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[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
[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
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
feat(mcp): friendlier error when `run_cloud_sync` is called on a disabled connection Open

enhancement

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

airbytehq/PyAirbyte#1205 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
fix(mcp): `deploy_noop_destination_to_cloud` param naming inconsistent (`name` vs `destination_name`) and undocumented Open

bug

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

airbytehq/PyAirbyte#1203 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
fix(mcp): `update_cloud_connection` cron examples use 5-field cron, but API requires 6/7-field Quartz Open

bug

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

airbytehq/PyAirbyte#1202 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
fix(mcp): `permanently_delete_cloud_{source,destination,connection}` lack `workspace_id` param, unusable without a default workspace Open

bug

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

airbytehq/PyAirbyte#1201 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
pn7160: reader goes permanently deaf — post-read IRQ-low check fails reads that succeeded Open

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

esphome/esphome#19452 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
AZ baseline non-refundable credit ordering applies charitable before dependent/family credits, contrary to Forms 140/301 Open

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

PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#9559 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
google-cloud-php: remove format step from owlbot.py now that librarian runs formatting during generate Open

priority: p3

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

googleapis/librarian#7636 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Learning checklist for Milestone 1 Open

task

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

alopesmendes/pykaraoke#11 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
i18n setup: fr default, ja secondary Open

task

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

alopesmendes/pykaraoke#8 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Add templates/base.html with content block, toaster region, modal container Open

task

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

alopesmendes/pykaraoke#7 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Create service layer files: services.py, exceptions.py, managers.py Open

task

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

alopesmendes/pykaraoke#6 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
update_databases.py crash when directory no longer exists Open

bug good first issue

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

olcf/olcf-test-harness#278 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2026
docs: update RAI Planner path references in security and RAI docs after portability fix Open

agent-ready documentation needs-triage

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

microsoft/hve-core#2975 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[bug] clean-merge parity integration fixtures fail the current approval gate Open

from:qa priority:P2 reliability tech-debt

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

spec-kitty/spec-kitty#4874 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Document scheduler: manual Run-Once job bypasses max_instances and can run concurrent with the interval pass Open

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

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6722 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
run_tests.py fails on windows, but running tests individually works Open

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

NVIDIA/cuda-samples#453 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Update contributor page in the docs Open

fix: inaccuracy ⚠️

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

uabrc/uabrc.github.io#1255 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Thrift import and export leak `AttributeError` for non-string delimiters Open

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

infiniflow/infinity#3502 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[BUG] Unit Test workflow cannot pass on pull requests from forks Open

repo:raw-data

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

hotosm/raw-data-api#316 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[CI Failure] Flaky: MauiBuildQueueTests.CancelQueuedResource_CompletesGracefullyAndDoesNotAcquireSemaphore asserts exact exception type but sometimes gets TaskCanceledException instead of OperationCanceledException Open

ci-failure-cause test-failure

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

microsoft/aspire#20284 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
TokenCache keeps tokens whose expires_at is zero Open

auth bug

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

PrefectHQ/fastmcp#5193 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Update the screen shot of the dashboard Open

documentation good first issue

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

mlco2/codecarbon#1423 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Update the bibtex citation Open

documentation good first issue

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

mlco2/codecarbon#1422 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Should the plugin directory list a provider with no key to store? Open

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

simonw/llm#1699 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
tutor: implement auto running the management command on deploy Open

willow

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

openedx/openedx-authz#460 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Setting role_profile_name programmatically is silently discarded and applies no roles Open

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

frappe/frappe#43115 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[BUG][ConcurrentWorkflow._run][Agent outputs are collected in completion order, so show_dashboard changes the returned ordering] Open

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

kyegomez/swarms#2317 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
qute-bitwarden fails - KeyError: 'totp' Open

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

qutebrowser/qutebrowser#9018 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
AG2-Space bridge fails to deliver insight, briefing, and friction results (only globs proactive-*.txt) Open

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

sonichi/sutando#4571 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
test_guard_lets_unrelated_commands_through accepts returncode 0 or 1 Open

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

pirl-unc/runplz#180 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Remove assert-True smoke test in test_readme_imports.py Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 94/100

pirl-unc/pirlygenes#624 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
test_collator_pads_peptides asserts shape[1] == shape[1] Open

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

pirl-unc/presto#67 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Opportunity Type default is translated, blocking Opportunity creation on every non-English site Open

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

frappe/erpnext#59239 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Task SDK] `BaseOperator.post_execute` is invoked without the `result` argument in the new task runner Open

kind:bug needs-triage

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

apache/airflow#73471 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Legacy shim tests assert parameter names instead of calling the shims Open

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

openvax/mhcflurry#437 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
engine/CLAUDE.md cites an AGENTS.md-parity test path that does not exist Open

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

sonichi/sutando#4566 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Use name macOS not darwin in release table Open

docs

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

visit-dav/visit#21164 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[macOS] GRASS provider fails to auto-detect standalone GRASS 8.x installs (GrassUtils.grassPath() only checks GRASS-7.*.app) Open

Bug

Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 78/100

qgis/QGIS#67506 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
`client_supports_extension` returns False when the client advertises the extension without `clientInfo` Open

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

PrefectHQ/fastmcp#5192 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
melange/apko: attest-build-provenance always fails on fork PRs (missing id-token) Open

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

ethereum-optimism/factory#64 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
remote::llama-cpp-server sample_run_config hardcodes base_url, breaking env overrides in all generated configs Open

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

ogx-ai/ogx#6604 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[bug] Assembly fingerprint collapses undeclared and empty Skill allowed-tools Open

needs-triage

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

bytedance/deer-flow#5665 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[copp] test_copp.py missing BGPv6 test coverage Open

P3 sonic-vpp

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

sonic-net/sonic-buildimage#29662 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Bug]: V1 `InputBatch` retains prompt-embedding tensors after requests finish Open

bug

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

vllm-project/vllm#57974 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Maigret bot] False-positive site probe: Planetaexcel Open

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

soxoj/maigret#3191 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
profile silently drops all but the last --dataset instead of rejecting a repeat Open

bug

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

torchgeo/torchgeo-bench#403 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
--resume still keys on device and workers, so restarts recompute completed work Open

bug

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

torchgeo/torchgeo-bench#401 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

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