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Builds the tracking plan that instruments developer-relations surfaces - docs, blog, repositories, package registries, community venues, and off-web appearances - with an event taxonomy, an identity spine, link-tagging discipline, source-confidence labelling, and funnel views. Use when the user says "devrel tracking plan", "docs analytics", "utm discipline", "event taxonomy for our docs", "our GitHub numbers don't match analytics", "how do we instrument the developer funnel", "join docs traffic to signups", or wants to know why devrel numbers disagree between tools. Instrumentation layer only - which KPIs deserve a target belongs to samber/developer-relations-skills@devrel-metrics.
Benchmarks a competitor's developer relations motion from publicly observable signals - documentation and quickstart quality, open-source repository health, community size and responsiveness, Q&A tag activity, content cadence by format, event presence, hiring signals - and returns a gap plan with a close, ignore or counter verdict per row. Use whenever the user asks for a devrel competitive benchmark, a developer experience comparison, "how do we compare to <competitor> for developers", "what is <competitor> doing in devrel", a community size or content cadence comparison, or a docs comparison against rivals - even if they only say "why do they get more developers". Not for measuring your own program alone - use samber/developer-relations-skills@devrel-metrics.
Runs press and light analyst relations for a developer-facing product - news qualification, the angle, a reporter-to-beat media map, the pitch, embargo and exclusive handling, the press page and briefing pack, and what coverage is honestly worth. Use whenever someone raises tech press relations, getting press coverage, pitching a journalist, a tech media pitch, building a media list, a press kit, an embargo briefing, announcing a funding round, a launch coverage plan, an analyst briefing, or "how do we get written about" - even if they only say they want to be in the news. Nothing to do with pull requests. Not the announcement post itself - use samber/developer-relations-skills@engineering-blog-post.
Builds a personalised, time-budgeted watch list of developer-relations information sources - DevRel podcasts, newsletters, practice hubs, peer communities, conference calendars, ecosystem data reports and practitioners worth following - plus the routine that keeps it verified and fresh. Use whenever a developer advocate, community manager, DevRel lead or OSS maintainer asks for a DevRel radar, how to stay current on developer relations, which DevRel podcasts, newsletters or Slack communities deserve their time, which developer conferences to attend or speak at, who to follow in DevRel, or to refresh a radar built earlier - even if they only say they feel out of the loop. Not for tracking a rival vendor - use samber/developer-relations-skills@devrel-competitor-analysis.
Builds a company's open-source sponsorship portfolio - which projects and maintainers to fund, through which allocation model, at what amount each, and how to prove it worked. Use whenever a company, OSPO, DevRel lead or engineering leader asks which open-source projects to sponsor, how much to budget for open-source funding, whether sponsoring maintainers is worth it, how to run an employee-nominated FOSS fund, how to fund dependencies at scale, how to pick a sponsorship tier on a maintainer's ladder, or how to measure the return on money paid to maintainers - even if they only say they want to give back. Not the maintainer side of raising sponsorship - use samber/developer-relations-skills@oss-sponsors-fundraising. Not event sponsorship.
Audits an existing developer documentation set's structure - a page-by-page inventory classified against the Diátaxis modes (tutorial, how-to, reference, explanation), mixed-mode and misplaced pages, coverage gaps per product surface, navigation drift against the file tree, a CNCF TechDocs rubric score, and a prioritized remediation queue. Use whenever the user mentions a docs structure or content audit, docs information architecture, Diátaxis, "our documentation is a mess", a docs gap analysis, what docs are missing, where a page should live, or reorganizing a documentation site - even if they only say "our docs are hard to navigate". Not for writing pages. Do NOT use for docs search ranking - use samber/developer-relations-skills@docs-seo.
Builds a prioritized keyword list for technical search queries (error strings, "how to X in Y" tasks, integration intents, comparisons, migrations) mined from docs search logs, support tickets, issue trackers and first-party query data rather than keyword-tool volume. Use whenever the user asks what developers actually search for, wants keywords for a developer tool, API, SDK or docs site, an error-message keyword list, demand sizing for a technical topic, or which docs pages to create from search demand - even if they never say "keyword". Does not write the pages. Do NOT use for on-page or docs-site SEO - use samber/developer-relations-skills@docs-seo.
Chooses the business model for a developer tool - proprietary SaaS, open core, hosted open source, support and LTS subscription, dual licensing, source-available, consumption metering, marketplace take-rate, OEM licensing - and the go-to-market each one forces. Use whenever a founder or exec asks how a developer tool should make money, whether open core or a managed cloud fits better, where the line between free and paid belongs, whether to open-source the product at all, or why adoption is high and revenue flat, and on any monetization, revenue model or commercial open source question - even if they never say "business model". Not price points, packaging or free-tier limits - use samber/developer-relations-skills@devtools-pricing-strategy.
Splits a developer relations budget across pillars - events, content, community, tooling, education, OSS sponsorship - into line items that each carry a cash cost, an hours cost, a pre-set return threshold, a review date and a reallocation rule, plus a ranked cut list. Use whenever someone asks how to plan or split a devrel budget, how much to spend on events versus content versus community, whether a line item is worth its money, how to defend a devrel budget at review, or what to cut first when the budget shrinks - even if they only say "we spend too much on conferences". Not the metrics framework (samber/developer-relations-skills@devrel-metrics) or one event's ROI (samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-event-sponsorship).
Designs an open-source project's ongoing distribution mix after the launch window - registry metadata, code-host discovery surfaces, curated lists, downstream packaging, extension and connector marketplaces, the release stream, dependency-graph position, creator seeding, and procurement trust signals - ranked against real maintainer capacity. Use whenever a maintainer asks how people will keep finding the project, which registries or awesome lists to target, why adoption flattened after launch, how often to release for visibility, or how to spend limited maintainer hours on distribution - even if they only say nobody is using it. Not the launch itself - use samber/developer-relations-skills@oss-launch. Not the build-in-public practice.
Plans and runs an open-source project launch end to end - name and license clearance, the readiness gate, positioning and one-liner, channel sequencing, the launch-day war room, star-velocity and GitHub Trending mechanics, and post-launch measurement. Use whenever someone is about to release, announce, open-source or "Show HN" a repository, asks how to reach GitHub Trending, wants the first real users or stars for a new library, is planning a Product Hunt post or a multi-day launch week, or asks why a launch fell flat (even if they only say they are pushing a repo public). Covers individual-developer and company adoption. Not ongoing distribution afterwards - use samber/developer-relations-skills@oss-distribution-strategy instead.
Decides what a company open-sources and what stays proprietary, names the strategic motive for each side of the line, says who owns the decision, and states what the company commits never to close. Use whenever someone asks "should we open source this?", "what should we open source", "where do we draw the open-core line", "which features stay paid", "who signs off on open sourcing this", or wants a company-level open source strategy rather than a plan for one project - even if they frame it as a licensing question. Produces an asset-by-asset open/closed verdict, a value-capture and irreversibility check, a public non-reversal commitment and a re-evaluation trigger. Not license selection - use samber/developer-relations-skills@oss-license-strategy.