github-triage

github-triage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from andrewsrigom/agent-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (526 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to reviewing and preparing GitHub issues, which are reports or requests tracked in a code repository. It classifies issues, checks whether they contain enough information, and recommends the next state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review issue text, labels, and comments, gather just enough codebase context, identify missing details, and decide whether work needs information, design, or implementation.
Why use it?
It helps maintainers separate bugs, enhancements, questions, duplicates, and out-of-scope requests before implementation work starts.

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/andrewsrigom/agent-skills/github-triage
Any agent
npx skills add andrewsrigom/agent-skills --skill github-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andrewsrigom/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 526 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 $0.00047 $0.00526
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00263
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00053

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2d8515125702, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-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 4d 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.

engineering/github-triage/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Triage

Use this skill when the task is to sort, qualify, or prepare GitHub work.

Scope

  • reviewing new issues
  • categorizing bugs vs enhancements
  • identifying missing information
  • deciding whether an issue is ready for implementation
  • summarizing next action for maintainers or agents

Default path

  1. Read the issue body, labels, and recent comments.
  2. Restate the problem in one line.
  3. Decide whether it is:
    • bug
    • enhancement
    • question
    • duplicate or out of scope
  4. Check the codebase only enough to understand the relevant domain and likely boundary.
  5. Recommend one next state:
    • needs info
    • ready to implement
    • needs design
    • not actionable
  6. If actionable, note the likely testable behavior and affected boundary.

When to deviate

  • Investigate deeper only if the issue already looks actionable and the missing confidence is technical rather than descriptive.
  • Escalate to design instead of implementation when the issue is really a product or UX decision.
  • Close as duplicate or out of scope only when that state is defensible from the issue history or codebase context.

Guardrails

  • Do not start implementing during triage.
  • Do not over-investigate before deciding whether the issue is even valid.
  • Keep the issue durable: describe behavior, not file paths.
  • Separate “not enough information” from “not a real bug.”

Avoid

  • jumping into code changes during triage
  • over-reading the codebase before deciding whether the issue is valid
  • confusing missing information with invalid reports
  • writing triage notes that only make sense if the file layout never changes

Verification checklist

  • the issue is restated in one clear sentence
  • the category is explicit
  • missing information, if any, is concrete
  • the next state is chosen intentionally
  • if actionable, the likely boundary and testable behavior are identified

Output Shape

When answering with this skill, prefer:

  • issue summary
  • category
  • confidence level
  • missing information, if any
  • recommended next action

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 4d ago First seen · 76 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 2d8515125702

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github-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository andrewsrigom/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 526 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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