Contributing in your role
Written for version 0.1.14. Sources: onboard-collaborator, onboarding, writing the analysis plan, the AGENTS.md template, GitHub workflow, review-analysis, blind reviewers.
The plugin assumes no role. It starts from what you want to contribute and what you already know, and offers the help that fits you. A project may have several people leading parts of it and no single lead, and the PI may use the plugin too. The roles below are common patterns, not boxes: one person can hold several, and each project fills them its own way.
Two rules hold in every role. Only a named decider settles a scientific question. And every change reaches the main branch through a pull request, a proposed change that others can see before it is merged.