good-first-issue-sweep

good-first-issue-sweep is a skill for Claude Code from apache/magpie. It costs 80 tokens per session (4,398 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review of open issues to find existing tasks suitable for newcomers. It classifies each candidate as ready for a good-first-issue label, almost ready, or unsuitable using a defined rubric.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to sweep an issue backlog, identify beginner-friendly work, and see what needs editing before an issue can receive the good-first-issue label.
Why use it?
It helps maintainers turn useful backlog items into clearer entry points for new contributors. Labels are only applied after maintainer confirmation.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the magpie-mentoring plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to sweep an issue backlog, identify beginner-friendly work, and see what needs editing before an issue can receive the good-first-issue label.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/apache/magpie/good-first-issue-sweep
About the project

Apache Magpie is a framework of agent-assisted workflows for maintaining Apache software projects, including issue triage, pull-request review, contributor mentoring, and security-report handling. Apache maintainers and developers use it to delegate repetitive project work to coding agents while retaining human review. Its catalogue entries are the skills, instructions, plugin, and settings that implement these workflows.

apache/magpie · 120 stars · on GitHub · magpie.apache.org

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.

Any agent
npx skills add apache/magpie --skill good-first-issue-sweep
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apache/magpie

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install magpie-mentoring, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,398 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00080 $0.04398
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.01759
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00880
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00440

Measured 5d ago against content hash 585468115d63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

good-first-issue-sweep 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 5d 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.

plugins/magpie-mentoring/skills/good-first-issue-sweep/SKILL.md · 388 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 388 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

good-first-issue-sweep

Pre-flight — is this project set up?

Do this first, before anything else in this skill, and do it silently. One command answers it and carries its own rules; there is nothing else to read.

Run the checker with this skill's own frontmatter name: and surface_hash:, and one --requires for each requires_config: entry:

PYTHONPATH=".apache-magpie-local:$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)/../.apache-magpie-local:$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)/apache-magpie" \
  python3 -m setup_preflight --skill <name> --hash <surface_hash> [--requires <file>]...

The path finds the checker /magpie-setup:setup config installed in the personal layer: this checkout's .apache-magpie-local/, the main checkout's when this is a linked worktree, or the git directory's apache-magpie/ when Magpie is only installed.

  • {"verdict": "ok"} → silent. Continue into the work the user asked for and say nothing about pre-flight. This is the ordinary answer.
  • {"verdict": "action", ...} → each finding names a section, and rules carries that section's text. Follow it. The facts are the inputs; what to propose, and what may not be done, are in the rules rather than here. Act on a finding only through its rules.
  • The command did not run at all — no such module, a non-zero exit, no python3 — → never read that as a pass, and do not re-derive the check by hand: it lives in code so that there is one version of it. If the project has no .apache-magpie.lock, .apache-magpie-overrides/, or personal layer (any of the three directories above), nothing has been set up here and there is nothing to reconcile — resolve this skill's requires_config: entries yourself (first match wins: .apache-magpie-local/<file>, the main checkout's .apache-magpie-local/<file>, <git-common-dir>/apache-magpie/<file>, then .apache-magpie-overrides/<file>), stay silent if they all resolve, and run /magpie-setup:setup config for this skill if any does not, which also installs the checker. Otherwise the project is set up and its checker is missing or stale: say so, propose /magpie-setup:setup config to install it or /magpie-setup:setup upgrade to refresh it, and carry on with the work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 388 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. 5d ago Changed · +2 lines 585468115d63
  2. 11d ago Changed · -3 lines · -15 tokens per session 02e05aec522b
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  5. 27d ago Changed · -2 tokens per session 3693033470e5
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  10. 1mo ago First seen · 323 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 9fdf61c42b21

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good-first-issue-sweep is a skill published in the GitHub repository apache/magpie (120 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 4,398 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.