developer-community-health Skill (samber): Health Metrics

Makes Claude build a metric set to measure the health of a developer community and write a report that ends in decisions.

Installs: 12.3K; on skills.sh
Stars: 7; on GitHub
Files: 5; besides SKILL.md
Updated: Nov 2026; last repo commit

developer-community-health routes your question first, then interviews you and builds a metric sheet that covers four pillars: activity, responsiveness, contributor funnel and sentiment. It labels each number as sourced, self-set or folklore, sets baselines before thresholds, and ends with a health report. A diagnosis mode starts from a symptom such as a quiet community.

SKILL.md says not to use it for launching a community or company-wide DevRel KPIs. It bundles one shell script, scripts/contributor-absence-factor.sh, that Claude can run on a local git repository.

Good for

Community managers asking whether a Discord, Slack or forum is dying
DevRel leads who need a community KPI set or a contributor funnel
OSS maintainers judging whether a project is healthy enough to depend on

Install developer-community-health

Claude Code

Copy this prompt.

Install the developer-community-health skill in Claude Code. Run this command:

/plugin marketplace add samber/developer-relations-skills
/plugin install developer-relations-skills@developer-relations-skills

Then check that it loaded and tell me how to use it.

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Paste it into Claude Code. It shows the change and asks before running it.

Install the whole set, not one skill: the README says the skills reference each other, so picking one leaves those pointers going nowhere. The repo tree holds 93 skill folders. Fourteen of them bundle .py or .sh files; developer-community-health bundles one, scripts/contributor-absence-factor.sh. The tree holds no hooks, agents or MCP config files.

From the project README. Source.

What's in the skill

When it loads

Designs and runs a developer community health measurement framework: activity, responsiveness, contributor-funnel and sentiment metrics, honest instrumentation, baseline-derived thresholds, and a report that ends in decisions. Use whenever someone asks how to measure their developer community, which community health metrics to track, whether their Discord, Slack or forum is dying, why the community feels quiet, or wants a community health dashboard, contributor funnel, community KPI set or engagement report - even if they only say "is our community doing OK". Do NOT use for launching a community (samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-community-launch) or company-wide devrel KPIs (samber/developer-relations-skills@devrel-metrics).

Sections in SKILL.md

Route before measuring
Interview
Workflow
The four pillars
Sourced, self-set, folklore
Thresholds and baselines
Instrumentation reality check
B2B versus individual-adoption communities
Diagnosis mode
Invocation examples
Output
Pass threshold
Failure modes
Memory
References

Key facts

Author: Samuel Berthe (named in SKILL.md metadata and plugin.json)
License: MIT (SKILL.md, plugin.json and the LICENSE file agree)
Version: 1.0.3 (SKILL.md metadata)
Installs on skills.sh: 12,326 (Nov 2, 2026)
GitHub stars: 7 for the whole samber/developer-relations-skills repo (Nov 2, 2026)
Last repo commit: Nov 1, 2026
What it includes: 6 files in the git tree including SKILL.md. 1 shell script.
Needs: SKILL.md lists nothing to install. The bundled scripts/contributor-absence-factor.sh needs bash 3.2+ plus git, grep, sort, uniq and awk (its header)
Part of: The developer-relations-skills plugin: 93 skill folders in the git tree
Works in: Claude Code, Claude.ai, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI, as the README documents

What it includes

Checks what you actually need before building anything
Read · Route before measuring
One question at a time until the metric sheet can be filled
Read · Interview
Starts from one primary outcome, then builds the metric sheet
Write · Workflow
Covers activity, responsiveness, contributor funnel and sentiment
Write · Four pillars
Labels where each number or threshold came from
Write · Sourced, self-set, folklore
Matches the mechanism to how many periods of history you have
Write · Thresholds and baselines
Works from a symptom to the pillar before building the full sheet
Read · Diagnosis mode
Report template with a worked example and a negative example
The format is in references/health-report-template.md.
Write · Health report
Counts how few people produce half the commits in a local git repository
Run with --help for options; it takes a repo path, a since-date, a percent and an author-exclude pattern.
Runs code · contributor-absence-factor.sh

From the official docs

Permissions

Low risk

developer-community-health is planning instructions plus one script, and it may save notes to devrel-context.md. Our advice: check that file before you commit it.

What it can do

Read your data
Create and change things
Delete things
Read-only mode

Watch out for

It may save notes to devrel-context.md
SKILL.md tells Claude to keep task and project context in devrel-context.md when memory lives in a file, or in the memory system your tool already uses. Check the file before you commit it. github.com
It can run a shell script on your git repo
The bundled script runs git log on the repository you name and pipes author names through grep, sort, uniq and awk, then prints a count. Its header lists bash, git, grep, sort, uniq and awk as requirements. github.com
The whole-set install adds 93 skills, 14 with scripts
The README says to install every skill. The git tree has 93 skill folders and 14 of them hold .py or .sh files. The tree holds no hooks, agents or MCP config files. github.com

Technical details

Turning on read-only	SKILL.md describes no read-only mode.
Sign-in and keys	SKILL.md names no account, key or token.
Scopes	Claude writes the plan or report in the conversation May save notes to devrel-context.md when memory lives in a file Can run bash scripts/contributor-absence-factor.sh against a local git repository

Questions

What does developer-community-health do?

It makes Claude turn "how is the community doing?" into a small set of metrics you can collect and read against a baseline. It covers activity, responsiveness, contributor funnel and sentiment.

How do I install it?

Use the install box at the top. The README says to install every skill in the repo because the skills point to each other, so the box shows whole-set routes.

Is my community dying?

It has a diagnosis mode for exactly that. It starts from the symptom, such as a quiet Slack, checks the activity pillar first, then the rest of the sheet.

Does it need scripts or tools?

No. The one script, contributor-absence-factor.sh, is an optional helper; SKILL.md says to compute the figure by hand from a contributor ranking if you cannot run scripts.

How is it different from devrel-metrics?

SKILL.md says not to use this skill for company-wide DevRel KPIs, and names devrel-metrics for that. This skill is about the community only.

Is it safe to install?

Claude can run one shell script that calls git on a repository you point it at. Claude may also save notes to a devrel-context.md file. See the permissions section for the script details.

Information

updated Nov 2, 2026

Repository: samber/developer-relations-skills
Folder: skills/developer-community-health

samber/developer-relations-skills skills.sh

Sources

Docs, issue trackers and discussions this page is built from.

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README · github.com
marketplace.json · github.com
plugin.json · github.com
developer-community-health SKILL.md · github.com
LICENSE · github.com
skills.sh listing · skills.sh
developer-community-health scripts/contributor-absence-factor.sh · github.com