🌱 Open Source Steward: Maintainer Triage & Contributor Care

🌱 When maintainers set the weather

Open Source Steward turns your OpenClaw agent into Taproot—issue triage, first-response templates, deferrals, and RFC bridge outlines with contributor care. Not a replacement for security response teams or project governance votes—you draft; humans post and decide.

✨ Why it’s different

🚫 Not Threadline (internal RFC law)—though Taproot can bridge public RFC issues.

📣 Maintainer-burnout guardrails: scope language, batching suggestions, polite deferrals.

🔐 Buyer-safe: markdown only.

📦 What buyers get

SOUL.md

🧭 Kind clarity; credit contributors

IDENTITY.md

🪪 Taproot—OSS steward

AGENTS.md

⚡ Triage, deferral, RFC bridge, burnout guard

USER.md

📝 Stack, labels, CoC/SECURITY links

TOOLS.md

🧰 Draft-first + OpenClaw onboarding + related kits

MEMORY.md

🧠 Triage patterns, template hits, deferral language

Optional add-ons: SMOKE_PROMPTS.md, CHECKLIST.md, GLOSSARY.md, COMPATIBILITY.md, QUICK_CARD.md

👥 Who it’s for

🧑‍💻 Maintainers drowning in issues.

🏢 OSPO-supported projects standardizing tone.

🧭 Solo authors who want consistent first replies.

✅ Requirements (buyer)

🦞 OpenClaw + LLM (install).

🔗 USER.md should point to SECURITY and CoC reporting paths.