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A "good first issue" is a GitHub issue maintainers have labelled as suitable for newcomers — usually small, well-described, and low-risk. "Help wanted" issues are similar invitations for outside contributors.

Good First Issues in Python

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24+ open beginner issues

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August 6, 2026 last updated

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SatoryKono/BioactivityDataAcquisition

📋 Рефакторинг scripts/schema — организация в подмодули по функциональности

opened today0 comments

enhancementgood first issuecleanuprefactoring

mloda-ai/mloda

process_nested_features hardcodes the in_features key string instead of DefaultOptionKeys

opened today0 comments

buggood first issue

mloda-ai/mloda-registry

point_arithmetic matches single-operand names it cannot compute

opened today0 comments

buggood first issue

anam-org/metaxy

[integration] Rivers

opened today0 comments

enhancementgood first issuecomplexity/mediumintegration

SatoryKono/BioactivityDataAcquisition

📋 Консолидация scripts/memory — перенос канонической реализации из src/memory/

opened today0 comments

enhancementgood first issuerefactoringtooling

anujja/DoNotNotify-rules

Most wanted: apps that need rules

opened today0 comments

help wanted

Judgment-Pack/judgment-pack-evaluator-experiments

Stop tracking generated Python bytecode

opened today0 comments

buggood first issue

Judgment-Pack/judgment-pack-evaluator-experiments

Bring the root study index up to date

opened today0 comments

documentationgood first issue

martian56/redcell

Write an architecture and engine-internals guide

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documentationgood first issue

martian56/redcell

Add linting to CI: ruff (Python) and ESLint (frontend)

opened today0 comments

good first issueci

AnthropicBots/hiero-bot-py

PR-health comment and label thresholds can disagree, leaving unexplained labels

opened today0 comments

help wanted

AnthropicBots/hiero-bot-py

Stale-issue scan isn't paginated — repos with >100 open issues get partial scans

opened today0 comments

help wanted

abduznik/bitbox

[tool] is_power_of_two

opened today0 comments

help wantedgood first issuetool request

abduznik/bitbox

[tool] floor

opened today0 comments

help wantedgood first issuetool request

Piyushtanwani/DAU-buddy

Improve Room availability queries

opened today0 comments

enhancementhelp wanteddau internal

ShenSeanChen/waku-agent

The retrieval gate's accuracy has never been measured

opened today1 comment

help wanted

hiero-hackers/analytics

Add a --fail-fast flag to the full pipeline run

opened today1 comment

enhancementgood first issuepython

AgentPostmortem/VaultRAG

Cases with an unresolvable principal score recall 0.0 and drag down mean_recall

opened today0 comments

buggood first issue

AgentPostmortem/VaultRAG

detect_conflicts reports the same document pair once per chunk pair, so one disagreement prints four times

opened today0 comments

buggood first issue

AgentPostmortem/Agentrace

Docs: parse_session does one pass over the transcript, not two

opened today1 comment

documentationgood first issue

Judgment-Pack/judgment-pack-spec

Add a GitHub-facing index for the example packs

opened today0 comments

documentationgood first issue

Judgment-Pack/judgment-pack-spec

Cover non-object pack roots in the structural conformance corpus

opened today0 comments

enhancementgood first issue

AOSSIE-Org/PictoPy

BUG:Add image looks off - center.(in albums)

opened 1 day ago5 comments

good first issueUI

dannyvfilms/Floppy

[BUG] Low-Tier Hardware Performance Audit

opened 1 day ago6 comments

bughelp wanted

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