adev:issues

A tool for managing project issues and larger groups of related work, called epics. It supports issue lists, statuses, priorities, dependencies, and links to specification files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, update, close, list, and prioritize bugs, features, tasks, and epics in a file-based or beadsrust issue system.
Why use it?
It removes the need to track work items manually across separate notes or systems and helps show what can be worked on next.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/agentic-development/adev-plugin/issues
Any agent
npx skills add agentic-development/adev-plugin --skill issues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentic-development/adev-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,499 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 $0.00082 $0.04499
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.02250
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00900
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00450

Measured 2d ago against content hash 72c3846da4d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adev: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 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.

providers/codex/skills/issues/SKILL.md · 317 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 317 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue Management

Manage project issues and epics using the configured task backend.

Announce at start: "I'm using the adev:issues skill to manage project issues."

Arguments

  • No arguments: display the full issue board
  • create "<title>" [--type bug|feature|task] [--epic <epic-id>] [--priority 0-4] [--spec-ref <path>] [--next-action <text>]: create an issue
  • epic "<title>" [--milestone <name>]: create a new epic in the epic store, optionally assigning it to a milestone
  • update <id> --status <open|in_progress|closed|deferred> [--milestone <name>]: update issue status and/or milestone (for epics). --status and --milestone can be used together or independently — both fields are updated in a single call
  • close <id> --reason "<text>": close an issue with a reason
  • list [--status <status>] [--epic <epic-id>] [--milestone <name>]: filtered issue list. --milestone filters to epics and issues belonging to epics with that milestone
  • dep <issue-id> <depends-on-id>: add a blocking dependency
  • ready: show actionable issues (open + unblocked)

Prerequisites

Check that .context-index/ exists with manifest.yaml. If not:

Run /adev:init first to set up the context index.

Process

Backend Resolution

The active backend is whatever tasks.backend names in .context-index/manifest.yaml. The default is json (.context-index/tasks/tasks.json); file (legacy markdown, read-only) and beads are also supported.

Nothing has to be resolved here. Every adev issues sub-verb reads the manifest, selects the matching adapter, and resolves the storage root from the git common dir on its own — so one invocation is correct from the main checkout and from a linked worktree alike. The board storage is created on the first write, so there is no separate initialisation step to run.

Load Skill Extensions: Load any skill extension instructions before proceeding:

adev skill-ext load --skill issues

If the output is not __NONE__, incorporate it as additional standing instructions that apply to this skill's entire execution. Frame it as: "The following skill extension instructions apply to this invocation (source: installed domain extensions and/or project-level overrides)." If the output is __NONE__, continue normally.

Read the full file on GitHub · 317 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 317 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 72c3846da4d0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adev:issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentic-development/adev-plugin (11 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 4,499 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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