issue-tracker

Repository instructions that define Clew as the project’s work-item tracker. GitHub is used only as the code remote, not for project tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to list, read, start, create, and finish Clew increments, and to interpret references to issues or the issue tracker in repository instructions.
Why use it?
They keep work items in the team’s chosen system and ensure agents use the project’s own terms and commands.

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/npatten/clew/issue-tracker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/npatten/Clew
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 366 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 $0.00366
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00183
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00037

Measured yesterday against content hash a68dc43909b4, 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 yesterday.

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 · 52 lines

What it actually says

Issue tracker: Clew

Work items for this repo live in Clew, not GitHub Issues.

GitHub is the code remote only. Do not suggest or use GitHub Issues for project work unless the user explicitly asks for GitHub integration.

Canonical commands

Always invoke Clew from the repository root as clew.

  • List work: clew list
  • Read a work item: clew show <id>
  • Create a work item: clew new "Title"
  • Start work: clew start <id>
  • Finish work: clew done <id>

Prefer creating increments with a markdown body supplied on stdin:

clew new "Title here" <<'EOF'
## Goal
...
EOF

When a skill says "issue"

Interpret "issue" as a Clew increment.

Use Clew vocabulary in user-facing output where possible:

  • Say Increment instead of issue/ticket.
  • Say Task for checkboxes inside an increment.
  • Say Tag for lightweight labels.
  • Say Status only for Clew lifecycle state.

When a skill says "publish to the issue tracker"

Create one or more Clew increments with clew new.

Publish dependency order first: blockers before blocked increments, so later increment bodies can reference earlier IDs.

When a skill says "fetch the relevant ticket"

Use clew show <id> and read the full increment text before acting.

Direct markdown edits

Direct edits to .clew/ files are acceptable for backlog sharpening, metadata tweaks, tags, and body edits when clearer than CLI ceremony.

Prefer CLI commands for lifecycle transitions with side effects, especially start, done, and abandon when available/documented.

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. yesterday First seen · 52 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a68dc43909b4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

issue-tracker is an agent published in the GitHub repository npatten/Clew (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 366 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.