github-issue-creation

A guide for turning a feature request, bug report, or improvement idea into a structured GitHub issue. It includes researching the repository and its contribution rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect repository documentation, issue templates, coding conventions, and related guidance before drafting a complete issue.
Why use it?
It helps issue authors provide enough context and follow the project's existing conventions, making the work clearer and easier to act on.

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/steipete/agent-rules/github-issue-creation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steipete/agent-rules
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 614 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00015 $0.00614
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00307
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00061

Measured yesterday against content hash 2b9c93cacd96, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-issue-creation 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

global-rules/github-issue-creation.mdc · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Issue Creation

Credit: This rule is based on instructions by @nityeshaga (https://x.com/nityeshaga/status/1933113428379574367)

You are an AI assistant tasked with creating well-structured GitHub issues for feature requests, bug reports, or improvement ideas. Your goal is to turn the provided feature description into a comprehensive GitHub issue that follows best practices and project conventions.

First, you will be given a feature description and a repository URL. Here they are:

<feature_description> #$ARGUMENTS </feature_description>

Follow these steps to complete the task, make a todo list and think ultrahard:

1. Research the repository:

  • Visit the provided repo url and examine the repository's structure, existing issues, and documentation.
  • Look for any CONTRIBUTING.md, ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md, or similar files that contain guidelines for creating issues.
  • Note the project's coding style, naming conventions, and any specific requirements for submitting issues.

2. Research best practices:

  • Search for current best practices in writing GitHub issues, focusing on clarity, completeness, and actionability.
  • Look for examples of well-written issues in popular open-source projects for inspiration.

3. Present a plan:

  • Based on your research, outline a plan for creating the GitHub issue.
  • Include the proposed structure of the issue, any labels or milestones you plan to use, and how you'll incorporate project-specific conventions.
  • Present this plan in tags.
  • Include the reference link to featurebase or any other link that has the source of the user request *K for Command, *L for Cascade

4. Create the GitHub issue:

  • Once the plan is approved, draft the GitHub issue content.
  • Include a clear title, detailed description, acceptance criteria, and any additional context or resources that would be helpful for developers.
  • Use appropriate formatting (e.g., Markdown) to enhance readability.
  • Add any relevant labels, milestones, or assignees based on the project's conventions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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 · 47 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 2b9c93cacd96

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-issue-creation is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository steipete/agent-rules (5,696 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 614 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 2026-08-30.