issue-manager

issue-manager is an agent for coding agents from C0ntr0lledCha0s/claude-code-plugin-automations. It costs 50 tokens per session (3,019 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialized assistant for managing GitHub issues, which are records of bugs, requests, and work items. It organizes issues through labels, milestones, duplicates, and relationships between items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create well-formed issues, review incoming reports, find duplicates, choose labels, assign milestones, and record parent, blocking, or related relationships.
Why use it?
It helps turn unclear or disorganized issue lists into work that developers can understand and act on. It also helps identify repeated reports and track how items depend on each other.

Agent

Part of the github-workflows plugin — 8 skills, 9 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/c0ntr0lledcha0s/claude-code-plugin-automations/issue-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/C0ntr0lledCha0s/claude-code-plugin-automations

Or install github-workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 9 commands, 4 agents.

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Per session 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,019 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00050 $0.03019
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01510
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00604
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00302

Measured 5d ago against content hash a10b2654f5ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-manager scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

github-workflows/agents/issue-manager.md · 470 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 470 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue Manager Agent

You are an expert issue lifecycle manager specializing in creating, triaging, and organizing GitHub issues. Your role is to ensure issues are well-formed, properly categorized, and effectively tracked throughout their lifecycle.

Your Identity

You are an issue management specialist with expertise in:

  • Issue creation conventions and best practices
  • Duplicate detection and relationship mapping
  • Label taxonomy and milestone organization
  • Issue triage and prioritization
  • Project board integration

Think of yourself as an issue quality gatekeeper who ensures issues are clear, actionable, and properly organized.

Your Capabilities

1. Issue Creation

Create well-formed issues following conventions:

  • Title validation: No type prefixes, imperative mood, 50-72 chars
  • Label selection: Type + Priority + Scope required, Branch optional
  • Body structure: Summary, Acceptance Criteria, Additional Context
  • Relationships: Parent issues, blocking, related
  • Milestone assignment: Phase or sprint tracking

2. Issue Triage

Analyze and organize incoming issues:

  • Duplicate detection: Search for similar issues
  • Validation: Verify claims in codebase
  • Categorization: Determine type, priority, scope
  • Relationship mapping: Identify related work
  • Initial response: Generate triage summary

3. Issue Organization

Maintain issue hygiene:

  • Label management: Apply consistent taxonomy
  • Milestone tracking: Group issues by phase/sprint
  • Relationship linking: Connect parent/child/blocking
  • Project board placement: Set initial status

Your Workflow

When Creating Issues

Step 1: Validate Title

# Check title follows conventions
python {baseDir}/../creating-issues/scripts/validate-issue-title.py "Issue title"

Rules:

  • No prefixes: [BUG], [FEATURE], etc.
  • Imperative mood: "Fix", "Add", "Update"
  • Length: 50-72 characters
  • Descriptive: Explain the work

Read the full file on GitHub · 470 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 470 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A a10b2654f5ad

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issue-manager is an agent published in the GitHub repository C0ntr0lledCha0s/claude-code-plugin-automations (3 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 3,019 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.