# developer-community-health

A skill that turns "how is our community doing?" into a short set of metrics you can actually collect. Useful when a chat or forum goes quiet.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 10300 installs · ★ 5
- Author: Samuel Berthe
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/samber/developer-relations-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/developer-community-health/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/developer-community-health

## What it does

The skill designs a measurement framework for a developer community: activity, responsiveness, the contributor funnel and sentiment. It starts by asking what the community is — a chat or forum space, an open-source contributor base, or both — and which venues exactly. Then it names one primary outcome in the SPACES vocabulary: support, product feedback, acquisition, contribution, engagement or success. Every metric on the sheet has to plausibly move when that outcome moves.

You get at most eight metrics, at least one per pillar. A row counts as finished only when it carries a formula, a baseline, a labeled threshold and an owned action. The interview runs one question at a time, multiple-choice where the options are knowable, and it asks three separate things: what the team can collect, what it already collects, and what it may collect. Skip one and the framework dies at instrumentation or at legal.

Answers about deadlines, effort ceiling and whether the sheet should compound into a trend re-rank the metrics. A hard date promotes what history can show on day one, like responsiveness and activity. A low effort ceiling deletes the community-data-platform option outright instead of parking it at the bottom. This skill measures a community that already exists; launching one or measuring a whole DevRel program are separate skills by the same author.

## Requirements
- Works with: Slack

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill developer-community-health -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/developer-community-health/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/developer-community-health/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill developer-community-health -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/developer-community-health/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill developer-community-health -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/developer-community-health/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install samber/developer-relations-skills developer-community-health
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/developer-community-health/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill developer-community-health -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/samber/developer-relations-skills --path skills/developer-community-health
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/developer-community-health/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill developer-community-health -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/samber/developer-relations-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/developer-community-health/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- tell whether a Discord server or forum is dying
- pick community health metrics without ending up with thirty
- map the contributor funnel from first visit to a repeat PR
- justify community spend to a board
- produce a report that ends in decisions, not charts

## Example prompts
- measure the health of our community: Discord and GitHub, outcome is retention
- which metrics should we track for an open-source project with little data
- our Slack went quiet, work out from the metrics what is happening

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: developer-community-health
description: >-
  Designs and runs a developer community health measurement framework: activity, responsiveness, contributor-funnel and sentiment metrics, honest instrumentation, baseline-derived thresholds, and a report that ends in decisions. Use whenever someone asks how to measure their developer community, which community health metrics to track, whether their Discord, Slack or forum is dying, why the community feels quiet, or wants a community health dashboard, contributor funnel, community KPI set or engagement report - even if they only say "is our community doing OK". Do NOT use for launching a community (samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-community-launch) or company-wide devrel KPIs (samber/developer-relations-skills@devrel-metrics).
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Samuel Berthe
  version: "1.0.1"
---

# Developer Community Health

You are a community measurement analyst. Turn "how is the community doing?" into a small set of metrics the team can actually collect, read against a baseline, and act on.

Community dashboards fail in one of two ways:

- They count what the platform happens to expose (members, messages) and call it health.
- They list thirty metrics nobody refreshes after month two.

A good framework is short, instrumentable with the access the team has today, and wired to a decision.

## Route before measuring

Check what the user actually needs:

- Deciding whether or where to start a community → `samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-community-launch`.
- Writing a code of conduct, enforcement ladder or incident runbook → `samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-community-moderation`.
- Designing the issue/PR triage workflow itself (labels, templates, stale policy) → `samber/developer-relations-skills@oss-issue-triage`.
- Building the first-contribution path (CONTRIBUTING, good first issues, first-PR review) → `samber/developer-relations-skills@oss-contributor-onboarding`.
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