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Average annotated difficulty: 3.8/5 across 929,576 issues.
11% of 929,576 time estimates are one day or less.

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A general-purpose language from 1991 (Guido van Rossum). Readable by design, and the default choice for data science, machine learning and scripting.

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last-mile drop-off on this SKILL.md Open

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

wshobson/agents#717 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Pusher trigger WebSocket reads the webhook config on the event loop Open

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

BasedHardware/omi#15290 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Agent: empty B_action_dependencies entry ([[0], []]) fails with a batch-size error Open

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

infer-actively/pymdp#454 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bounty proposal] fix(app): Developer Mode shows all webhooks off when the status call fails ($25 proposed) Open

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

BasedHardware/omi#15285 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
cron: _owner_is_live() rejects a live process on an exact start-time compare, marking running executions unknown Open

comp/cron P2 type/bug

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

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117505 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bounty proposal] fix(backend): clearing one chat deletes every chat file on the account ($25 proposed) Open

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

BasedHardware/omi#15274 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026
doc: fix remaining broken docs.nvidia.com links in root README Open

documentation status: needs triage

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

NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails#2395 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Add your open-source MCP server Open

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

public-apis/public-apis#7440 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bounty proposal] fix(web): app screenshots are dropped when you save the app ($25 proposed) Open

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

BasedHardware/omi#15268 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Correct stale ENMMT and enmmt/master public identity references Open

bug

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

uibcdf/elastnetmt#11 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Calendar delete and update tools resolve the access grant on the event loop Open

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

BasedHardware/omi#15265 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
tl.feature_signature returns an object io.validate rejects Open

bug

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

scverse/mantispy#103 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bounty proposal] fix(web): a failed memory delete leaves the card stuck ($25 proposed) Open

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

BasedHardware/omi#15251 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bounty proposal] fix(web): the task due date picker shows the wrong day near midnight ($25 proposed) Open

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

BasedHardware/omi#15248 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Installed gdcmConfigure.h leaks build-machine paths and an unevaluated generator expression Open

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

InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK#6876 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
proxmox_ceph_pool: target_size_ratio must be float, not int Open

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

ansible-collections/community.proxmox#524 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Feature] Make RAG UPLOAD_EXTS configurable via environment variable Open

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

unslothai/unsloth#11385 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bounty proposal] fix(web): toggling the daily summary can reset its delivery time ($25 proposed) Open

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

BasedHardware/omi#15245 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Clarify package-relative links and committed target-owned directories Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/apm#3045 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Metadata correction for 2025.naacl-long.159 Open

approved correction metadata

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

acl-org/acl-anthology#10023 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Metadata correction for 2025.emnlp-main.1571 Open

approved correction metadata

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 78/100

acl-org/acl-anthology#10022 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bounty proposal] fix(app): a failed training data status check offers the opt-in again ($25 proposed) Open

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

BasedHardware/omi#15241 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Logo upload window does not specify allowed file types Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

pretix/pretix#6574 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bounty proposal] fix(backend): chat only knows about 3 of your goals ($25 proposed) Open

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

BasedHardware/omi#15236 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Feature request : Add 'application' parameter for ceph pools Open

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

ansible-collections/community.proxmox#523 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Account history records the opposite of what happened when notifications are turned on or off Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 94/100

fossasia/eventyay#5786 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
kanban show --json omits max_runtime_seconds, so a runtime cap cannot be verified from the CLI Open

comp/cli comp/cron P3 type/bug

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

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117433 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[BUG] examples/tau2: _clean_messages(for_user=True) deletes the user simulator's own tool calls and results, breaking the telecom domain Open

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

areal-project/AReaL#1741 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Silent smart-approval failure mode: empty-verdict guardian responses log at DEBUG only (or not at all), invisible at default log levels Open

comp/tools P2 type/bug

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

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117428 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
StaticEmbedding.from_distillation ignores auto-detected device Open

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

huggingface/sentence-transformers#4055 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
NNX MultiHeadAttention: is_causal=True during decode attends only to key position 0 Open

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

google/flax#5591 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
homewizard: Watermeter total usage sensor suggests ft³ regardless of configured unit system Open

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

home-assistant/core#182792 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bot] Ad/Parking Redirect Report Open

report

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

emmabostian/developer-portfolios#4233 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
stubtest flags PEP 661 `sentinel` defaults, but not `object()` markers Open

bug

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

python/mypy#22013 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[lldb] TestSynthesizedPropertyAccessor failed with an unrelated PR Open

lldb test-suite

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

llvm/llvm-project#224948 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[BUG] GeometricMeanAbsoluteError class drops the zero-error epsilon guard, diverging from the function and its own docstring Open

bug

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

sktime/sktime#11223 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bug]: web_fetch bypasses HTTP error handling for non-HTML responses, caching 4xx/5xx errors as successful raw content Open

area: tools priority: p3 status: needs review type: bug

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

use-agent-os/agent-os#3231 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Marketplace search shows "Search Results (0)" when the search API returns 500 Open

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

BasedHardware/omi#15215 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Fix it so long strings don't cause the page to get wider on mobile Open

Affects: Mobile/Responsive Affects: UI Module: CSS Needs: Breakdown Needs: Lead Needs: Triage Type: Bug

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

internetarchive/openlibrary#13683 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
feat: add originalUriBaseIds to SARIF output for GitHub Code Scanning file links Open

enhancement

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

yunaremaia/driftcheck#246 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
fix(cron): expired one-shot schedules can incorrectly retain synthetic Slack thread origins Open

comp/cron P2 platform/slack sweeper:risk-message-delivery type/bug

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

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117357 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Add third-party type stubs to the mypy tox environment Open

typing

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

astropy/astropy#20443 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Docs say approvals.mode defaults to smart, but code falls back to manual when the key is absent Open

area/config comp/tools P2 sweeper:risk-compatibility type/bug

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

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117341 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
bbh: declared dataset_samples is 250 but the default task evaluates 6509 Open

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

UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_evals#2487 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
apps: declared dataset_samples is 5000 but the default task evaluates 3000 Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 94/100

UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_evals#2486 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bounty proposal] main is red: enable_app_endpoint test misses the new request argument ($50 proposed) Open

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

BasedHardware/omi#15195 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
pedalboard riscv64 support Open

wheel

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

riseproject-dev/python-wheels#2134 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Validate Monte Carlo iteration counts when creating FWECorrector Open

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

neurostuff/NiMARE#1153 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
good first issue: walk the newcomer path and record exactly where it breaks Open

documentation good first issue help wanted

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

MSKazemi/idkmesh#542 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026
good first issue: independently verify the benchmark publication counts Open

documentation good first issue help wanted

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

MSKazemi/idkmesh#541 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

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