The SciCodes Consortium (https://scicodes.net/) recognizes the need for editors and maintainers of software registries and repositories to share knowledge of best practices and create standards. Our 37 members represent science organizations and institutions across disciplines including biological, medical, mathematical and physical sciences and engineering. These repositories play a pivotal role in strengthening research by enhancing the discoverability of software, thereby supporting transparency, reproducibility, and fostering efficiency through software reuse. Hence, through their stewardship of software, our members pursue common goals including the recognition of software as a first-class citizen in research and establishing metadata standards to enable searching across multiple software registriesSciCodes grew from the Best Practices for Registries Task Force as part of the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group. These best practices (Garijo et al., 2022. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1023) are:Provide a public scope statementProvide guidance for usersProvide guidance to software contributorsEstablish an authorship policy Share your metadata schema Stipulate conditions of use State a privacy policyProvide a retention policy Disclose your end-of-life policy The group regularly self assesses for compliance. Examples of how these best practices are implemented in practice are linked to from our website.We invite the community to join our monthly discussions to:Discuss challenges and share solutions to common issues that arise in managing our resourcesStrengthen resources through implementation of identified best practicesKeep up with and share advances through monthly presentationsSpeed adoption of CodeMeta and CFF standards to improve software citation and discoverability