open-source-hardening-skills

Get a deep external review of an open-source hardening pass from Codex MCP. Use when the user wants a senior maintainer-style review of repository or paper-code release readiness, wants a score and minimum-fix list before publishing, or wants the oss-hardening pipeline to end with an external open-source quality gate.

Orchestrate an end-to-end open-source hardening pass for a repository. Use when the user wants to turn a loose codebase or paper-code release into a readable, testable, maintainable open-source project and wants audit, plan, refactor, tests, CI, and docs to run as one continuous workflow unless a blocker appears.

Autonomous multi-round open-source review loop. Repeatedly reviews a repository via Codex MCP, applies the minimum hardening fixes, and re-reviews until the repository or paper-code release is ready or max rounds are reached. Use when the user says "review until it passes", "open source review loop", "maintainer review loop", or wants the oss-hardening pipeline to end with an external quality gate and iterative fixes.

Search GitHub and the web for reference repositories, code patterns, CI examples, and open-source best practices. No API keys required. Use when the user says "find similar repos", "search GitHub", "look up best practices", or when oss-audit / oss-refactor needs external reference material.

Improve the repository's open-source documentation and metadata. Use when the user says "improve docs", "make this repo easier to adopt", "fix the README", or wants README polish plus SECURITY.md, CHANGELOG.md, FAQ, architecture notes, and paper-release metadata.

Add or improve a minimal GitHub Actions CI pipeline for linting and tests. Use when the user says "set up CI", "add GitHub Actions", "block bad PRs", or wants a cache-enabled pull-request workflow that runs without secrets.

Build the smallest effective automated test loop for a repository. Use when the user says "add tests", "make this CI-safe", "cover the important paths", or wants a minimal but meaningful test strategy with mocks instead of secrets or live services for either product code or research code.

Apply careful structure and style hardening to a repository without unnecessary churn. Use when the user says "refactor for maintainability", "set up linting/formatting/types", "clean up this repo", or wants the minimum structural changes needed to make a project easier to maintain.

Convert an open-source hardening audit into an executable implementation plan. Use when the user says "turn this audit into a plan", "make a checklist", "write a GitHub issue", or wants a PR-ready checklist with acceptance criteria and commands for a software repo or paper-code release.

Audit an existing repository or paper-code release for open-source hardening gaps across correctness, maintainability, testability, security, performance, observability, and documentation. Use when the user says "audit this repo", "harden this project", "open source readiness", or wants a prioritized file-level report before changing code.