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AutoGPT maintainer's playbook for AI-first contributors: 'It's basically somebody else paying for your compute'
GitHub published AutoGPT maintainer Nicholas Tindle's concrete gates for a 180,000-star repo with ~150 open PRs and ~800 contributors, a significant share of them now written by Copilot, OpenClaw and AutoGPT's own tools. The recommended stack is discovery-based instruction files (CLAUDE.md and directory-scoped AGENTS.md, plus skills that trigger on task match) paired with hard enforcement: PR template compliance with automatic closure, a mandatory test plan that triggers automated testing, codecov thresholds as required checks, commit-SHA requirements before resolving review threads, and a CLA checkbox as human verification.
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