oss-signal

OSS Maintainer Signal

oss-signal is a maintainer-readiness CLI and GitHub Action for open-source projects that need repeatable repository health checks, CI evidence, inventory reports, SARIF output, issue-ready cleanup notes, PR-sized maintainer plans, and no-fail workflow trials.

Quick Start

Run against a public GitHub repository without cloning it:

npx oss-signal SalmonPlays/oss-signal

Run as a GitHub Action:

- uses: SalmonPlays/oss-signal@v0.8.4
  id: oss-signal
  with:
    path: "."
    format: markdown
    output: oss-signal-report.md

What It Checks

• README, license, contributing, security, support, and changelog files
• CI, tests, CodeQL, Dependabot, issue templates, and PR templates
• GitHub repository URL audits without cloning
• Inventory reports across multiple repositories
• Markdown, JSON, SARIF, issue-ready, maintainer-plan, and workflow output formats

Reviewer Evidence

• Reviewer evidence quickstart
• Evidence ledger
• Trust center
• Adoption evidence
• Adoption kit
• Maintainer trial
• Maintainer feedback
• Social launch kit
• Maintainer playbook
• Architecture
• Security model
• JSON output contract
• Maintainer plan output
• SARIF Code Scanning walkthrough
• Roadmap
• Rules and scoring weights
• Post-submission update
• Release process
• Marketplace publishing checklist

Public Links

• Repository: https://github.com/SalmonPlays/oss-signal
• npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/oss-signal
• GitHub Action tag: https://github.com/SalmonPlays/oss-signal/tree/v0.8.4
• GitHub Marketplace listing: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/oss-signal
• Maintainer workflow discussion: https://github.com/SalmonPlays/oss-signal/discussions/5

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