Show HN: Repo Pilot – AI that helps you find your next open-source contribution (repopilot.live)

🤖 AI Summary
Repo Pilot is an AI tool that helps developers find tailored open-source contributions by analyzing any public GitHub repository. You paste a repo URL, the system fetches repository metadata, issues, labels and file contents, then uses AI to categorize issues by difficulty and surface practical contribution ideas — from documentation fixes to “good first issues.” It also recommends tasks matched to your skill level and gives actionable guidance to get started on a chosen issue. For the AI/ML community this lowers the barrier to contributing and speeds onboarding: automated issue triage and personalized suggestions can increase contributor engagement, reduce maintainer triage load, and turn vague tasks into concrete first PRs. Technically, Repo Pilot appears to combine repository scraping (issues, labels, file tree, docs) with natural-language understanding to classify difficulty and generate step-by-step contribution plans. Important implications include opportunities for GitHub App integration, improved contributor retention through personalization, and caution around AI hallucination or outdated repo state — maintainers should verify suggestions and privacy/security boundaries should be respected since the tool only accepts public repos.
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