docs(contributing): add the ladder, good-first-issue link - #127
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Frame agentseam's existing evidence section with the shared five-rung contribution ladder rather than duplicating it, point newcomers at the seeded good-first-issue list, and name the mechanism (DCO plus this repo's own dco/no-private-data CI checks) that filters low-effort or machine-generated PRs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What this changes
Adds the shared contribution ladder (
## The ladder) toCONTRIBUTING.md, placed between"Adding an agent adapter" and the existing "Contributing evidence" section so it frames that
section instead of duplicating it. Adds the seeded good-first-issue link under "What this
project is". Names the mechanism that filters low-effort or machine-generated PRs (DCO
sign-off plus this repo's own
dcoandno-private-dataCI checks) rather than moralisingabout it.
agentseam already had the fullest contributor-plumbing set in the org (
SECURITY.md,CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md,CITATION.cff,llms.txt,.github/CODEOWNERS,.github/dependabot.yml, and all six issue templates), so this PR touches onlyCONTRIBUTING.md— nothing else was added or changed.One fact checked rather than assumed: the capability matrix has 16 agents
(
len(matrix.MATRIX)againstsrc/agentseam/matrix.py), matching whatCONTRIBUTING.mdandthe evidence-report template already say ("twelve of sixteen"); no correction was needed there.
Claim check
Not applicable — no adapter or matrix change.
Checks
pytest -qpasses (1598 passed, 4 skipped)ruff check .andruff format --check .passgit commit -s)Notes for the reviewer
Deviation from the shared brief: the brief's boilerplate AI-contribution paragraph names "this
repo's own chock policies" as the mechanism. agentseam doesn't run chock against itself — it's
the layer chock is built on, not a chock consumer — so I named the mechanism this repo actually
runs (the
dcoandno-private-dataCI jobs) instead of claiming a tool this repo has noevidence of using on its own PRs, consistent with the file's own "never claim an enforcement a
vendor cannot deliver" rule.