This is a sketch of a proposal for a "robots.txt for github" -- a policy that defines what actions automated tooling can take against a given repository.
Bots self-identify, and use project/repo
-style naming. So code that lives at https://github.com/jacobian/coolbot
identifies as jacobian/coolbot
. Forks should generally use the upstream identifier until/unless they become different enough to warrent new names. This is a matter of judgement.