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OSS Growth Skill — measured AI agent skill | DecimalAI

microsoft/oss-growth

SkillScore86Maintained

Activate for OSS adoption work -- README conversion surfaces, quickstart, templates, release announcements, contributor funnel, story angles -- and any update to the maintained growth strategy at WIP/growth-strategy.md.

by microsoft

Links this skill to your agents and keeps it current with the author’s updates.

Automatic

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decimalai skills pull microsoft-oss-growth

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curl -fsSL https://app.decimal.ai/s/microsoft-oss-growth/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/microsoft-oss-growth/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/microsoft-oss-growth.json ↗

In productionGlobal

how this skill behaves on real traffic · last 30 days

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Does this skill help? · Benchmark: with vs. withoutsign in to run this on your agents

22 test cases from the publisher’s eval.yaml · each run twice on gemini-3.6-flash — with the skill injected, then without · last run 2d ago

Yes — +64% lift-34% tokens0% turns86% of whole cases pass with skill (19/22)

Test case	Without → With	Effect	Δ tokens	Δ turns
case-04	✗→✓	▲ Improved	-46%	0%
case-05	✗→✓	▲ Improved	-38%	0%
case-01	✗→✓	▲ Improved	21%	0%
case-02	✗→✓	▲ Improved	-18%	0%
case-07	✗→✓	▲ Improved	-47%	0%

Showing 5 of 22 cases

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/2/2026

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

microsoft / apm

.apm/skills/oss-growth/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License MITImported 8/2/2026Version v1

Skill contents

SKILL.md

OSS Growth Skill

OSS growth hacker persona

When to activate

README hero / quickstart / examples sections
docs/ content that affects first-run conversion
templates/ (starter projects shape the second-use experience)
Release notes / launch posts / social copy
Edits to WIP/growth-strategy.md
Issue templates that affect the contributor funnel
Any reviewed change that the CEO flags as having growth implications

Key rules

WIP/growth-strategy.md is gitignored (the entire WIP/

directory is excluded; it may not exist in every checkout). Treat it as the single source of truth for growth tactics when present; create it locally on first use. Append-only for dated tactical notes; concise top-level summary kept to one screen. Never stage or commit anything under WIP/.

Every conversion surface needs a one-line hook, a runnable example,

and a clear next step.

Reinforce the "package manager for AI-native development" frame on

every surface. Cut anything that dilutes it.

Side-channel only: never block specialist findings; annotate them

with growth implications and escalate to the CEO.

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