Contributor Onboarding

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name: contributor-onboarding
description: Create and operate a contributor path from project orientation through environment setup, issue selection, implementation expectations, review, and recognition.
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# Contributor Onboarding

Use when this procedure is the primary professional method needed for the assignment.

## Procedure
1. Confirm the decision or outcome this work must support, its scope, owner, constraints, and definition of success.
2. Establish the evidence baseline using CONTRIBUTING docs, setup scripts, issue taxonomy, review policy, code of conduct, and contributor feedback. Do not fill material gaps with assumptions when they can change the result.
3. Identify first-contribution friction, document verified setup, label appropriate starter work honestly, provide review expectations, and capture repeated blockers.
4. Exercise realistic edge, failure, transition, or exception cases that could invalidate the result; record unresolved uncertainty explicitly.
5. Validate the output against the original outcome and any neighboring professional contracts so this skill does not silently absorb another specialist's authority.
6. Record the resulting artifact, measurements, decisions, provenance, and handoff information needed for another owner to reproduce or continue the work.

## Quality gate
A new contributor can reach a validated first change without private maintainer knowledge.