# CONTRIBUTING.md

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/contributing-md/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

CONTRIBUTING.md is a community health convention used by open source projects on GitHub and other platforms to document how external contributors can participate. The file communicates contribution guidelines, pull request processes, issue reporting procedures, coding standards, development setup, testing expectations, and code of conduct references. GitHub recognizes CONTRIBUTING.md placed in the repository root, the .github folder, or the docs folder, and surfaces a link to it whenever a contributor opens a new issue or pull request.

## Kin Score — 11.0 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 11.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 1.4 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 0.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 4.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **CONTRIBUTING.md Format** — The CONTRIBUTING.md format is an unstructured Markdown convention that documents how to contribute to a project. GitHub recognizes the file in three locations checked in priorit...
- **CONTRIBUTING.md Related Conventions** — CONTRIBUTING.md is one of several community health files GitHub looks for when scoring a repository community profile. Sibling files include README.md, LICENSE, CODE_OF_CONDUCT....

## Plans (1)

- **Contributing Md Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Code Of Conduct, Collaboration, Community Health, Developer Guidelines, Documentation, GitHub, Markdown, Open-Source, Pull Requests, Repository

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/contributing-md/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.