Magpie Good First Issue Author Agent Skill
| Draft a single net-new *good first issue* on the configured `<upstream>` repo from one supplied candidate such as a known gap or a small maintainer-named task. The skill first runs a suitability gate to confirm the candidate is small and newcomer-safe. If it passes the skill drafts one issue. The draft carries scope, code pointers, contributing-doc links, acceptance criteria, and an effort estimate. A readiness checklist gates the draft before it is shown. Nothing is filed via `gh` until the maintainer explicitly confirms. The skill never curates or relabels the existing backlog.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/apache/magpie --skill magpie-good-first-issue-authorOther skills for the same job
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How to use it
Take apache/magpie-good-first-issue-author from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.