magpie-issue-stale-sweep

magpie-issue-stale-sweep is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from apache/magpie. It costs 80 tokens per session (5,853 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review of open issues, which are reported tasks or problems in a software project's tracker, that have had no activity for a chosen period. It proposes either asking the reporter for an update or closing the issue as abandoned.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find dormant open issues, draft update or pre-close comments, and review proposed actions in bulk before confirming them.
Why use it?
It helps maintainers deal with forgotten issues while keeping the decision and final action under human control.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the magpie plugin — 45 skills shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install magpie, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills.

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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 5,853 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 $0.00080 $0.05853
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.02926
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00585

Measured 4d ago against content hash 009571d8be27, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

magpie-issue-stale-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 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.

skills/issue-stale-sweep/SKILL.md · 532 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 532 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

issue-stale-sweep

This skill is the stale-issue sweep for the project's general issue tracker. It identifies open issues that have had no new comment or update activity past a configurable inactivity threshold, classifies each as either REQUEST-UPDATE or CLOSE-STALE, and — on the user's explicit confirmation — posts one lightweight comment per issue (a nudge or a pre-close notice, as appropriate).

The skill never closes, labels, transitions, or edits any tracker field without confirmation. The decision belongs to the maintainer; this skill surfaces the candidates and pre-drafts the comments so the maintainer can review in bulk and confirm or skip individually.

It composes with:

  • issue-triage — the main triage skill for unsorted-new issues; stale-sweep is the hygiene pass for the open-but- dormant pool.
  • issue-reassess — for the resolved / EOL pool (stale-sweep handles the still-open dormant pool instead).

Disposition vocabulary

The skill uses exactly two disposition classes:

Class When to propose Follow-up action
REQUEST-UPDATE Issue is dormant past the warn threshold but not yet past the close threshold; reporter has not recently responded Post a nudge comment asking the reporter to confirm the issue is still relevant on the current <default-branch>; no state change yet
CLOSE-STALE Issue is dormant past the close threshold and has already received a REQUEST-UPDATE nudge with no response, or is dormant past a hard-close threshold with no nudge needed Post a pre-close notice and, on a second explicit confirmation, close the issue

Read the full file on GitHub · 532 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 · 532 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 009571d8be27

Subscribe to this mod's changes

magpie-issue-stale-sweep is a skill published in the GitHub repository apache/magpie (87 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 5,853 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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