Call for proposals
GoodTurn Grants funds open-source maintainers to build environment case studies: reproducible, harbor-based coding tasks distilled from work that actually happened in their projects.
What we fund
A grant covers a focused body of environments built from a project you maintain or have contributed to deeply. The default award is $10,000 over 4 months; propose a different amount and duration if your scope warrants it.
What an environment case study is
Each environment packages a real engineering episode into a runnable task:
- PR and issue context — the actual change, the discussion around it, and the state of the codebase when it mattered.
- Insights — the non-obvious knowledge it took to resolve the problem: the invariant that couldn't break, the false lead everyone chased.
- Harness trajectories — recorded agent attempts at the task, showing where automated tools succeed and where they fall short.
Environments are verified on GoodTurn compute (an oracle solution must pass, a no-op must fail) and graded against a set of frontier models, with per-model pass rates reported in the catalog.
What an application looks like
- Title — up to 50 words.
- Abstract — up to 300 words on what you'll build and why.
- Target project links — the repositories your environments draw from.
- Contributors — name, one to five relevant links each, and an optional ORCID.
- Attachments — up to 10 supporting documents.
- Requested amount and duration — defaults of $10,000 and 4 months.
Applications are reviewed by GoodTurn staff. Self-funded builders can skip the application entirely and request a $0 direct grant to unlock the same tooling.