# oss-contribution-advisor-mcp

> MCP server that helps developers find open-source issues worth contributing to — semantic issue search, repo health scoring, and downstream impact ranking.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/oss-contribution-advisor-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Sonali
- homepage: https://github.com/sonali1103/oss-contribution-advisor-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/sonali1103/oss-contribution-advisor-mcp
- version: 0.1.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agentic-ai, github, mcp, model-context-protocol, open-source
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:oss-contribution-advisor-mcp

### Description (declared)

# OSS Contribution Advisor — MCP Server

An MCP server that helps developers find open-source issues genuinely worth
contributing to — not just issues tagged "good first issue," but ones that
match their interests, come from a healthy/responsive repo, and have real
downstream impact.

## Why this exists

Existing "find your first OSS issue" tools filter by label only. This server
answers three questions a label can't:

1. **Does this match what I actually want to work on?** — semantic search
   over open issues (local sentence-embeddings), not keyword/label matching.
2. **Is this repo actually a good place to spend my time?** — health score
   based on maintainer responsiveness and first-time-contributor merge rate.
3. **Does this repo matter?** — ranks by *real* downstream reach via
   [libraries.io](https://libraries.io)'s dependents graph (how many other
   packages depend on this one) — not just GitHub stars.

## Tools

| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `match_issues_semantically` | Free-text interest → ranked list of matching open issues, using local sentence-embeddings. |
| `score_repo_fit` | Given a repo, scores maintainer responsiveness, PR merge rate, doc completeness, and recent activity into a 0-100 fit score. |
| `find_impact_multiplier_repos` | Ranks a given repo shortlist — or self-searches by language if none given — by real downstream dependents (libraries.io), falling back to a stars/forks proxy if unconfigured. |

## Caching design

Two genuinely different cache policies, because the underlying data has two
different change patterns — using one TTL for everything would either waste
API calls (too short) or serve stale data (too long):

| Cache | Key | Lifetime | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Search results** (`match_issues_semantically`) | GitHub search query string | 20 min TTL | Open issues genuinely change often, but repeated calls in a short window shouldn't re-hit the API. |
| **Issue embeddings** (`match_issues_semantically`) | `(issue_id, update…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.version-control (1, declared)
- data.vector-search (0.894, derived)
- dev.package-management (0.825, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/oss-contribution-advisor-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T09:25:03.702Z)

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