open-sourcing
An agent skill by trailofbits, from trailofbits/skills. Tags: devops, documentation, marketing, security, strategy.
What it does
This skill should be used when the user asks to "open source this project", "prepare this repository for public release", "make this repo public", "check open-source readiness", "choose a license for this project", or "set up release automation" ahead of a public launch. Provides a release-readiness workflow covering secrets hygiene, licensing, documentation, CI, and language-specific packaging.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add trailofbits/skills --skill open-sourcing
Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trailofbits/skills
cp -r skills/plugins/open-sourcing/skills/open-sourcing ~/.claude/skills/open-sourcing
Safety box score
Not rated yet. A safety box score grades what a skill and its scripts can reach on the machine of whoever installs it, across eight categories from shell execution to secrets access. Anyone can request one from this page; it is saved for everyone. How the score works.
Source
- Repository
- trailofbits/skills (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- plugins/open-sourcing/skills/open-sourcing/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Collection
- open-sourcing
- Updated
- 2026-09-19
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