Open Source — Documentation skill for Claude Code
Agent skill (Claude Code, OpenCode) that generates a project's complete open source governance: README, LICENSE, REUSE/SPDX, CONTRIBUTING and more.
How to install Open Source
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open igarbayo/open-source and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Open Source does
Agent skill (Claude Code, OpenCode) that generates a project's complete open source governance: README, LICENSE, REUSE/SPDX, CONTRIBUTING and more. Works for any project, hackathon included.
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README
open-source
[](https://skills.sh/igarbayo/open-source) [](https://api.reuse.software/info/github.com/igarbayo/open-source) [](https://scorecard.dev/viewer/?uri=github.com/igarbayo/open-source) [](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/13965)
**English** · [Español](README.es.md)
npx skills add igarbayo/open-sourceA skill in the **Agent Skills** format (an open standard) for **Claude Code** and **OpenCode** that sets up the complete open source governance of a project following FSF and OSI best practices. It solves the problem of starting (or releasing) an open source repository, whether it comes from a **hackathon** or from real work.
It removes the need to remember which documents are required, what each one must contain, or where each file goes. The skill asks which parts you want to implement, generates only those, and asks only for the data they need.
The skill's instructions are written in English, but **the documentation it generates can be in any language**: that is one of the questions it asks, with English as the default.
The command above works on any agent the [skills CLI](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills) detects. The other routes — Claude Code marketplace, manual clone, OpenCode — are in [Installation](#installation).
Features
Through an initial survey, the skill can generate the following artifacts at the user's choice:
| Artifact | Description |
|---|---|
| README.md | Project entry point: purpose, installation, examples, troubleshooting. |
| LICENSE | OSI license (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD-3-Clause, GPL-3.0, AGPL-3.0) with a guided recommendation. |
| REUSE.toml | Licensing metadata compliant with the REUSE/SPDX spe |
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