github_issues_prs

Rules for creating GitHub Issues and pull requests, which are records of work and proposed code changes. They cover titles, labels, duplicate checks, safe formatting, assignment, and repository links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when opening or updating GitHub issues and pull requests for features, bugs, refactors, documentation, or infrastructure work.
Why use it?
They reduce inconsistent task records, broken line breaks, duplicate entries, and missing project metadata.

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/emissium/cursor-rules/github_issues_prs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emissium/cursor-rules
Per session 2,070 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,070 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 $0.02070 $0.02070
Opus 5 $0.01035 $0.01035
Sonnet 5 $0.00414 $0.00414
Haiku 4.5 $0.00207 $0.00207

Measured yesterday against content hash c9dcfc5547c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github_issues_prs 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 yesterday.

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.

git/github_issues_prs.mdc · 232 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Issues & PR Creation (Canonical, Idempotent, Newline-Safe)

Purpose

Standardize creation of GitHub issues and pull requests so they are:

  • newline-safe (no \n artifacts; bodies preserved via file -F)
  • deduplicated before creation
  • labeled consistently and thoughtfully
  • auto-assigned to the requestor
  • linked to Knowledge Graph (Task:* → GitHub: <url>) with a single canonical link

This rule builds on the repo workflow policy and must be followed for all task/feature/bug work.

Prerequisites

  • Authenticated GitHub CLI:
    • gh auth status
  • Dynamic repo slug (never hardcode):
    • SLUG=$(gh repo view --json nameWithOwner -q .nameWithOwner)
  • If unset default repo causes errors:
    • gh repo set-default "$SLUG"

Title & Label Conventions

  • Issue titles follow: P{0|1|2}: <TaskName> — <short description>
  • Labels policy:
    • Default type: enhancement for tasks/features; use bug for defects
    • Priority: add exactly one of priority:P0|priority:P1|priority:P2 based on title prefix
    • Area: add one or more of: area:api, area:worker, area:infra, area:docs, area:client
    • Kind: optionally add kind:refactor, kind:perf, kind:security, kind:ci
    • Status: optionally add status:ready | status:blocked

Recommended minimal label sets:

  • Features: enhancement, priority:P?, area:<x>
  • Bugs: bug, priority:P?, area:<x>

Assignment

  • Always assign the creator: --assignee "@me"
  • Optional reviewers for PRs: --reviewer "@me" (self-review placeholder) and add teammates as needed.

Newline-Safe Bodies (Fix for \n token bleed)

ALWAYS write the body to a file and pass with -F/--body-file. Use single-quoted heredocs to preserve literal newlines and avoid shell interpolation.

Example:

cat > /tmp/issue.md <<'EOF'
Context: why this is needed
Acceptance criteria:
- item 1
- item 2
EOF

gh issue create --repo "$SLUG" -t "P1: My Task — short" -F /tmp/issue.md \
  --label enhancement --label "priority:P1" --label "area:api" \
  --assignee "@me"

Read the full file on GitHub · 232 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. yesterday First seen · 232 lines · 2,070 tokens per session scan A c9dcfc5547c0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github_issues_prs is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository emissium/cursor-rules (7 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,070 tokens to every session, about $0.0103 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.