gh-issue

gh-issue is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from apache/skywalking-banyandb. It costs 91 tokens per session (3,082 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for sizing and writing BanyanDB issues so another developer can implement them without further clarification. It covers splitting broad designs into smaller, testable work items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review issue scope, write implementation-ready tickets, split umbrella issues, and prepare work for test-driven development (TDD), where tests guide the implementation.
Why use it?
It helps prevent issues that are too large, vague, or missing a clear failing test and completion boundary.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the banyandb-bydbql plugin — 5 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

About the project

Apache SkyWalking BanyanDB is a database for collecting, analyzing, and storing metrics, traces, and logs produced by observability and application-performance systems. It is intended for platforms such as Apache SkyWalking that need to work with monitoring data.

apache/skywalking-banyandb · 350 stars · on GitHub

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/skywalking-banyandb/gh-issue
Any agent
npx skills add apache/skywalking-banyandb --skill gh-issue
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apache/skywalking-banyandb

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install banyandb-bydbql, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,082 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 $0.00091 $0.03082
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01541
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00616
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00308

Measured yesterday against content hash e63f7a791d8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gh-issue 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 yesterday.

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/gh-issue/SKILL.md · 293 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 293 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing a BanyanDB Issue

BanyanDB's issues live in the apache/skywalking tracker, not in this repository — apache/skywalking-banyandb has issues disabled. Label them database, which is the component label for BanyanDB.

A good issue is one somebody can implement from without asking you a question. That is a higher bar than "clear", and it is the bar that decides whether an issue sits untouched for a year.

Size the work before polishing the issue

Issue length is not issue size. Inspect the design and the relevant production code before drafting. Count independently testable behaviour, integration seams, callers, format families, lifecycle domains, fixture work, and test suites. A short issue that says "replace the index" can be much larger than a long issue that fixes one query operation.

Always produce a short size audit during review, even if it will not appear in the filed body:

## Size audit
Classification: executable leaf | tracking parent
Boundary: <one seam, or the several seams that make this a parent>
Production activation: <the caller switched by this merge>
RED test: <the command and the observable failure on current main>
End to end: <the real operation proved by the merge>
Format/lifecycle scope: <sections or algorithms; read/write/publish/merge/GC/etc.>
Fixtures and oracle: <who supplies expected values independently of the code under test>
Focused suites: <commands>
Dependencies present on main: yes | no — <evidence>
Decision: <fits one run, or the exact split required>

Do not infer the answers only from the proposal. Use repository evidence such as interfaces, call sites, packages, fixtures, and existing tests. Treat line count as supporting evidence, never as the sole sizing rule.

Executable leaf versus tracking parent

An executable leaf must satisfy all of these:

  • It exposes one agreed boundary and delivers one behaviour end to end.
  • The same merge switches at least one named production or CLI caller to it.
  • Every requirement has a RED test that fails on current main for a stated reason and passes after the change.
  • One focused end-to-end scenario proves the real caller, not just an isolated codec or helper.
  • Expected values and persisted bytes come from an independent oracle.
  • Its prerequisites and the seam it builds on are already merged to main.
  • A contract author can create the boundary and RED tests in one workflow turn, and an implementer can reasonably complete the production change in the next.

Read the full file on GitHub · 293 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. yesterday First seen · 293 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A e63f7a791d8e

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gh-issue is a skill published in the GitHub repository apache/skywalking-banyandb (350 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 3,082 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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