groom-epics

groom-epics is a command for Claude Code from vinnie357/claude-skills. It costs 12 tokens per session (1,675 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for correcting structure and planning problems in Linear epics after an audit. Linear is a project-management tool for organising software work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps repair one issue or a whole project by checking access, reviewing epic requirements, and updating incompatible planning details.
Why use it?
It prevents partial edits when access or required planning information is missing and applies fixes within a defined scope.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the linear plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit It helps repair one issue or a whole project by checking access, reviewing epic requirements, and updating incompatible planning details.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/vinnie357/claude-skills/groom-epics
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinnie357/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install linear, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands.

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Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,675 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 $0.00012 $0.01675
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00838
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00335
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00168

Measured 9d ago against content hash 20a6dd771792, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

groom-epics 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.

plugins/tools/linear/commands/groom-epics.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fix VantageEx compatibility issues across one epic or a whole project. Scoped, pre-flight-gated, and offloads the audit pass to a haiku mapper so the parent session never holds full descriptions for an entire project.

Steps

  1. Load the /linear skill
  2. Read the epic format spec at references/epic-format.md
  3. Read the audit checklist at references/audit-checklist.md
  4. Read the team definition template at templates/0.1.0/team-definition.md

Phase A — Pre-flight

Run on every invocation. Halt with a clear message if any check fails — never partial-progress.

  1. Verify Linear access. Pass if either:

    • The Linear MCP server is registered (claude mcp list shows a linear-server entry), OR
    • LINEAR_API_KEY environment variable is set.

    If neither, halt with:

    Linear access is not configured. Set up one of:

  2. Resolve scope from arguments:

    • --issue=<key> (e.g., --issue=VIN-42) → single-issue path. Skip Phase B; audit + groom inline.
    • --project=<slug> → project path. Continue to Phase B.
    • Neither → ask the user which scope.
  3. For project scope: identify open-state IDs. Query the team's workflowStates and keep only states whose type is in {triage, backlog, unstarted, started}. Exclude any state whose type is completed or canceled — grooming closed epics is forbidden and would mutate finished work.

  4. Count candidates. Query the project for issues in the open-state IDs only. Print the count.

  5. Overload gate. If count >= --max-issues (default 50), refuse to proceed without --confirm-bulk. Suggest narrowing with --issue=<key> or batching as a follow-up. This is a hard gate — --auto does not bypass it.

Phase B — Mapper (project scope only)

Spawn a single read-only haiku agent to audit all candidates and return a compact digest. The parent session never holds the full descriptions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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 · 163 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 20a6dd771792

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groom-epics is a command published in the GitHub repository vinnie357/claude-skills (25 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,675 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 2026-09-03.