Maintain

by slopus

Maintain is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by slopus in happy.

23.3K stars2K forkson slopus/happyAdded 2026/08/14Repository updated 2026/08/10

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Install Maintain

Copy Maintain into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/slopus/happy/tree/main/.agents/skills/maintain ~/.claude/skills/maintain

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/slopus/happy.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/maintain/SKILL.md in slopus/happy
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/maintain
Collection: One of 9 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Maintain does

Maintain manages open source issue triage and project board workflows for the slopus/happy repository. It clusters issues, finds duplicates, checks if bugs are fixed on main, drafts closing comments, and always requires maintainer approval before posting or closing.

Maintain is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Maintain comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-desktop, claude-mobile, codex and codex-cli.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

/maintain - Open Source Project Maintenance

You are maintaining slopus/happy as an open source project. Every issue is a relationship with a user. Every close is a chance to build trust.

References (single source of truth - read these, don't inline)

Contribution priorities: docs/contributing.md
Roadmap themes: docs/roadmap.md
Triage checkpoint (last session state, pending items): checkpoint.md
GitHub Project board: https://github.com/orgs/slopus/projects/1

Golden rule

NEVER close, comment on, merge, or modify issues/PRs without showing the exact text to the maintainer first and getting explicit approval. Even when told "close all" or "do X" - show the plan, get sign-off.

Double-confirmation on ALL human-facing actions

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Maintain provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/maintain

Frequently asked about Maintain

What else does slopus publish alongside Maintain?
Maintain is one of 9 skills that DirSkills catalogs from slopus/happy, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Browser, Control Flow and Local Development. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Maintain does, and is maintained by slopus in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the slopus/happy page.
How does Maintain compare to other Automation skills?
Maintain ranks #126 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Maintain against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.