triage

triage is a command for coding agents from HigorAlves/orc. It costs 46 tokens per session (2,658 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for sorting incoming issues and external pull requests into clear states and agent-ready work briefs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Categorising issues, verifying reported problems, reviewing external pull requests when configured, then writing a brief, parking the item, or rejecting it.
Why use it?
It prevents unclear, invalid, or unsuitable requests from reaching implementation without being checked and described.

Command

Part of the orc plugin — 80 skills, 30 commands, 14 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

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/higoralves/orc/triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HigorAlves/orc

Or install orc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 80 skills, 30 commands, 14 agents, 5 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for triage

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/higoralves/orc/triage.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/higoralves/orc/triage)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/higoralves/orc/triage"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/higoralves/orc/triage.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 46 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,658 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 5.1 $0.00046 $0.02658
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01329
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00532
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00266

Measured 5d ago against content hash bfd76b6f4192, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

triage 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 5d 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.

orc/commands/triage.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.

/orc:triage

Move issues on the project tracker through a small state machine of triage roles: categorise → verify the claim → grill if needed → write an agent-ready brief, park it, or reject it.

If the tracker config treats external pull requests as a request surface, triage covers them too: a PR is an issue with attached code — same roles, same states, same machine, with the PR deltas marked below. Resolve a bare #42 to an issue or PR per the tracker config.

Phase 0 — Read the tracker layer

Run the orc:tracker-config read protocol (issue-tracker.md + triage-labels.md). It owns the missing-config gate — one canonical ask, and a "use defaults" answer is recorded as a settled decision so no tracker-aware command re-asks this session.

Tracker dispatch:

  • GitHub — issues and external PRs via gh (orc:gh-cli). PRs are in discovery scope only when the config's "PRs as a request surface" flag is yes; an explicitly named PR is always triaged regardless.
  • Jira — work items via acli (orc:jira-cli); triage state is applied as Jira labels per triage-labels.md. External PRs, when in scope, are still read via gh.
  • Local markdown — edit the Status: / Category: lines and ## Comments sections in the issue files the config points at.

Also read docs/agents/domain.md and follow its consumer rules (glossary vocabulary, ADR awareness) for every codebase exploration below.

Roles

Two category roles — bug (something is broken) and enhancement (new feature or improvement) — and five state roles:

  • needs-triage — maintainer needs to evaluate
  • needs-info — waiting on reporter for more information
  • ready-for-agent — fully specified, ready for an AFK agent
  • ready-for-human — needs human implementation
  • wontfix — will not be actioned

For a PR the same states read against the attached code: ready-for-agent means a brief is attached and an agent should take the next step on the diff; ready-for-human means it's ready for a human to merge.

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. 5d ago First seen · 188 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A bfd76b6f4192

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triage is a command published in the GitHub repository HigorAlves/orc (6 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,658 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 2026-08-31.