[meta] Contributor onboarding roadmap

[abhicris]

Welcome, contributors

This is the contributor onboarding roadmap for arka — a Rust AI-agent SDK for blockchain (chain-agnostic wallets, DEX interaction, MPP payments, on-chain state reading).

If you want to get involved, start here. Every issue below is scoped to be doable by a motivated outside contributor — no private context required, all acceptance criteria are public and objective.

The ladder

Tier 1 — good first issue (2–5 hours, mechanical, well-scoped):

• Issues labeled good first issue. Topics: chain configs, ERC-20 helpers, BIP-44 wallet vectors, x402 payment retry.

Tier 2 — help wanted (1–3 days, substantive, may need design):

• Issues labeled help wanted. Topics: full Sepolia lifecycle example, Camelot V3 router, MCP library surface.

How to claim

1. Comment on the issue: "I'd like to work on this."
2. Open a PR within ~1 week — if life happens, just say so and we'll unblock.
3. See CONTRIBUTING.md for dev setup (cargo test, cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings).

Learn the codebase

• PR fix+feat: unbreak CI + Arbitrum AgentAccount primitives #4 (fix+feat: unbreak CI + Arbitrum AgentAccount primitives) is the best single PR to read first — it shows the module layout and testing conventions.
• src/agent/account.rs — the AgentAccount trait; every on-chain adapter implements this.
• src/chains/arbitrum.rs — the canonical per-chain module to mirror when adding a new chain.

More about the project

• Home: https://kcolbchain.com
• Public work: https://kcolbchain.com/work/
• Maintainer: Abhishek Krishna

Feel free to ask questions on any issue. Outside contributors are genuinely welcome here.

— kcolbchain / Abhishek Krishna

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