🛠️ maintainer-kit

Autonomous open-source maintainer toolkit: Repository health audits, semantic changelog generator, PR diff reviewer, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.

maintainer-kit automates the time-consuming administrative and review workflows that open-source maintainers face every day. Built with zero runtime dependencies, it runs instantaneously via CLI, acts as a GitHub Action in your CI pipelines, and connects directly to GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude as an MCP server.

✨ Features

• 🛡️ Repository Health & Security Audit: Audits open-source standards (LICENSE, README, CONTRIBUTING, SECURITY.md, .gitignore, workflows) and scans for accidentally tracked API keys or sensitive credentials.

• 📝 Semantic Changelog Generator: Parses commit history, groups changes by Conventional Commits, flags breaking changes, and formats release notes ready for GitHub Releases.

• 🔍 PR Diff & Code Smell Reviewer: Inspects git diffs for security risks (eval, raw SQL, leaked credentials), leftover debug statements (console.log, debugger), and computes PR risk ratings.

• 🏷️ Intelligent Issue Triager: Classifies incoming issues into categories (bug, feature, docs, perf), suggesting labels, priority, and next steps.

• 🤖 Native Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server: Exposes all maintainer tools over standard JSON-RPC stdio to AI assistants like VS Code Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Claude Desktop.

• ⚡ Composite GitHub Action: Easily pluggable into any repository's .github/workflows to run automated compliance checks on pull requests.

Related MCP server: GithubMCP

🚀 Quick Start

Run instantly with no installation required via npx:

# Audit the current repository's open-source health and compliance
npx maintainer-kit audit

# Generate release notes and changelog from commit history
npx maintainer-kit changelog

# Review uncommitted or staged changes for security smells and quality
npx maintainer-kit review --staged

# Triage an incoming issue
npx maintainer-kit triage "Uncaught exception on login" "App crashes with null pointer when token is expired"

Or install globally:

npm install -g maintainer-kit

📖 CLI Usage & Commands

1. Repository Audit (audit)

Scans the current repository against open-source community standards, missing governance files, sensitive credential leaks, and CI pipeline presence.

maintainer-kit audit

Options:

• --json: Output report as machine-readable JSON.

📋 OPEN-SOURCE REPOSITORY HEALTH AUDIT  100/100 PASS

Repository Path: /path/to/my-project

  ✔ PASS Open Source License
    Found standard file: LICENSE
  ✔ PASS README Documentation
    Found standard file: README.md
  ✔ PASS Contributing Guidelines
    Found standard file: CONTRIBUTING.md
  ✔ PASS Security Vulnerability Policy
    Found standard file: SECURITY.md
  ✔ PASS GitHub Actions CI Workflows
    Found 1 automated workflow file(s): ci.yml
  ✔ PASS Tracked Secrets & Credential Leak Scan
    No exposed secrets or API credentials detected in repository files.

Summary: 8 Passed, 0 Warnings, 0 Failures

2. Semantic Changelog (changelog)

Automatically aggregates commits into semantic groups: Features 🚀, Bug Fixes 🐛, Performance ⚡, Refactoring ♻️, Documentation 📚, and Breaking Changes ⚠️.

# Generate changelog from latest git tag to HEAD
maintainer-kit changelog

# Generate changelog from a specific release tag
maintainer-kit changelog --tag v1.0.0

3. PR Diff Reviewer (review)

Scans staged changes or compares against a base branch:

# Review staged git changes
maintainer-kit review --staged

# Review against main branch
maintainer-kit review --base main

4. Issue Triage (triage)

Classifies issue title and body to suggest categorization and labels:

maintainer-kit triage "Crash when clicking save" "App crashes with TypeError in store.js"

🤖 Model Context Protocol (MCP) Setup

maintainer-kit implements the open Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard. You can plug it into Claude Desktop, VS Code Copilot, Cursor, or ChatGPT.

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add the server to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "maintainer-kit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "maintainer-kit", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Available MCP Tools:

• maintainer_audit: Audit repository open-source compliance and file standards.

• maintainer_changelog: Generate release notes from git commit history.

• maintainer_review_diff: Review a git diff for vulnerabilities and code smells.

• maintainer_triage_issue: Triage and categorize an incoming issue.

⚡ Use as a GitHub Action

Add maintainer-kit to your continuous integration pipeline to audit every pull request:

Create .github/workflows/maintainer.yml:

name: Maintainer Audit

on:
  pull_request:
    branches: [main]

jobs:
  audit:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: leveluphamza14-cpu/maintainer-kit@v1
        with:
          command: 'audit'

💻 Programmatic Library API

You can also use maintainer-kit as a typed Node.js module:

import { runAudit, reviewDiff, generateChangelog, triageIssue } from "maintainer-kit";

// Run compliance audit
const audit = runAudit("./my-repo");
console.log(`Health Score: ${audit.score}/100`);

// Inspect a git diff
const review = reviewDiff({ staged: true });
console.log(`Risk Level: ${review.summary.riskLevel}`);

// Generate release notes
const changelog = generateChangelog({ version: "v1.1.0" });
console.log(changelog.markdown);

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are very welcome! Please check out CONTRIBUTING.md for instructions on setup, testing, and coding standards.

1. Fork this repository

2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feat/awesome-feature)

3. Commit your changes following Conventional Commits

4. Push to the branch (git push origin feat/awesome-feature)

5. Open a Pull Request

🛡️ License

This project is licensed under the MIT License © 2026 Hamza Adil.