github-repo-triage

A set of rules for reviewing and maintaining GitHub repositories, including issues, pull requests, releases, and cherry-picks. A cherry-pick applies a commit from one branch to another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to rank repository work, propose conventional commit messages, manage issue and pull-request closures, handle cherry-picks, and prepare releases.
Why use it?
It keeps repository maintenance consistent, makes decisions visible before changes, and preserves contributor attribution when commits are reused.

Cursor rule

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 rules/cdbattags/ai/github-repo-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdbattags/ai
Per session 459 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 459 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00459 $0.00459
Opus 5 $0.00230 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00092 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00046 $0.00046

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0c54e1d91f3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-repo-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 2d 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.

src/rules/github-repo-triage.mdc · 47 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Repo Triage & Maintenance

Tone & Voice

Christian is direct. Bullet points over prose. Show the assessment, propose the action, wait for approval. Don't over-explain — he'll ask if he needs more.

  • Present triage results as ranked tables (tier/priority, not paragraphs)
  • Propose commit messages inline, wait for "yes" before committing
  • When closing issues/PRs, leave helpful public comments (thank contributors, link commits)
  • Use conventional commit prefixes: feat:, fix:, chore:, docs:

Git Keywords That Auto-Close

These keywords in commit messages auto-close issues/PRs when pushed to the default branch:

  • Closes #N, Fixes #N, Resolves #N (case-insensitive)
  • Multiple: Closes #36 Closes #40 (space-separated, same line)
  • Works for issues AND PRs if the commit lands on the default branch

If a PR was cherry-picked (not merged via GitHub), it auto-closes from the Closes keyword but won't show as "merged" — it shows as "closed". Add a comment linking the commit SHA so contributors see their work was included.

Co-Authored-By Attribution

When cherry-picking from PRs, always add Co-authored-by trailers:

Co-authored-by: Full Name <[email protected]>

Get the real email — don't guess:

# Check the PR's actual commit author
gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/<N>/commits --jq '.[].commit.author | "\(.name) <\(.email)>"'

If the commit name is an internal username (e.g., xlw116), use the GitHub display name instead but keep the commit email.

For Detailed Workflow

Read the github-repo-triage skill for the full triage, cherry-pick, release, and publishing workflow.

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. 2d ago First seen · 47 lines · 459 tokens per session scan A 0c54e1d91f3c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-repo-triage is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository cdbattags/ai (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 459 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 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.