TMDb: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/triage-issues/SKILL.md

triage-issues is a skill for Claude Code from adamayoung/TMDb. It costs 0 tokens per session (4,978 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for reviewing every issue in the Backlog column of a TMDb GitHub Project. A backlog is a list of work that has not yet been prepared for action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to close outdated issues, move actionable issues to Ready with priority and size, and document why other issues remain in Backlog.
Why use it?
It turns an unreviewed issue list into a clearer queue by checking which issues still apply and what decision each one needs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

This is adamayoung/TMDb's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on TMDb itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything TMDb configures →

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is is not mounted there ([ADR-0009](../../../knowledge/decisions/0009-github-mcp-over-gh-cli.md).

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to adamayoung/TMDb. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adamayoung/TMDb/main/.claude/skills/triage-issues/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adamayoung/TMDb

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,978 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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  • medium Excessive Agency · line 9
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
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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 $0.00000 $0.04978
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02489
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00996
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00498

Measured 10d ago against content hash 57ca8f25438f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

triage-issues 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 10d 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/skills/triage-issues/SKILL.md · 393 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 393 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Triage Issues

Grooms the Backlog column of the TMDb GitHub Project into a queue someone can work from without asking a question first.

The board is at github.com/users/adamayoung/projects/<n>; issues live in adamayoung/TMDb. This skill owns the Ready test, the four exits, the wontfix rules and the skip rule; the priority and size rubrics live in .claude/workflows/triage-issues.js (RUBRIC), the copy handed to every agent — nothing else in the repo restates any of them. Issue creation is owned by .github/ISSUE_FILING.md; this skill consumes what that produces.

Contract

Input: nothing. It discovers its own work. Output: field updates on the board, at most one comment per changed issue, a Project status update carrying the ordered run-list, and a summary to the caller. Never: opens a PR, edits source, or changes an issue that is not in Backlog.

Phase 1 — Resolve the board, and the tree

Project operations go through the GitHub MCP (mcp__github__projects_*), not gh project. Per ADR-0009 the MCP is the default and gh covers only the enumerated exceptions, which Projects is not — and concretely, gh project requires a read:project token scope this repo's usual token does not carry, so the gh route fails at the first call.

Resolve by title, never a hard-coded number — the number changes if the board is recreated, and a stale number makes every later write a silent no-op:

mcp__github__projects_list / list_projects   owner: adamayoung, owner_type: user
→ select the project whose title is exactly "TMDb"

Zero matches or more than one → stop and say so. Do not guess.

"Headless" here means unattended within a session — it decides for itself. It cannot run on a GitHub Actions runner: the Project MCP is user-scoped and is not mounted there (ADR-0009 records this as the reason claude.yml and integration-failure.yml stay on git/gh), and gh project needs a scope this repo's token lacks. Wiring this to a cron would fail at the call above.

Read the full file on GitHub · 393 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. 10d ago First seen · 393 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 57ca8f25438f

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triage-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository adamayoung/TMDb (176 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 4,978 tokens. 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.