Is First Maintainer Month free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

First Maintainer Month

Q: How do I know the First Maintainer Month output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The support-expectations paragraph exists and matches the maintainer's; real hours (halved), not their guilt; The vision line is specific enough to justify a concrete future no; Bug template demands repro; feature template demands the problem.

🔵 Stable 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-maintainer

Set up a new open-source project's first month so it can grow without eating its maintainer — the README that routes people correctly, CONTRIBUTING boundaries written before there are contributors, issue templates that pre-triage, a release rhythm, and the sustainability defaults (what you owe no one). Use when someone says 'my repo is getting attention', 'I just open-sourced something', 'set up my project properly', or their first PR from a stranger just landed. Produces the docs set, the templates, and the month-one routine.

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✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓The support-expectations paragraph exists and matches the maintainer's

✓real hours (halved), not their guilt

✓The vision line is specific enough to justify a concrete future no

✓Bug template demands repro; feature template demands the problem

✓Everything fits a 0-contributor project today — no governance LARP

✓(CoC yes; steering committees no)

✓The walk-away clause appears — sustainability includes the exit

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not import big-project governance onto a two-week-old repo —

process should trail traction, not lead it

Do not promise response times the maintainer can't keep on a bad

month — under-promise in writing

Do not write CONTRIBUTING as a wall of rules; it's a welcome with

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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