contributor-pipeline-gardening

# Contributor pipeline gardening — awesome-claude (HeyClaude) HeyClaude is a curated registry/directory of Claude and AI-workflow assets, plus the website (`apps/web`), registry/schema library (`packages/registry`), and MCP package (`packages/mcp`) that serve it. **This is a much smaller, quieter repo than loopover/metagraphed** — as of 2026-07-17 it had zero open `gittensor:*`-labeled issues and a thin, fully-closed 2-milestone history. This skill exists to build and then maintain a small, deliberately curated backlog — **15-25 contributor-available issues**, not 50-100 — because padding a codebase this size to a larger number would mean weak/duplicate issues, which is explicitly worse than a smaller real backlog here. ## The one thing this skill exists to prevent **Confirmed by the maintainer, 2026-07-17:** contributors here have recently gravitated to `test(...): cover X` PRs — real tests, but zero behavior change, added purely to nudge Codecov's `codecov/patch: 70%` bar (a soft, easily-hit target — unlike loopover's 99% gate, 70% patch coverage is trivially satisfied by testing already-written code). A second anti-pattern found during this skill's initial research: issue #550 (a "growth sprint" umbrella with a long child checklist) was being farmed almost entirely for its single easiest repeatable pattern — wiring one more page into the existing `intent-event`/analytics-click convention, dozens of near-identical PRs (#5205, #5202, #5201, ... #5168, all `Made with Curso...