paul:consider-issues

A command for reviewing deferred issue notes, such as ISSUES.md or user-acceptance testing files, against the current codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a milestone or periodically to find issue files, assess every open issue, group the results, and decide what action to take.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish problems that are already fixed from those that are urgent, fit naturally into future work, or can wait.

Command

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 commands/christopherkahler/paul/consider-issues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ChristopherKahler/paul
Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 335 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 $0.00019 $0.00335
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00168
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00034

Measured 3d ago against content hash 35234bd0d6a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paul:consider-issues 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 3d 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.

src/commands/consider-issues.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

When to use: Periodically or before milestone completion.

<execution_context> @~/.claude/paul-framework/workflows/consider-issues.md </execution_context>

The workflow implements:

  1. Find all issue files (ISSUES.md, phase-scoped UAT files)
  2. Parse open issues (ISS-NNN, UAT-NNN format)
  3. Analyze each against codebase (resolved? urgent? natural-fit?)
  4. Present categorized report
  5. Offer actions (close resolved, insert urgent, note for planning)
  6. Update files as needed

<success_criteria>

  • All open issues analyzed against current codebase
  • Each issue categorized (resolved/urgent/natural-fit/can-wait)
  • Clear reasoning provided for each categorization
  • Actions offered based on findings
  • Files updated if user takes action </success_criteria>
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. 3d ago First seen · 42 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 35234bd0d6a6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paul:consider-issues is a command published in the GitHub repository ChristopherKahler/paul (1,212 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 335 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.