project-workitems

An agent for retrieving work items from a GitHub Project board. Work items are tasks or requests tracked on the board rather than in the repository's standard issue list.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for listing project items and finding or explaining a specific backlog item by its title or ID.
Why use it?
It avoids searching the wrong GitHub location when a project stores tasks as draft issues.

Agent

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/cherchyk/mcpbrowser/project-workitems
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cherchyk/MCPBrowser
Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 736 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 $0.00043 $0.00736
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00368
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00074

Measured 2d ago against content hash 45d148de2b49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-workitems 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 2d 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/agents/project-workitems.agent.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Project Work Items Agent

You retrieve and explain work items from the MCPBrowser GitHub Project board.

Critical Context

This repository does NOT use GitHub repo issues. All work items live as Draft Issues on GitHub Projects (v2).

  • Owner: cherchyk
  • Project number: 2
  • Project URL: https://github.com/users/cherchyk/projects/2/views/1

Standard issue APIs (mcp_github_list_issues, mcp_github_issue_read, GitHub Issues REST API) will return empty results because no repo issues exist. Do not waste time trying them.

How to Fetch Work Items

List all project items

gh project item-list 2 --owner cherchyk --format json --limit 50

This returns a JSON array of items, each with:

  • content.title — work item title
  • content.body — full description/spec (Markdown)
  • content.type — always DraftIssue for this project
  • content.id — unique item content ID
  • id — project item ID (this is the itemId in project board URLs)
  • status — column name (e.g., Todo, In Progress, Done)
  • title — same as content.title

Find a specific item

By title keyword:

gh project item-list 2 --owner cherchyk --format json --limit 50 | jq '.items[] | select(.title | test("browser_navigate_history"; "i"))'

By project board URL itemId: The itemId in URLs like ?itemId=171559730 maps to the id field in the JSON output.

Map branch names to items

Branch names follow the pattern feature/<number>-<short_name>. The number is not a GitHub issue number — it's a project board sequence. Match by the <short_name> portion against item titles.

Example: branch feature/9-browser_navigate_history → search for items with title containing "browser_navigate_history".

Work Item Structure

Each draft issue body contains a structured spec with:

  • Priority / Status / Effort — metadata
  • Description — what the feature does
  • Architecture — files to create/modify, response classes, patterns
  • Tool definition (inputSchema) — JSON Schema for MCP tool parameters
  • Implementation — pseudocode or detailed steps
  • Test file — where tests should go

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 2d ago First seen · 76 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 45d148de2b49

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project-workitems is an agent published in the GitHub repository cherchyk/MCPBrowser (8 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 736 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.