Hey HN! Recently, I wanted to sharpen my 'GitHub skills' a little bit, and learn more about how people collaborate in companies and bigger repos. I started by trying to understand pull requests. For me, the better way to really LEARN something new is to try and build around it, and so that's exactly what I set out to do.

The idea is simple: build a simple repository maintainer (or curator, as I like to call it) that will decide whether pull requests will be merged or rejected. But this is not very interesting; lots of companies are trying to automate coding, and now you can even conjure Copilot on GitHub to handle issues and other stuff. The interesting twist here is the ingredient of self-reference: what if the repository guidelines were themselves contained in the repo, and modifiable by pull requests?

I found this idea very compelling, and completely got sidetracked in my quest to get better at GitHub, so here it is, a repository curated by AI-Curator-9000: https://github.com/frotaur/AICurated. Please feel free to submit a pull request, but be quick, as the guidelines are quite open at the moment, so the first people who get there will get to shape the repo quite a bit (unless a jailbreaker enters the game?).

The code that runs the Curator is open-sourced and can be found here: https://github.com/frotaur/ClaudeCurator

May you have a fruitful collaboration with AI-Curator-9000!