issue-conventions-drift

issue-conventions-drift is a skill for Claude Code from artem-from-ua/claude-plugins. It costs 87 tokens per session (635 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only checker that compares a repository's documented issue rules with its GitHub labels and issues. It reports differences but changes nothing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find missing or extra labels, changed colours or descriptions, issues that break the rules, unused values, and other inconsistencies.
Why use it?
It finds silent drift caused by hand-editing the document or changing labels in GitHub. This prevents the written rules and the live issue tracker from gradually disagreeing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the issue-conventions plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to find missing or extra labels, changed colours or descriptions, issues that break the rules, unused values, and other inconsistencies.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add artem-from-ua/claude-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install issue-conventions

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 635 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.
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 $0.00087 $0.00635
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00254
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00064

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 33a19b45a468, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-conventions-drift 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 1mo 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/issue-conventions/commands/issue-conventions-drift/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue Conventions — Drift Check

Read-only. Reports what disagrees and how to fix it; changes nothing, so it is safe to run any time.

Steps

1. Load the taxonomy

Resolve the config (.claude-plugin/ → .claude/ → ~/.claude/) and take taxonomyDocument.

No config → say this repo has no taxonomy and point at /issue-conventions-setup. A document that fails to parse is itself the finding: report the line the parser names, since a document nothing can read is the worst drift there is.

2. Run the mechanical half

bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/drift-check.sh" <document>

Set operations over JSON — labels declared but missing on GitHub, labels on GitHub nobody declared, color and description drift, issues breaking the rules, unused values, resurrected built-ins. No model needed for any of it.

3. Finish with the subagent

Launch it with ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/drift-check.md as instructions and the script's JSON as input, using models.driftCheck and efforts.driftCheck (haiku/low by default — half the work is already done, what remains is interpretation).

It decides the parts that need judgment: whether a documented norm survives contact with the actual corpus, whether modules on disk are genuinely uncovered, and whether the footer's sync date is stale. Then it writes the report.

4. Report

Show the subagent's report as it comes. Do not soften it and do not act on it — this command reports, the user decides.

Two things it must get right, and both are in the subagent's instructions: the document is the source of truth, so every fix pulls GitHub up to it, never the reverse. And unused values are INFO, not divergences — a closing reason nobody used means nothing was closed that way, and reporting it as a problem trains people to skip the report.

When everything agrees, that is one line, not a table.

Fixing what it finds

  • Labels missing on GitHub, or color and description drift → /issue-conventions-relabel reconciles them in its second step, or gh label create --force directly.
  • Issues breaking the rules → /issue-conventions-relabel.
  • Undeclared labels on GitHub → a decision: add to the document, record as keep in the legacy mapping, or delete from GitHub.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 1mo ago First seen · 51 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 33a19b45a468

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issue-conventions-drift is a skill published in the GitHub repository artem-from-ua/claude-plugins (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 635 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 2026-09-08.