# Rseng Community Metrics > >- - **Type:** Skill - **Install:** `agentstack add skill-fdiblen-rseng-agent-skills-rseng-community-metrics` - **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior - **Seller:** [fdiblen](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/fdiblen) - **Installs:** 0 - **Category:** [Data & Analytics](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/data-and-analytics) - **Latest version:** 0.1.0 - **License:** MIT - **Upstream author:** [fdiblen](https://github.com/fdiblen) - **Source:** https://github.com/fdiblen/rseng-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/rseng-community-metrics ## Install ```sh agentstack add skill-fdiblen-rseng-agent-skills-rseng-community-metrics ``` Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent. ## About # Community health metrics A community's health can be measured, and the CHAOSS project has standardized how: metrics for growth, responsiveness, retention and risk that turn "the community feels quiet lately" into checkable numbers. The same discipline as rseng-software-metrics applies unchanged: metrics LOCATE community problems, humans judge them; trends beat snapshots; and every metric can be gamed, so keep them plural and tie them to actions. ## The metrics that matter, and their sources Nearly everything comes from data the forge already has - git history, issues, PRs, reviews - all computable by an agent: - Growth and activity: new contributors per period, active contributors (authored, reviewed, triaged or commented - count ALL contribution kinds, the rseng-citation-metadata lesson), contribution volume by type. - Responsiveness: time to first response on issues and PRs (the promise rseng-community-governance made checkable), review latency, time to merge or close. First-response time is the single best predictor of whether a first-time contributor returns. - Retention and the funnel: how many first-time contributors make a second contribution (the conversion rate), casual-to-regular progression, time since last activity for previously regular contributors (quiet departures are findable before they are final). - Risk: bus factor (what fraction of recent work concentrates in how few people - the elephant-factor framing), single-maintainer subsystems, organizational concentration when affiliation is known. Compute from `git log`, the forge API and the tracker; CHAOSS tooling (Augur/GrimoireLab-class) automates it at scale, but a scripted quarterly pass covers most research projects (a natural milestone-review input - rseng-code-review). ## Interpreting honestly - Stage calibrates everything (rseng-quality-framework's tiering instinct): a two-person analysis-code repo with bus factor 1 is normal; infrastructure with bus factor 1 is a risk register entry. Compare the project against its own history first, peers second, absolutes never. - Watch trends, alert on inflections: slowly rising first-response time is load or fading attention - both actionable; a cliff after a maintainer change is a succession problem (rseng-community-governance). - Name the denominator: "12 new contributors" means nothing without the period and the definition; publish definitions with numbers so the metric survives scrutiny (rseng-research-integrity's spirit applied to community claims). - Diversity and affiliation metrics involve personal data: use public information, aggregate, and route anything finer to policy (rseng-regulatory-compliance). ## From numbers to actions Every reported metric ends with a routing, or it is a vanity dashboard: - Slow first response -> triage rotation and a stated timeframe (rseng-community-governance, rseng-project-tracking). - Poor first-to-second contributor conversion -> onboarding fixes (rseng-contributor-onboarding owns the funnel). - Support load rising in issues -> FAQ and docs routing (rseng-user-support, rseng-documentation). - Bus factor concentration -> knowledge spreading: rotation, documentation, succession planning (rseng-maintenance-sustainability). - Good numbers -> tell the community; measured health is a celebration and a grant-report asset (rseng-science-communication, rseng-management-planning). Report metrics to the community transparently on a cadence - a short health section in the periodic digest (rseng-project-tracking's high-level log) normalizes measurement and builds trust; surprise metrics deployed in conflict destroy it. ## Working with this skill This skill is source-independent: its authority is the CHAOSS metrics definitions and community-health practice linked below. It is the measurement arm of rseng-community-governance, the community analogue of rseng-software-metrics. Learn more (verified): - https://chaoss.community - CHAOSS community health metrics - https://www.cscce.org - Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement - https://opensource.guide - open source guides (community sections) ## Related skills Check whether any of these applies before moving on: - rseng-community-governance - metrics route to governance actions - rseng-contributor-onboarding - fixes the funnel leaks found - rseng-maintenance-sustainability - bus-factor risk response - rseng-management-planning - grant reports need community evidence - rseng-software-metrics - same measurement discipline, code side - rseng-user-support - support load is a signal ## Source & license This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code. - **Author:** [fdiblen](https://github.com/fdiblen) - **Source:** [fdiblen/rseng-agent-skills](https://github.com/fdiblen/rseng-agent-skills) - **License:** MIT Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above. ## Pricing - **Free** — Free ## Security capabilities Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access: - **Network access:** no - **Filesystem access:** no - **Shell / process execution:** no - **Environment & secrets:** no - **Dynamic code execution:** no *"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.* ## Versions - **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source. ## Links - Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-fdiblen-rseng-agent-skills-rseng-community-metrics - Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/fdiblen - Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse --- Listed on AgentStack — the marketplace for AI agent skills and MCP servers. 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