jira-issue-groom

jira-issue-groom is a command for Claude Code from skyfox675/agents-skills. It costs 123 tokens per session (1,185 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that clarifies a vague Jira issue by checking its intent, scope, and direction with an engineering or project lead, then rewrites it into a structured story. Jira is a tool for tracking development work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it on one or more incomplete Jira issues before technical investigation, so each issue explains the request clearly enough to review and plan.
Why use it?
Unclear requests cause developers to build the wrong thing or spend time guessing what is wanted. This separates what should be done and why from later technical planning.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it on one or more incomplete Jira issues before technical investigation, so each issue explains the request clearly enough to review and plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/skyfox675/agents-skills/jira-issue-groom
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Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skyfox675/agents-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 123 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,185 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 $0.00123 $0.01185
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00593
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00119

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3f787cfbb8e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jira-issue-groom 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 11d 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/jira-issue-groom.md · 37 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 37 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/jira-issue-groom — groom a story to ≥90% intent before tech review

Operate in caveman mode (load the caveman skill) for working output. Keep Atlassian-MCP calls, JQL, labels/fields, the GROOM contract line, and any existing acceptance-criteria text byte-exact; the description prose you write is the exception (humanizer — see the grooming-issues skill).

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Parse them as:

  • One or more issue keys (e.g. PROJ-530). Each is a raw, vague, or half-written issue that is not yet ready for development. A lead may drop several at once.
  • Optional model:<tier> / effort:<level>, anywhere — these pin the grooming agent's tier (default sonnet).

Example: /jira-issue-groom PROJ-530 PROJ-531

The grooming-issues skill is the protocol — the ≥90%-intent bar, the question channels, what may and may not be written to the description, the verdict states, and the output contract all come from it. Grooming captures the what and why; the how and the LoE come later from /jira-issue-recon. Jira reads/writes go through the Atlassian MCP (getJiraIssue, editJiraIssue, addCommentToJiraIssue, transitionJiraIssue) — allowlist your server's tools in .claude/settings.json (the mcp__atlassian__ prefix may differ); adopters without the MCP can substitute the Jira REST v3 API or a Jira CLI. Consult the skill before starting.

Hard rule (from grooming-issues): do not modify acceptance criteria already written in the issue unless the operator explicitly asks in this run. Existing AC is an approved contract. If it looks wrong, raise it as a question — don't rewrite it.

Steps

  1. Resolve the batch. Collect the issue keys (strip model:/effort: first). For each, getJiraIssue; skip and report any Done/closed or holding do-not-dispatch.

  2. Fan out, one grooming agent per issue, in parallel (single message, per the dispatching-subagents skill). Each agent is briefed with the grooming-issues sandbox verbatim, including the AC-preservation hard rule. It first reads any prior grooming questions + answers on the issue (a rerun resumes, not restarts), reads the issue and its linked context (only light repo reading for context — deep tracing is recon's job), and writes no code, asserts no LoE/technical approach, and never assigns the issue.

Read the full file on GitHub · 37 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. 11d ago First seen · 37 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A 3f787cfbb8e6

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jira-issue-groom is a command published in the GitHub repository skyfox675/agents-skills (10 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 1,185 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.