oss buddy: a local gemma that picks weekend-sized issues so my cousin can finally land his first PR

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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend I have a cousin. He has been telling me he wants to contribute to open source for about a year. Every month or two he sends me a screenshot of a repo and asks "is this a good one to start with?" I say yes. He opens it, scrolls for twenty minutes, closes the tab. The screenshot never turns into a PR.

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