osa-tool 0.2.1

Tool that just makes your open source project better!

OSA: OPEN-SOURCE ADVISOR

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Overview

OSA (Open-Source-Advisor) is a LLM-based tool for improving the quality of scientific open source projects and helping create them from scratch. It automates the generation of README, different levels of documentation, CI/CD scripts, etc. It also generates advices and recommendations for the repository.

OSA is currently under development, so not all features are implemented.

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How it works?

Here is a short demo:

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Table of contents

• Core features
• Installation
• Getting started
• Examples
• Documentation
• Chat with developers: OSA_helpdesk
• Publications about OSA
• Contributing
• License
• Acknowledgments
• Citation

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Core features

1. README file generation: Automates the creation of a clear and structured README file for a repository, including projects based on research papers.

2. Documentation generation: Automatically generates docstrings for Python code.

3. Automatic implementation of changes: Clones the repository, creates a branch, commits and pushes changes, and creates a pull request with proposed changes.

4. Various LLMs: Use OSA with an LLM accessible via API (e.g., OpenAI, VseGPT, Ollama), a local server, or try an osa_bot hosted on ITMO servers.

5. GitHub Action Workflow Generator: Automatically generates customizable CI/CD workflows for Python repositories, including unit tests, code formatting, PEP 8 compliance checks, and PyPI publication.

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Installation

Install Open-Source-Advisor using one of the following methods:

Using PyPi:

pip install osa_tool

Build from source:

1. Clone the Open-Source-Advisor repository:

git clone https://github.com/aimclub/OSA

2. Navigate to the project directory:

cd Open-Source-Advisor

3. Install the project dependencies:

Using pip  

pip install -r requirements.txt

Using poetry  

poetry install 

Using docker  

docker build --build-arg GIT_USER_NAME="your-user-name" --build-arg GIT_USER_EMAIL="your-user-email" -f docker/Dockerfile -t {image-name} .

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Getting started

Prerequisites

OSA requires Python 3.10 or higher.

File .env is required to specify GitHub/GitLab/Gitverse token (GIT_TOKEN) and LLM API key (OPENAI_API_KEY or VSE_GPT_KEY)

When running osa-tool from CLI, you need to set the GIT_TOKEN and API key first:

export OPENAI_API_KEY=<your_api_key>
export GIT_TOKEN=<your_git_token>

Tokens

Token name	Description	Mandatory
GIT_TOKEN	Personal GitHub/GitLab/Gitverse token used to clone private repositories, access metadata, and interact with its API.	Yes
OPENAI_API_KEY	API key for accessing OpenAI's language models.	No
VSE_GPT_KEY	API key for vsegpt LLM provider compatible with OpenAI's API format.	No
X-API-Key	API key for the pepy.tech REST API, used to fetch Python package download statistics	No

Usage

Run Open-Source-Advisor using the following command:

Using pip  

python -m osa_tool.run -r {repository} [--api {api}] [--base-url {base_url}] [--model {model_name}] [--article {article}] [--convert-notebooks {notebook_paths}]

Using docker  

docker run --env-file .env {image-name} -r {repository} [--api {api}] [--base-url {base_url}] [--model {model_name}] [--article {article}] [--convert-notebooks {notebook_paths}]

The --article option enables you to choose a README template for a repository based on an article. You can provide either a link to a PDF file of the article or a path to a local PDF file after the --article option. If you are using Docker, ensure that you upload the PDF file to the OSA folder before building the image, then, specify the path as /app/OSA/... or just use volume mounting to access the file.

The --generate-workflows option is intended to create customizable CI/CD pipelines for Python repositories. For detailed documentation, see the GitHub Action Workflow Generator README.

Configuration

Flag	Description	Default
-r, --repository	URL of the GitHub/GitLab/Gitverse repository (Mandatory)
-b, --branch	Branch name of the repository	Default branch
-o, --output	Path to the output directory	Current working directory
--api	LLM API service provider	itmo
--base-url	URL of the provider compatible with API OpenAI	https://api.openai.com/v1
--model	Specific LLM model to use	gpt-3.5-turbo
--article	Link to the pdf file of the article	None
--translate-dirs	Enable automatic translation of the directory name into English	disabled
-m, --mode	Operation mode for repository processing: basic, auto (default), or advanced.	auto
--delete-dir	Enable deleting the downloaded repository after processing	disabled
--no-fork	Avoid create fork for target repository	False
--no-pull-request	Avoid create pull request for target repository	False
--top_p	Nucleus sampling probability	null
--temperature	Sampling temperature to use for the LLM output (0 = deterministic, 1 = creative).	null
--max_tokens	Maximum number of tokens the model can generate in a single response	null

To learn how to work with the interactive CLI and view descriptions of all available keys, visit the CLI usage guide.

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Examples

Examples of generated README files are available in examples.

URL of the GitHub/GitLab/Gitverse repository, LLM API service provider (optional) and Specific LLM model to use (optional) are required to use the generator.

To see available models go there:

1. VseGpt
2. OpenAI
3. Ollama

Local ITMO model:

python -m osa_tool.run -r https://github.com/aimclub/OSA --base_url [ITMO_MODEL_URL]

For this API provider itmo model url must be specified in dotenv (ITMO_MODEL_URL=) or in the --base-url argument.

OpenAI:

python -m osa_tool.run -r https://github.com/aimclub/OSA --api openai

VseGPT:

python -m osa_tool.run -r https://github.com/aimclub/OSA --api openai --base-url https://api.vsegpt.ru/v1 --model openai/gpt-3.5-turbo

Ollama:

python -m osa_tool.run -r https://github.com/aimclub/OSA --api ollama --base-url http://[YOUR_OLLAMA_IP]:11434 --model gemma3:27b

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Documentation

Detailed description of OSA API is available here.

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Chat with developers: OSA_helpdesk

In our Telegram chat OSA_helpdesk you can ask questions about working with OSA and find the latest news about the project.

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Publications about OSA

In English:

• Automate Your Coding with OSA – ITMO-Made AI Assistant for Researchers

In Russian:

• OSA: ИИ-помощник для разработчиков научного open source кода

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Contributing

• Report Issues: Submit bugs found or log feature requests for the Open-Source-Advisor project.

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License

This project is protected under the BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License. For more details, refer to the LICENSE file.

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Acknowledgments

The project is supported as ITMO University Research Project in AI Initiative (RPAII).

OSA is tested by the members of ITMO OpenSource community. Useful content from community is available in Open-source-ops

Also, we thank Readme-ai for their code that we used as a foundation for our own version of README generator.

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Citation

If you use this software, please cite it as below.

APA format

ITMO, NSS Lab (2025). Open-Source-Advisor repository [Computer software]. https://github.com/aimclub/OSA

BibTeX format

@misc{Open-Source-Advisor,

    author = {ITMO, NSS Lab},

    title = {Open-Source-Advisor repository},

    year = {2025},

    publisher = {github.com},

    journal = {github.com repository},

    howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/aimclub/OSA.git}},

    url = {https://github.com/aimclub/OSA.git}

}

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