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Average annotated difficulty: 3.8/5 across 950,491 issues.
11% of 950,491 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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docs: update workflows.md for slide deck Node test discovery Open

agent-ready documentation needs-triage

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

microsoft/hve-core#3012 · Opened Sep 25, 2026
config_keys.rst says every result file PyBNF writes is alphabetical, but the credible-interval files and start_point.txt use declaration order Open

documentation

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 91/100

lanl/PyBNF#932 · Opened Sep 25, 2026
workflow-status page template still says reusable workflows are "triggered only by workflow_call:" Open

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

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6804 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
Add https://search.jeremyh.xyz/ Open

instance instance add

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100

searxng/searx-instances#939 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 24, 2026
Azure Sandboxes: Small and ExtraSmall tiers always fail to deploy (disk request exceeds tier maximum) Open

area-deployment area-integrations triage:bot-seen

Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 86/100

microsoft/aspire#20459 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 24, 2026
SqliteSaver.list(filter=...) silently misses nested metadata values containing non-ASCII text Open

external

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

langchain-ai/langgraph#9074 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 24, 2026
report: cap current_knowledge in _determine_report_structure prompt — unbounded since #6711, errors small-context models Open

bug follow-up-work-in-progress from-review-extraction llm-providers python severity:should-fix

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

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6795 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
orphan-check classifies every onboarding-wizard task as a Claude-import run Open

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

sonichi/sutando#4757 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
bug(arrow-odbc): SQL Server event store index guard never matches Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 92/100

litestar-org/sqlspec#816 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
bug(migrations): quoted version_table renders invalid CREATE TABLE Open

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

litestar-org/sqlspec#815 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
PermissionUpdate.to_dict() sends "ruleContent": null; the CLI silently drops the update, so "always allow" never sticks for content-less rules Open

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

anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-python#1308 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
ConcordanceCorrCoef mixes (n-1) variances with a 1/n mean term, so it does not match Lin's CCC Open

bug / fix help wanted

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

Lightning-AI/torchmetrics#3512 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 24, 2026
rhat_nested rejects valid superchain_ids that are not 0..K-1 (e.g. [1, 1, 2, 2]) Open

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

arviz-devs/arviz-stats#461 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
[BUG] Repeated label indices inflate cluster size during issue discovery Open

area/evaluation bug

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

mlflow/mlflow#26164 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 24, 2026
[PyCDE] TypeAlias should forward field lookup to the aliased type Open

enhancement PyCDE

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

llvm/circt#11173 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
[PyCDE] TypeAlias should support as_bits()/bitcast (missing .width) Open

enhancement PyCDE

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

llvm/circt#11171 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
Batch-invariant weighted SwiGLU reads invalid memory at large input offsets Open

community-request

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

NVIDIA/Megatron-LM#7650 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
[Bug]: OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE="5m" / "24h" crashes Ollama embedding and vision models with ValueError Open

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

infiniflow/ragflow#20223 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 24, 2026
docs: update dt-coach.md agent reference for optional project identifier Open

agent-ready documentation needs-triage

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

microsoft/hve-core#3008 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
docs: update dt-start-project.md for optional project-slug Open

agent-ready documentation needs-triage

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

microsoft/hve-core#3007 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
[Docs] Fix typo in Sphinx extensions description Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 95/100

NVIDIA/cuda-quantum#5492 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 24, 2026
`python/packaging-council` repo Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 60/100

python/steering-council#364 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
[Bug][api] ContextRetrievalRequestEvent accepts a non-positive max_results Open

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

apache/flink-agents#1156 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
Mocked Draft set selector resets to HOB after choosing another set Open

bug draftomen size: S

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

andreagrandi/draftomen#681 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
Update or remove conda-project pin Open

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

nebari-dev/jhub-apps#742 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
python packages with pypi= don't find newer relases Open

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

spack/spack-packages#6681 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
README pins assistant-runtime 0.2.0 without saying whether 0.3.0 works Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 85/100

eandualem/avatar-studio#69 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
Add requirements.txt Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

jaredpalmer/kev#123 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
Non-quiet mode never persists the session: Hermes 0.21 prints `Session: <id>`, which the legacy regex does not match Open

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

NousResearch/hermes-paperclip-adapter#197 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
[source-shopify] FAILED bulk operation without partialDataUrl is silently treated as successful Open

area/connectors autoteam community connectors/source/shopify needs-triage team/use type/bug

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

airbytehq/airbyte#86962 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
Preposing a change in guideline of python workshop-email-simulator/step-28 Open

status: waiting triage

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 68/100

freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp#70359 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
spec.trainer.resourcesPerNode is silently dropped when the runtime has no mlPolicy Open

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

kubeflow/trainer#4109 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 24, 2026
[BUG] Extensions.WaitForCloudInitTimeout value is not respected by WALinuxAgent. Open

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

Azure/WALinuxAgent#3686 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
PodSweeper skips pods forever when both status.conditions and status.startTime are unset (stuck Pending pods never cleaned up) Open

autoteam community team/use

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

airbytehq/airbyte#86961 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
Guidance for GDK users on most mature library Open

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

aaif-goose/goose#12496 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
FIX for: PY4WEB_URL_PREFIX fails if the name of an app is the same like /p/pse Open

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

web2py/py4web#1065 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
PDF: USt-Satz in der Positionszeile ohne Nachkommastelle (z. B. 7,8 % wird als 7 % angezeigt) Open

awaiting-response bug

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

nicolettas-muggelbude/RechnungsFee#406 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 24, 2026
validate-structure inspecte challenge/work/.terraform et rend faux les labs qui ont un provider en cache Open

bug

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

stephrobert/dsoxlab#238 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
USB+AMD device lock not released after open fails Open

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

tinygrad/tinygrad#18417 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
sign_up on version-16 still creates the user after the 429 response (backport of #38339 failed) Open

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

frappe/frappe#43338 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
[BUG] Schema enforcement misaligns rows when the input DataFrame has a non-default index and the signature has Array/Object/Map columns Open

area/scoring bug

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

mlflow/mlflow#26160 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
schedule-crons step 1.5 watcher-start command omits SUTANDO_TASK_EVENT_HANDLER export Open

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

sonichi/sutando#4742 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
A career `game_log`'s heading names one season in parentheses beside a career count Open

P4: low query

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

jeffknupp/association#217 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
`team_leaderboard` excludes `situation`, so "best record since <day>" still falls through Open

enhancement P3: gap query

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

jeffknupp/association#214 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
The router keeps only the word "division" of "vs southeast division", so the alignment narrowing never sees the division Open

enhancement P3: gap query

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

jeffknupp/association#213 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
Uniform probability densities use the upper bound as an interval width Open

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

nasa/fmdtools#40 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
PhaseMap lookup ignores its configured timestep Open

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

nasa/fmdtools#39 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
Empty or non-mapping config file fails with a bare AssertionError Open

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

NVIDIA/NeMo-Agent-Toolkit#2269 · Opened Sep 24, 2026
Exit code is 1 for any finding, including warnings; no way to set a failure threshold Open

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

docToolchain/asciidoc-linter#58 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 24, 2026
A broken or missing config file only prints a message; linting continues with defaults Open

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

docToolchain/asciidoc-linter#59 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 24, 2026

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