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Nghi Danh
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How to make your 1st Open-source contribution to AWS Repo

I think you’ve probably heard about becoming an AWS Community Builder by writing articles, posts, or social media content. Another way is by contributing to AWS open-source projects.

Bedrock Agentcore Sample

At first, I wondered, “How can I help with anything when I’m just a junior university student?”

While learning about AWS Bedrock AgentCore, I read the documentation and did some hands-on labs using the AWS AgentCore sample. That’s when I noticed something was wrong. When I clicked on the Memory section, it redirected me to the Identity section instead.

The Issue

I thought to myself, “What happened? Am I doing something wrong?”

Later, I realized that while the AWS team was writing the README file, they had simply mistyped these two sections. After that, I searched online for “How to contribute to an open-source project.”

I then forked the repository to my computer, changed two lines in the README.md file, pushed the changes to my branch, and followed their contribution guidelines. I created an issue using their template and submitted a pull request.

Commit

Email

A few days later, I received an email saying that my pull request had been accepted. This made me incredibly happy. Such a small change to a large project can benefit the community in a meaningful way.

Approved PR

Email Accepted

Checkout the Bedrock AgentCore Sample here, help me and everyone by contributing anything to it : https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-bedrock-agentcore-samples/

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