Meet Anfi: an agent that gets first-timers to their first pull request, one step at a time

Description and use

<p>Next Saturday, October 17, we're hosting <strong>Hacktoberfest 2026 Tabasco</strong> at Xpectre House in Villahermosa, Mexico. The poster says "Beginners welcome", and we mean it. But every year I see the same moment: someone opens GitHub, stares at millions of repositories, and quietly closes the laptop.</p> <p>This weekend I built <strong>Anfi</strong> (short for <em>anfitrión</em>, Spanish for "host"), a chat agent whose only job is to get a first-time contributor from <em>"I've never done this"</em> to <em>"I opened my first pull request."</em></p> <h2> What it does and who it's for </h

Problem

<p>Next Saturday, October 17, we're hosting <strong>Hacktoberfest 2026 Tabasco</strong> at Xpectre House in Villahermosa, Mexico. The poster says "Beginners welcome", and we mean it. But every year I see the same moment: someone opens GitHub, stares at millions of repositories, and quietly closes the laptop.</p> <p>This weekend I built <strong>Anfi</strong> (short for <em>anfitrión</em>, Spanish for "host"), a chat agent whose only job is to get a first-time contributor from <em>"I've never done this"</em> to <em>"I opened my first pull request."</em></p> <h2> What it does and who it's for </h

Outcome

<p>Next Saturday, October 17, we're hosting <strong>Hacktoberfest 2026 Tabasco</strong> at Xpectre House in Villahermosa, Mexico. The poster says "Beginners welcome", and we mean it. But every year I see the same moment: someone opens GitHub, stares at millions of repositories, and quietly closes the laptop.</p> <p>This weekend I built <strong>Anfi</strong> (short for <em>anfitrión</em>, Spanish for "host"), a chat agent whose only job is to get a first-time contributor from <em>"I've never done this"</em> to <em>"I opened my first pull request."</em></p> <h2> What it does and who it's for </h

Evidence

Meet Anfi: an agent that gets first-timers to their first pull request, one step at a time

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