First of all, thank you for considering contributing to our project! We appreciate your time and effort, and we value any contribution, whether it's reporting a bug, suggesting a new feature, or submitting a pull request.
This document provides guidelines and best practices to help you contribute effectively.
By participating in this project, you agree to abide by our Code of Conduct. Please read it to understand the expectations we have for everyone who contributes to this project.
Right now we will not be accepting any Contributions that add non-essential commands to Auto-GPT.
However, you absolutely can still add these commands to Auto-GPT in the form of plugins. Please check out this template.
⚠️ Plugin support is expected to ship within the week. You can follow PR #757 for more updates!
To start contributing, follow these steps:
- Fork the repository and clone your fork.
- Create a new branch for your changes (use a descriptive name, such as
fix-bug-123oradd-new-feature). - Make your changes in the new branch.
- Test your changes thoroughly.
- Commit and push your changes to your fork.
- Create a pull request following the guidelines in the Submitting Pull Requests section.
If you find a bug in the project, please create an issue on GitHub with the following information:
- A clear, descriptive title for the issue.
- A description of the problem, including steps to reproduce the issue.
- Any relevant logs, screenshots, or other supporting information.
If you have an idea for a new feature or improvement, please create an issue on GitHub with the following information:
- A clear, descriptive title for the issue.
- A detailed description of the proposed enhancement, including any benefits and potential drawbacks.
- Any relevant examples, mockups, or supporting information.
When submitting a pull request, please ensure that your changes meet the following criteria:
- Your pull request should be atomic and focus on a single change.
- Your pull request should include tests for your change. We automatically enforce this with CodeCov
- You should have thoroughly tested your changes with multiple different prompts.
- You should have considered potential risks and mitigations for your changes.
- You should have documented your changes clearly and comprehensively.
- You should not include any unrelated or "extra" small tweaks or changes.
We use the black code formatter to maintain a consistent coding style across the project. Please ensure that your code is formatted using black before submitting a pull request. You can install black using pip:
pip install blackTo format your code, run the following command in the project's root directory:
black .We use pre-commit hooks to ensure that code formatting and other checks are performed automatically before each commit. To set up pre-commit hooks for this project, follow these steps:
Install the pre-commit package using pip:
pip install pre-commitRun the following command in the project's root directory to install the pre-commit hooks:
pre-commit installNow, the pre-commit hooks will run automatically before each commit, checking your code formatting and other requirements.
If you encounter any issues or have questions, feel free to reach out to the maintainers or open a new issue on GitHub. We're here to help and appreciate your efforts to contribute to the project.
Happy coding, and once again, thank you for your contributions!
Maintainers will look at PR that have no merge conflicts when deciding what to add to the project. Make sure your PR shows up here:
https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+-is%3Aconflict+