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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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Document that a SQLite trail allows only one writer Open

documentation help wanted

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 90/100

rajfirke/provena#202 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Document that verify_chain() does not cover governance columns Open

documentation help wanted

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

rajfirke/provena#201 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Docs incorrectly claim strict_mode rejects MISSING or unverified provenance Open

documentation help wanted

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

rajfirke/provena#200 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
README and docs/index overstate blocking context before the LLM Open

documentation help wanted

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

rajfirke/provena#199 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
verify_chain() can observe a partial snapshot under concurrent logging Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

rajfirke/provena#198 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
bug: asdf v0.20.1 failed to publish assets Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

asdf-vm/asdf#2329 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
friction: PR merge unexpectedly closed Refs-only BA-06 parent Open

bug evidence:smoke state:ready technical-debt workflow

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

ll7/robot_sf_ll7#9566 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Configurable OpenSearch index prefix for shared cluster multi-tenancy Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

google/timesketch#3914 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
issue: Algorithm of 'RS256' is not allowed Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

open-webui/open-webui#30331 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Create a CI Build Open

Infrastructure

hasii2011/umldiagrammer#82 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Add 1.3b Config To Lingbot Open

NVIDIA/flashdreams#648 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Pyright rejects an `Annotated` scalar as an `output_type`, which is the only spelling `TypeSafeModel` accepts for a score Open

bug

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

pydantic/pydantic-ai#8601 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
[BUG] BaseTpuCluster and K8sCluster coordinator discovery fails on IPv6 Kubernetes clusters due to socket.gethostbyname Open

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

jax-ml/jax#40855 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
[BUG] GkeTpuCluster queries metadata.google.internal for MEGASCALE_SLICE_ID even when TPU_SKIP_MDS_QUERY is set Open

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

jax-ml/jax#40854 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
[aw] Failed jobs: PR Documentation Check Open

agentic-workflows needs-area-label

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

microsoft/aspire#20297 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Seer Code Review settings: Triggers menu closes before the pointer reaches "On New Commit" Open

Waiting for: Support

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

getsentry/sentry#125164 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 21, 2026
if a camera sensor never starts up, it is not recorded as having gone offline. need to add this protection to averaging mode. Open

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

OpenwaterHealth/openmotion-bloodflow-app#585 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Feature Request]: Update Beam Grafana instance Open

awaiting triage infra new feature P2

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

apache/beam#40215 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Feature Request]: Implement least-privilege access for GKE workload hosting Beam metrics. Open

awaiting triage infra new feature P2

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

apache/beam#40214 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Token usage tracking for streamed replies Open

Backend LLM Integration

MLH-Fellowship/orientation-project-open-source-fellowship#64 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 21, 2026
STRICT egress: scheduler subscription trigger writes search.tool directly, bypassing the saved-primary guard Open

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

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6737 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Bug]: DiffusionGemma: tensor shape mismatch in post_norm under concurrent decode (inputs_embeds vs silently-clamped sc_embeds) Open

quantization

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

vllm-project/vllm#58035 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Bug]: Hybrid Mamba/GDN P/D disaggregation is unreachable on CPU — DS conv-layout assert vs the platform's forced SD Open

kv-connector

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

vllm-project/vllm#58034 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Bug]: NixlConnector CPU core reservation ignores the cgroup cpuset, killing the worker in containers Open

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

vllm-project/vllm#58033 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Centralize API v1 observability in Google Cloud Open

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

PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#3847 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Debug/verbose mode surfaces nothing in CI and cannot diagnose a hanging scanner Open

bug enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

awslabs/automated-security-helper#628 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
RFC: differentiable IK solution charts, sheets, and metric-aware sampling Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

personalrobotics/ssik#578 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[API] Client-window dimensions cannot change during a session Open

NVIDIA/flashdreams#647 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Generate solver architecture and public contract docs from sources of truth Open

documentation

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

personalrobotics/ssik#577 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Replace string-rewrite codegen with one structured solve pipeline Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

personalrobotics/ssik#576 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Centralize public SolveOptions validation and semantics Open

bug

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

personalrobotics/ssik#575 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Validate solve inputs before backend dispatch and harden pybind boundaries Open

bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

personalrobotics/ssik#574 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Define independent IK soundness, recovery, and branch-completeness contracts Open

enhancement

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

personalrobotics/ssik#573 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
General 6R: multi-chart reconstruction and end-to-end representation selection Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

personalrobotics/ssik#572 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
General 6R: preserve projective roots at tan-half-angle infinity Open

bug

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

personalrobotics/ssik#571 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[telemetry] Preserve the selected config table during failed-restart auth cleanup Open

Bug :bug:

sonic-net/sonic-mgmt#28071 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Use what the user wrote about `None` as the "none of these" option, instead of the stock wording Open

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

pydantic/pydantic-ai#8600 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Warn once when a session decorator creates a session implicitly Open

Core & Internals Database

rucio/rucio#8816 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[pcied] Honour PCIE_DETACH_INFO on platforms that are not smartswitches Open

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

sonic-net/sonic-platform-daemons#900 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
An `Annotated[X, ...]` output type is named `final_result_Annotated` and loses X's description Open

bug

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

pydantic/pydantic-ai#8599 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
FlashInfer autotune for trtllm_fp4_block_scale_moe wedges forever on SM103 (GB300): trtllm_gemm cubin is sm_100a-only, no PTX, and the autotuner has no timeout Open

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

vllm-project/vllm#58031 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Terminus.est does not appear to move the .yaml file to the ingested folder and does not delete the do.yaml file Open

roman-corgi/ctc-dip#128 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Question] How should we build a durable agent with a long conversation and many tool calls per turn? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

temporalio/sdk-python#1890 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Middleware fails to import on Python 3.14 builds without _zstd (Azure App Service) Open

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

adamchainz/django-http-compression#68 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
tracy report generation aborts on a captured-but-never-replayed trace (assert in _enrich_ops_from_perf_csv) Open

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

tenstorrent/tt-metal#57270 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Host-memory pinning on tensor writes can wedge the process and the device with no timeout, fallback, or off switch Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

tenstorrent/tt-metal#57269 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Deploying Docker Image Open

good first issue

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

google/sbsim#192 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2026
MCP client has no httpx timeout, so the event stream fails after 5 seconds Open

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

Azure/azure-functions-agents-runtime#228 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Retain feasible zero-width box slide bands Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

personalrobotics/tsr#110 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Crazy RoboTaxi] Scale presentation independently of model resolution Open

NVIDIA/flashdreams#646 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 21, 2026

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