issue-tracker

A local issue-tracking system where each ticket is a Markdown file in the .scratch/ folder. A status field places the ticket in a board lane, and the board is published as a Pages demo.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, update, triage, and document repository work, including its status, priority, labels, comments, and verifiable definition of done.
Why use it?
It keeps ticket state, history, and completion checks in version-controlled files instead of a separate tracker. The conventions make it clear what is publicly written and whether work is actually shipped.

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/darecstowell/scratchboard/issue-tracker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darecstowell/scratchboard
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 997 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 $0.00000 $0.00997
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00498
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00100

Measured 2d ago against content hash 145e8167ab3f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-tracker 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.

docs/agents/issue-tracker.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue tracker: local markdown

Tickets for this repo live as markdown files in .scratch/, and the board bakes them to the Pages demo on every push. The tickets are public copy.

Conventions

  • The status field is the lane, and the folder carries nothing. Every folder under .scratch/ is a piece of work, never a state.

  • One ticket per file: .scratch/<n>-<slug>.md, flat at the root. <n> is the next free number across the backlog.

  • State lives in YAML frontmatter, not in the body:

    ---
    title: Narrow the npm publish token to scratchboard alone
    status: ready-for-human
    priority: p0
    labels: [security, release, ci]
    ---
    

    status holds the triage role and places the card. See triage-labels.md for the strings.

  • The body starts with an # <title> heading and ends with a ## Done when section that a reader can verify.

  • Comments and history append to the bottom under a ## Comments heading.

Lane discipline

A ticket's status says where its work actually is, so moving a card means editing one line. Nothing carries done that is not shipped and verifiable in the history. A ticket whose status is a lie is a lie the demo tells on every page load.

The lanes are declared in scratchboard.json, one per value, in triage order. done and wontfix are collapsed, because a terminal lane grows without bound and nobody reads it. The board never writes status; an agent does, which is what "tickets are agent-driven, so the agent moves the card" already says.

When a skill says "publish to the issue tracker"

Write a new file at .scratch/<n>-<slug>.md. Take the next free number, add the frontmatter above with status: needs-triage, and give it a ## Done when section.

When a skill says "fetch the relevant ticket"

Read the file at the referenced path. The user usually gives the path or the ticket number. A backlog ticket is .scratch/<n>-*.md; an effort's ticket is .scratch/<effort>/issues/<NN>-*.md and numbers restart at 01 inside each effort, so the two can collide.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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 · 79 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 145e8167ab3f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

issue-tracker is an agent published in the GitHub repository darecstowell/scratchboard (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 997 tokens. 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.