Software EngineeringOpen accessPublished 3 Oct 2026
Systematic pre-publish audit for a project about to go public on GitHub (open source release or portfolio piece). Use when a repo is about to get its first commit/push, or when the user says things like "ready to publish", "open source my project", "push to GitHub first time", "portfolio repo review", "is this repo ready for GitHub", "can I make this public", or asks to check for secrets/leftover artifacts before sharing a repo. Walks a checklist covering git repo scope, .gitignore coverage, secrets/PII sweep, LICENSE, README completeness, misleading naming, internal process docs, doc consistency, and CI — gathering evidence with shell commands and producing a blocker/rec…