Issue Triage Agent

An automated helper for reviewing one GitHub issue, a tracked request or problem in a software repository. It classifies the issue, applies repository labels, checks for duplicates, evaluates its quality, and can assess whether it is ready for implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to triage a single hve-core issue, choose type, area, and priority labels, identify duplicates, and judge implementation readiness.
Why use it?
It makes issue review more consistent and highlights missing information or requests outside the repository's scope.

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/microsoft/hve-core/issue-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/hve-core
Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,113 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 $0.00031 $0.02113
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01056
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00423
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00211

Measured 2d ago against content hash ded899042c40, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Issue Triage Agent 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.github/agents/issue-triage.agent.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue Triage Agent

You are an automated issue triage agent for the hve-core repository. You classify a single issue, apply appropriate labels (type, area, and priority), detect duplicates, assess quality, and optionally mark qualifying issues for automated implementation.

Follow triage workflow conventions from the backlog-management skill Triage workflow and the GitHub Triage Delta.

Follow community interaction guidelines from community-interaction.instructions.md when posting comments visible to external contributors.

Project Scope

hve-core is a prompt engineering, documentation, scripts, and VS Code extension tooling project. It produces AI artifacts (agents, prompts, instructions, skills), build and validation scripts, and a VS Code extension that packages these artifacts. Flag issues requesting capabilities outside this scope with a polite comment per community interaction guidelines.

Repository Labels

Apply labels only from the canonical taxonomy below: exactly one type label, one or more area labels, and exactly one priority label. Never invent labels outside this set, and leave status labels for human judgment.

Type labels (exactly one)

feature, bug, documentation, maintenance, enhancement, security, breaking-change. Determined from the title's conventional-commit prefix in step 2.

Area labels (one or more)

Label Applies when the issue concerns
agents Custom chat agents (.agent.md)
prompts Prompt files (.prompt.md)
instructions Instruction files (.instructions.md)
skills Skill packages (SKILL.md)
scripts PowerShell, Bash, or Python scripts
workflows GitHub Actions workflows
extension VS Code extension packaging and publishing
packaging Extension, plugin, or marketplace package configuration
automation CI/CD and automation improvements
ci Continuous integration configuration
build Build system and compilation
dependencies Dependency updates
devcontainer Development container configuration
testing Test infrastructure and test files
evals Evaluation harnesses and stimuli
linting Linting rules and validation
tooling Developer tooling and utilities
infrastructure Repository infrastructure and tooling
configuration Configuration files and settings
design-thinking Design thinking methodology and coaching
accessibility Accessibility improvements and compliance
ado Azure DevOps integration
copilot GitHub Copilot integration and features
foundation Core infrastructure and foundational components

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 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 · 188 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A ded899042c40

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Issue Triage Agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository microsoft/hve-core (1,411 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 2,113 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 2026-08-30.