A command that reads a GitHub issue, which is a tracked task or bug, and creates a new Git branch for it from the latest development code. It also summarizes the issue before handing the work over.

Use it to start work on an issue in the epam/ai-dial-core repository after GitHub CLI is installed and signed in.

It avoids manually copying issue details and preparing the starting branch. It gives the work a branch name based on whether the issue is a fix, feature, or maintenance task.

How epam/ai-dial-core configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to epam/ai-dial-core. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/epam/ai-dial-core/development/.claude/commands/start-issue.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/epam/ai-dial-core

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/epam/ai-dial-core/start-issue/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/epam/ai-dial-core/start-issue)

Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 331 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00013	$0.00331
Opus 5.5	$0.00005	$0.00132
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00066
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00033

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ad3ed1ccd8f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

start-issue 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 1mo 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.

.claude/commands/start-issue.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Start a GitHub issue

Issue number: $ARGUMENTS

Prerequisites

GitHub CLI (gh) must be installed and authenticated (gh auth login).

Steps

Fetch the issue from GitHub:

gh issue view $ARGUMENTS --repo epam/ai-dial-core --json title,body,labels,assignees,comments

Read it. Summarize to the user in 2-3 sentences.

Determine the branch prefix from the issue title/labels:
- fix/ — bugs, errors, incorrect behavior
- feat/ — new features, enhancements
- chore/ — maintenance, CI, deps, docs

Create the branch from latest development:

git stash  # if there are uncommitted changes
git checkout development
git pull origin development
git checkout -b {prefix}/issue-$ARGUMENTS

If the branch already exists, ask the user whether to reuse or recreate it.

After the branch is ready, hand off to the user for implementation. Use /finish-issue when ready to commit and /open-pr when ready to push and open a PR.

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.

1mo ago First seen · 37 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A ad3ed1ccd8f0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start-issue is a command published in the GitHub repository epam/ai-dial-core (661 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 331 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Git and workflow LLM ai-dial

code-review

Run the code-reviewer subagent on the current diff against origin/development (review-only, no edits).

epam/ai-dial-ui-kit · 22 tokens

review-changes

Alias for /code-review kept for backwards compatibility with the existing /feature-pipeline workflow.

epam/ai-dial-ui-kit · 0 tokens

design-ship

One-shot pipeline turning a claude.ai/design link into a pull request: scaffold via /ork:design-import, stories and specs via /ork:cover, browser verification via /ork:expect, then open the PR. Use when a design link should come back as a PR with no intermediate steps; if all you need is the components written to…

yonatangross/orchestkit · 84 tokens

commit

A command that examines staged Git changes and proposes a commit message using the Conventional Commits format, such as feat, fix, or docs. Git is a tool for tracking changes to code.

echoVic/blade-code · 8 tokens

pr

Handle the full workflow from current branch state to an open, CI-monitored pull request.

opsmill/infrahub-mcp · 18 tokens

careful

Blocks destructive shell commands once invoked: a PreToolUse Bash guard denies rm -rf outside temp dirs, force pushes and remote branch deletes, git reset --hard, DROP TABLE / DROP DATABASE / TRUNCATE, kubectl delete and terraform or tofu destroy, including inside ssh remote commands, and makes Claude ask the…