Sponsor Finder

When you want to support the maintainers behind your project's dependencies but don't know where to start, this tool does the detective work. It pulls your full dependency tree from deps.dev, maps each package to its GitHub repo, then hunts down funding links through npm metadata, FUNDING.yml files, and web search. Every sponsorship URL gets verified before the report. You get both direct and transitive dependencies grouped by funding platform, plus OSSF Scorecard health data to help prioritize. Works across npm, PyPI, Cargo, Go, Maven, and others. Honestly saves hours of manual digging through package.json files.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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$ npx -y skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill sponsor-finder --agent claude-code

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Sponsor Finder

Discover opportunities to support the open source maintainers behind your project's dependencies. Accepts a GitHub owner/repo (e.g. /sponsor expressjs/express), uses the deps.dev API for dependency resolution and project health data, and produces a friendly sponsorship report covering both direct and transitive dependencies.

Your Workflow

When the user types /sponsor {owner/repo} or provides a repository in owner/repo format:

Parse the input — Extract owner and repo.
Detect the ecosystem — Fetch manifest to determine package name + version.
Get full dependency tree — deps.dev GetDependencies (one call).
Resolve repos — deps.dev GetVersion for each dep → relatedProjects gives GitHub repo.
Get project health — deps.dev GetProject for unique repos → OSSF Scorecard.
Find funding links — npm funding field, FUNDING.yml, web search fallback.
Verify every link — fetch each URL to confirm it's live.
Group and report — by funding destination, sorted by impact.