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FastAPI Good First Issues for Python

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Average annotated difficulty: 3.9/5 across 6,383 issues.
9% of 6,383 time estimates are one day or less.

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bug(server): no rate limiting on LLM-calling endpoints (/memories, /search, /generate-instructions) Open

rest-api

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

mem0ai/mem0#7260 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Dead upstream sessions cached on McpError in acquire() Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

IBM/mcp-context-forge#6685 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Redis availability ping has no timeout, hangs startup on blackholed Redis Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

IBM/mcp-context-forge#6683 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Duplicate Gateway.last_seen field in common/models.py Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

IBM/mcp-context-forge#6681 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Fail clearly when DEEPSEEK_API_KEY is missing Open

good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

ashrafee-dev/scamshield-api#64 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Validate DeepSeek responses with riskAssessment Open

good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

ashrafee-dev/scamshield-api#59 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Centralize supported audio MIME types Open

good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

ashrafee-dev/scamshield-api#57 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Validate MAX_FILE_SIZE configuration Open

good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

ashrafee-dev/scamshield-api#56 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Always clean up temporary audio files Open

good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

ashrafee-dev/scamshield-api#53 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Mock DeepSeek calls in endpoint tests Open

good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

ashrafee-dev/scamshield-api#45 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Add tests for unsupported audio formats Open

good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

ashrafee-dev/scamshield-api#43 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Add tests for oversized audio uploads Open

good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

ashrafee-dev/scamshield-api#42 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Add validation tests for invalid email payloads Open

good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

ashrafee-dev/scamshield-api#41 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Document the API endpoints in README Open

good first issue

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

ashrafee-dev/scamshield-api#39 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Document backend environment variables Open

good first issue

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

ashrafee-dev/scamshield-api#36 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Fix the email quickstart example Open

good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

ashrafee-dev/scamshield-api#35 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Add tests for the health check endpoint Open

good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

ashrafee-dev/scamshield-api#34 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Calling limit()/offset()/range() twice sends duplicate query params Open

bug python

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

supabase/supabase-py#1617 · Opened Sep 6, 2026
.not_.or_() silently drops the negation Open

bug Client Library - Python python

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

supabase/supabase-py#1616 · Opened Sep 6, 2026
Replace deprecated FastAPI on_event startup hook with lifespan Open

needs-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

wkentaro/osam#85 · Opened Sep 5, 2026
[DOCS]: leftover docstring/example gaps from password fail-closed hardening (PR #6570) Open

chore documentation triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

IBM/mcp-context-forge#6606 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
init_secrets.py password generation doesn't scale with PASSWORD_MIN_LENGTH_USER Open

devops security triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

IBM/mcp-context-forge#6605 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
wrapper.yml gateway boot missing PLATFORM_ADMIN_PASSWORD/DEFAULT_USER_PASSWORD (same gap fixed elsewhere in #6570) Open

ci devops triage

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

IBM/mcp-context-forge#6604 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
[问题/Issue] 章节13.2.5：示例代码中的 TripPlanRequest 未在 app.models.schemas 文件中定义 Open

documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

datawhalechina/hello-agents#872 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Hide the Settings option from the profile popover Open

enhancement triage ui-rewrite

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 85/100

IBM/mcp-context-forge#6598 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
upload_pdf: vestigial `files: list = None` parameter consumes the multipart stream before the manual form parse Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6182 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Federated tool errors from the anyio/httpx transport family surface as an empty "Tool invocation failed: " (str(root_cause) is ''); ExceptionGroup-wrapped timeouts bypass the typed timeout lanes Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

IBM/mcp-context-forge#6592 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 3, 2026
[TESTING]: Verify UnsupportedProtocolVersionError for unsupported protocol versions Open

1.5 MUST testing

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

IBM/mcp-context-forge#6562 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Startup fails with anyio 4.15: module 'anyio' has no attribute 'from_thread' Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

widgetti/solara#1197 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Document invite email (Resend/SMTP) in the deployment guide Open

documentation help wanted

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

Brohammad/VoxForge#45 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Playwright smoke for /examples/livekit Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

Brohammad/VoxForge#42 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Playwright coverage for the public /status page Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

Brohammad/VoxForge#39 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Group Dependabot pip and Actions updates Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

Brohammad/VoxForge#37 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Add make help as the default Makefile target Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

Brohammad/VoxForge#36 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Add .editorconfig so editors match ruff and LF Open

documentation good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

Brohammad/VoxForge#35 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Add a .dockerignore to shrink production build context Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

Brohammad/VoxForge#34 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Add a pre-commit hook for ruff check + format Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

Brohammad/VoxForge#21 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Playwright 375px smoke for public landing and /demo Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

Brohammad/VoxForge#20 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Add Discussion forms for Ideas and Show and tell Open

documentation good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

Brohammad/VoxForge#19 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Pin a welcome post in Discussions Q&A Open

documentation good first issue

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

Brohammad/VoxForge#18 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Refresh launch docs that still describe pre-Discussions / pre-Zendesk state Open

documentation good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

Brohammad/VoxForge#17 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Document how to enable MCP tools in the production image Open

documentation good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

Brohammad/VoxForge#16 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Add expected JSON snippets to examples/hello-voice Open

documentation good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

Brohammad/VoxForge#15 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[UI-REWRITE]: Recent Activity mock data no longer matches what the backend returns Open

triage ui-rewrite

Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 78/100

IBM/mcp-context-forge#6540 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
getMeteredTiers uses ES2023 Array.prototype.toSorted without fallback Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

polarsource/polar#14111 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Upgrade notes needed: FastAPI migration's deliberate wire-format and default changes (log timestamps, 422-vs-404, /settings redirect, loopback bind) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6094 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Add Magic Hour hosted MCP server to the catalog Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

IBM/mcp-context-forge#6525 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Community Sample: NEX Agent Co. — first live A2A + x402 dual-protocol on Base Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

a2aproject/a2a-samples#696 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Chat attachment permission grant/revoke has no cross-org ownership check (IDOR) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

pipeshub-ai/pipeshub-ai#3120 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Add Dockerfile for containerized deploy Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

bobbylite/service-template#4 · Opened Aug 31, 2026

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