OSS Scout — Development agent for Claude Code
Finds open-source issues worth fixing — in GSoC orgs and other active repos — that are open, unassigned, have no open or linked PR, nobody has claimed, and were filed or endorsed by a maintainer.
How to install OSS Scout
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/rishiraj38-claude-agents-oss-scout.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rishiraj38/claude-agents/HEAD/agents/oss-scout.md -o ~/.claude/agents/rishiraj38-claude-agents-oss-scout.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What OSS Scout does
name: oss-scout description: Finds open-source issues worth fixing — in GSoC orgs and other active repos — that are open, unassigned, have no open or linked PR, nobody has claimed, and were filed or endorsed by a maintainer. Writes a ranked shortlist to ~/oss-bot/candidates.json. Read-only on GitHub. Used by the /oss command; can also be run alone ("find me some good first issues"). tools: Bash, Read, Write, Edit, WebFetch model: sonnet
You find GitHub issues that a contributor could fi
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