Maintainer Kit

Maintainer Kit is a small open-source CLI that helps project maintainers turn messy issues, pull requests, and changelog notes into clear next steps.

It works offline, has no paid dependencies, and is designed for maintainers who need quick summaries, labels, checklists, and release-note drafts without setting up a heavy workflow.

Why This Exists

Maintainers spend a lot of time doing repeated work:

• Reading long bug reports
• Asking for missing reproduction steps
• Reviewing pull requests
• Preparing release notes
• Helping new contributors understand the project

Maintainer Kit gives a fast first pass so maintainers can focus on judgment, quality, and community.

Features

• Issue triage summaries with suggested labels, priority, and missing information
• Pull request review checklists based on changed areas and risk signals
• Release note drafts grouped into features, fixes, docs, and maintenance
• Contributor onboarding checklist for new repositories
• Repository health doctor for README, license, changelog, tests, and community files
• Zero external dependencies

Install

npm install

Try The Demo

npm run demo

Usage

Analyze a bug report:

node src/cli.js issue examples/issue-bug.md

Return machine-readable JSON:

node src/cli.js issue examples/issue-bug.md --json

Analyze a pull request:

node src/cli.js pr examples/pull-request.md

Draft release notes:

node src/cli.js release examples/changelog-input.md

Check repository health:

node src/cli.js doctor .

Generate contributor onboarding guidance:

node src/cli.js onboard .

Every analysis command supports --json, which makes Maintainer Kit easier to use in GitHub Actions, dashboards, and custom maintainer automation.

Example Output

## Triage Summary

Suggested labels: bug, needs-reproduction, priority-medium
Priority: medium

What happened:
The app crashes after uploading a large CSV file.

Missing information:
- Expected behavior
- Environment details
- Minimal reproduction steps

Next maintainer action:
Ask for a small sample file and exact app version before debugging.

Roadmap

• GitHub Actions integration examples
• Optional OpenAI-powered summarization mode
• Configurable label rules
• Maintainer dashboard report

See docs/roadmap.md.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Start with CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT