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Copilot AI commented Dec 22, 2025

Thanks for asking me to work on this. I will get started on it and keep this PR's description up to date as I form a plan and make progress.

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On GitHub, you don’t need to go anywhere special — you add those labels directly in your own repository. Here’s how it works:

  • Go to your repo’s Issues tab.
  • When you create or edit an issue, look at the right-hand sidebar where labels are listed.
  • You can either select existing labels or create new ones like good first issue or help wanted.
  • Once applied, these labels make your issues show up in GitHub’s global search and on the Good First Issues topic page, where contributors often browse for beginner-friendly tasks.

The difference between them:

  • good first issue → signals that the task is beginner-friendly, with clear steps and low complexity.
  • help wanted → indicates you’d like community assistance, regardless of difficulty.

Together, they make your repo more discoverable to people looking to contribute.

Would you like me to walk you through how to create those labels from scratch in your repo settings, in case they don’t already exist?


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