break-into-gh-issues

break-into-gh-issues is a command for Claude Code from oalders/kitchen-sink. It costs 11 tokens per session (1,075 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that breaks a large piece of work into smaller GitHub issues, with a tracking issue for the overall task. GitHub issues are work items used to plan and track changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps decide whether work should stay in one issue or be split into independent tasks, and prepares any needed labels.
Why use it?
It makes oversized work easier to review, assign, and complete, while keeping related pieces connected.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the kitchen-sink plugin — 9 skills, 20 commands, 12 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps decide whether work should stay in one issue or be split into independent tasks, and prepares any needed labels.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/oalders/kitchen-sink/break-into-gh-issues
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oalders/kitchen-sink

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kitchen-sink, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 20 commands, 12 hooks.

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Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,075 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00011 $0.01075
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00537
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00108

Measured 9d ago against content hash b33173240aa8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

break-into-gh-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 9d 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.

commands/break-into-gh-issues.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Break down the current feature or work into small, manageable GitHub issues.

Label Management: Before using any label that may not exist, create it first using gh label create "<label-name>" --description "<description>" --color "<hex-color>" (the command succeeds either way: creating the label if it doesn't exist, or printing a message if it does).

Decision Criteria

Choose the appropriate approach based on the scope of work:

Use single-issue approach when:

  • Estimated changes are <= 400 lines (excluding dependencies, vendor dirs, docs)
  • Work can be completed as one logical unit
  • Changes are tightly coupled and can't be meaningfully separated
  • No opportunity for parallel work

Use multi-issue approach when:

  • Estimated changes are > 400 lines (excluding dependencies, vendor dirs, docs)
  • Work can be split into independent components
  • Multiple developers could work in parallel
  • Clear boundaries exist between different parts of the work

Estimating Line Counts

When estimating line counts for issues:

  • Exclude: node_modules, vendor directories, docs
  • Include: All application code, tests, configuration files
  • Quick estimation methods:
    • Count files affected x average lines per file
    • Reference similar past issues as benchmarks
    • Use git diff --stat on comparable changes

Example estimation:

# For a completed feature, check actual line count
git diff --stat <base-branch> <feature-branch> -- . ':(exclude)node_modules' ':(exclude)vendor' ':(exclude)docs'

# Output might show:
# 5 files changed, 287 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
# Net change: ~242 lines (fits in single issue)

Common Sections (All Issues)

Every issue should include:

Overview and Goals

Brief description of the feature and what it aims to accomplish

Design Details

Comprehensive design covering:

  • Architecture and components
  • Implementation approach
  • File structure and changes
  • Success criteria

Single-Issue Workflow

When work fits within a single issue:

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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. 9d ago First seen · 137 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A b33173240aa8

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break-into-gh-issues is a command published in the GitHub repository oalders/kitchen-sink (4 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 1,075 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 2026-08-31.