Add analyze-innersource-video Claude Code skill - #925
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Adds a Claude Code skill that analyzes an InnerSource Commons community call video against this repo's pattern library: it fetches the talk's transcript and metadata, surveys adjacent patterns, and categorizes the talk's content into Known Instance candidates, clarifications to an existing pattern, or genuinely new pattern candidates - applying a "uniquely InnerSource" filter to screen out generic engineering advice that isn't specific to cross-team, cross-org contribution dynamics. The skill always proposes and asks for confirmation before editing any pattern file or opening a PR - it never auto-commits. This was already used manually to produce the Thales Group Known Instance PR (InnerSourceCommons#909); this commit is the first time the skill itself is checked into the repo rather than living only on one contributor's machine. Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| Extract every pattern's title + patlet via a small script (write to `.tmp/extract_patlets.py`). Read the resulting file in full — you want the patlet, not just the title, to judge relevance. |
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All patterns (title + patlet) should be available in https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/README.md#list-of-patterns
Not sure if pointing Claude to this directly would make things easier/faster/cheaper?
(I haven't used Claude myself)
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Two corrections per review: - Step 1 now accepts a transcript handed to it directly (the going-forward case: an automated source pulls a Zoom transcript once a community call finishes, with no YouTube URL involved at all) as well as a YouTube URL to fetch from - the URL-fetch path stays for backlog talks and one-off requests. - Step 8's "one concern per PR" is replaced with "one talk = one PR": bundle everything a single talk's analysis found - Known Instances across multiple patterns, clarifications, new pattern drafts - into one PR, matching how InnerSourceCommons#909 actually added Thales across five patterns in a single PR. Only split PRs across genuinely different source talks. Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per review: stop framing this as two parallel input paths ("YouTube URL
or transcript"). The skill takes a transcript - full stop; where it came
from is the caller's concern, not something this document needs to
branch on. YouTube-specific fetch mechanics (youtube-transcript-api,
yt-dlp) stay as a practical note for when a transcript still needs to be
pulled from a video, not as the document's primary framing. Generalizes
metadata field descriptions and "cite the source link" away from
video-specific phrasing, and retitles the output template's "Video
summary" to "Talk summary" to match.
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The old guidance ("one talk is one data point, not proof a pattern is
widely applicable") read as a reason to hold back drafting a genuine
new-pattern candidate. But this process only ever sees one talk at a
time, so that standard would mean a new pattern candidate never gets
drafted at all. Checked meta/contributor-handbook.md: maturity level 1
(Initial) has NO validation requirement - it's explicitly for a single
unstructured idea. One instance is what's needed for level 2
(Structured); only 3+ need level 3 (Validated). So the guidance now says
to draft at Initial from one talk, which is exactly what that level is
for - confirmed against Paired Onboarding Sprint (InnerSourceCommons#926), the first
pattern this skill has drafted this way.
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per Sebastian Spier's review: the repo's own README.md already has a "List of Patterns" section with every pattern's title and patlet, kept current as patterns are added (spot-checked against the newest merged pattern - it's there). Reading that one file directly is simpler and more reliable than writing and running a script to walk the patterns/ directory and regex out each Patlet section. Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Sebastian Spier <github@spier.hu>
…stance Topical keyword overlap (e.g. 'developer environment') isn't enough - the GDK/Internal Developer Platform mismatch on InnerSourceCommons#926 happened because a local dev tool got matched to a pattern about centralized, deployed platforms purely on theme.
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@rrrutledge I am happily merging this, so that anybody could use it.
I have not used Claude myself, therefore this possibly uniformed question:
How would a Claude user find out that this skill exists?
Does Claude discover it automatically when you point it to this repo?
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Summary
Checks in a Claude Code skill (.claude/skills/analyze-innersource-video/SKILL.md) that's been living only on one contributor's machine until now, despite already being used to produce a real merged PR (#909, Thales Group Known Instance).
The skill takes a YouTube URL of an InnerSource Commons talk and:
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