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  • phantom+locus integration test: fail closed on unreadable paths in the canary scan
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 73/100

    ashlrai/locus#182 ·

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  • autopin suggest: hardening follow-ups from #163 review
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ashlrai/locus#181 · 1 comment ·

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  • npm wrapper silently overwrites a newer ~/.locus/bin/locus with an older binary
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

    ashlrai/locus#177 ·

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  • binding add is not an idempotent no-op when the file matches
    Open
    enhancement

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

    ashlrai/locus#175 ·

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  • Sample exec prints three unset-variable warnings on the happy path
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

    ashlrai/locus#174 ·

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  • whoami credential.present is true while the env var is unset
    Open
    enhancement

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

    ashlrai/locus#173 ·

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  • doctor exits 1 right after a fresh quickstart
    Open
    bug

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

    ashlrai/locus#172 ·

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  • --dry-run missing on most mutating commands
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    ashlrai/locus#171 ·

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  • locus exec is 3 to 5x slower than direnv exec and sops exec-env
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ashlrai/locus#170 ·

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  • Shell installer for the release archive (one command without npm or Rust)
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

    ashlrai/locus#169 ·

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  • cargo install compiles locus-core twice
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ashlrai/locus#168 ·

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  • cargo install --git fails on rustc 1.83: declare rust-version
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ashlrai/locus#167 ·

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  • Dead-broker recovery hint names leave --force before enter
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 32/100

    ashlrai/locus#166 ·

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  • Track keyring 4 migration to remove the RUSTSEC-2026-0370/0371/0372 ignores in deny.toml (added in #241)
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    ashlrai/phantom-secrets#242 ·

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  • Add example output to /ashlr commands table
    Open
    good first issue help wanted

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

    ashlrai/ashlr-plugin#151 ·

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  • Status line: document each field
    Open
    good first issue help wanted

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

    ashlrai/ashlr-plugin#150 ·

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  • Docs: one-page quickstart for Codex
    Open
    good first issue help wanted

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

    ashlrai/ashlr-plugin#149 ·

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  • Add a cloud/DevOps starter pack
    May be free again @yuefdev claimed this 9 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    good first issue help wanted

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

    ashlrai/lexicon#31 · 2 comments ·

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  • Deflake __tests__/pulse-emit.test.ts under `--parallel=4`
    Open
    good first issue help wanted

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    ashlrai/ashlr-plugin#138 ·

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  • Windows or Linux tray app with push-to-talk and fix-clipboard
    Open
    help wanted platform

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ashlrai/lexicon#13 ·

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  • Package and publish the extension on addons.mozilla.org
    Open
    help wanted platform

    Difficulty 3/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 22/100

    ashlrai/lexicon#12 ·

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  • Record an asciinema cast of lexicon setup
    Open
    documentation good first issue help wanted

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

    ashlrai/lexicon#11 ·

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  • Benchmark: measure how badly non-English names do before changing the phonetics
    Open
    enhancement good first issue help wanted

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

    ashlrai/lexicon#8 ·

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  • Add a starter pack for a profession we do not cover
    Open
    good first issue help wanted pack

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

    ashlrai/lexicon#4 ·

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