issue-work

issue-work is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel. It costs 75 tokens per session (2,223 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for selecting and completing GitHub issues, which are tracked work items in a code repository. It requires evidence such as tests, parity checks, and a commit audit before an issue is considered done.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose feasible backlog items, fix a specific issue, run its required checks, apply priority labels, and close the work through a verified commit.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork about what to work on next and makes completion verifiable rather than based only on a written claim.

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/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel/issue-work
Any agent
npx skills add anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel --skill issue-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,223 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 $0.00075 $0.02223
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01111
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00445
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00222

Measured 4d ago against content hash 87f653498a2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-work 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.

.claude/skills/issue-work/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue-work — complete the next most important issue, witnessed

The pick is an admission decision; the completion is a claim; only a witness closes it. Importance alone does not pick an issue — importance × feasibility does (an issue whose fix surface the SELF_MODIFY guard protects is not yours to take, however urgent). And "done" is never your narration: it is the issue's done-condition made TRUE, pinned by a test, landed in a commit whose subject dos commit-audit witnesses, with Fixes #N left for git ancestry — not you — to close. Worked example: #12 → commit 8e7f2f5 (the reference run of every step below).

Layering. Dev tooling that operates ON the repo (the /release tier) — it names a vendor (gh/GitHub), so it lives in .claude/skills/, never src/dos/skills/. The closing half is issue-verify; this skill is the completing half.

Public-repo note. Issue comments and labels are public documents — no dev-machine paths, hostnames, or private-process prose. Leak-scan every drafted body (python scripts/leak_scan.py --text-file <draft>) before posting; if the scanner is absent, the hand rule is the floor.

Step 1: Triage from the deterministic floor (skip if given an issue number)

python scripts/backlog_triage.py --top 12    # the typed, ordered queue (docs/315)

The script types every open issue into a closed disposition set and orders the offerable rows deterministically: priority tier → ready-label bias → freshness (the kernel's cooldown + pick-priority folds over the lane-journal OP_ATTEMPT history, unit id issue-N) → FIFO. The top row is the default pick. The floor is deterministic-first, advisory-only (the JUDGE-rung split): you may deviate, but state the one-line reason — the operator reads it to audit the triage, not to re-do it.

What each disposition hands you:

  • READY (code) — implement it; the steps below.
  • READY (execute-plan) — a design issue whose docs/NN plan exists: ship the plan's next unshipped phase (dos verify it first — never trust the plan's own status prose).
  • NEEDS_PLAN (write-plan) — the unit of work IS the docs/NN plan: write it, link it from the issue, and stop there (implementation is a later pick).
  • COOLING / T1_GATED / OPERATOR_GATED — not yours; surface it, don't pick it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 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 · 182 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 87f653498a2b

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issue-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel (19 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 2,223 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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