟡 Workflow ready; Dependency Graph must be enabled in repository settings
Real billing/payments	🟡 Planned
Per-user GitHub OAuth	🟡 Planned
Production multi-user database	🟡 Planned
Hosted multi-user SaaS operations	🟡 Planned

ContributorOps is a working open-source product and engineering architecture showcase, not a claim that a hosted production SaaS is already operating.

Contributing

The fastest contribution path:

1. open the public Contribute page
2. browse good first issue or help wanted
3. read CONTRIBUTING.md
4. read the Safety Policy before changing GitHub automation
5. run the relevant tests, type checks, builds, and quality gates
6. open a focused PR explaining user impact and safety implications

Contributor recognition is described in CONTRIBUTORS.md, and repeat-contributor practices are in docs/contributor-retention.md.

Tried the workflow but do not have a code change yet? Use the Workflow feedback issue template to report one concrete point of friction or improvement.

Measure, launch, learn

• Launch Hub — shortest evaluation path by audience
• Adoption Dashboard — live public GitHub signals
• docs/phase-8-launch-execution.md — current launch packets and execution rules
• docs/adoption-scorecard.md — GitHub traffic + adoption measurement model
• docs/distribution-playbook.md — audience, conversion, and anti-spam rules
• docs/share-kit.md — canonical copy and technical article angles
• Share Hub — audience-specific share links

The measurement system deliberately separates repository engagement from customer/user claims and keeps optional site analytics disabled unless explicitly configured.

Project principles

ContributorOps prioritizes:

• quality over contribution volume
• professional evidence over vanity activity
• explicit authorization over opaque automation
• maintainer trust over growth mechanics
• fail-closed exactness over unattended guessing
• explainable engineering work over empty GitHub metrics
• audience-specific distribution over mass promotion
• measurable learning over invented traction
• enforced quality gates over unverifiable engineering claims

License

BSD 3-Clause. See LICENSE.

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Try the browser demo. Inspect the source. Challenge the safety model. Contribute if you can make it better.