github-triage

github-triage is a skill for Claude Code from bendrucker/claude. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,181 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A GitHub inbox cleanup workflow for bot and Dependabot notifications. Dependabot is GitHub's automated dependency-update service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect notification threads, mark merged or closed pull requests as done, merge eligible dependency updates in repositories you maintain, and dismiss low-value items.
Why use it?
It removes settled or low-value bot notifications so genuine human discussions are easier to find.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to inspect notification threads, mark merged or closed pull requests as done, merge eligible dependency updates in repositories you maintain, and dismiss low-value items.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bendrucker/claude/github-triage
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add bendrucker/claude --skill github-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bendrucker/claude

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,181 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 $0.00050 $0.01181
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00472
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00118

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 50df19ff6d48, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-triage 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.

user/skills/github-triage/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Triage

Clear bot and Dependabot noise from the notification inbox, leave threads from real humans. --dry-run classifies and prints the plan without acting.

Inbox

!gh api "notifications?all=true&per_page=100" --paginate | jq -r '.[] | [.id, .reason, .subject.type, .repository.full_name, (.subject.url | sub(".*/pulls/";"#") | sub(".*/issues/";"issue#")), .subject.title] | @tsv' | column -t -s $'\t'

Triage against all=true. The default call returns only unread; the app Inbox also shows read-but-not-done threads, where most stale noise sits. First column is the thread id, which is also the mark-done key.

Gather

Resolve your own login once: gh api user --jq .login. For each open PullRequest thread:

  • gh api repos/<r>/pulls/<n> --jq '{author:.user.login, state, merged:(.merged_at!=null)}'. Any closed/merged PR is settled: mark done, skip the rest.
  • gh pr view <n> --repo <r> --json mergeStateStatus. Merge gate, per the table below. It computes async, so re-fetch once on UNKNOWN.
  • gh api repos/<r> --jq .permissions.push. true means you can merge.
  • Latest actor, only for a your-own-PR-in-your-own-repo thread: gh api <subject.latest_comment_url> --jq '{login:.user.login, type:.user.type}'.
mergeStateStatus Meaning Action
CLEAN green, no conflict, current mergeable
BLOCKED needs review or a required check leave, never force
BEHIND base moved leave, Dependabot rebases
UNSTABLE / DIRTY check failed or conflict classify by importance
UNKNOWN not computed re-fetch once

Classify

First match wins.

  • Closed or merged PR → done, whatever the author or reason. Largest category: every merge and every landed bump leaves a read-but-not-done thread.
  • Bot or self activity on your own PR → done. PR author is you, repo owner is you, and the latest actor is you or a bot (type Bot): your own automation (Worktrunk, Greptile, CI) and replies on your own work. Exception: a different human as latest actor is real feedback, leave it. Personal namespace only, not shared orgs.
  • Open human thread (reason mention/comment, or a person authored) → leave.
  • Open non-Dependabot bot (e.g. github-actions[bot] generated content) → leave; the diff is real.
  • Open Dependabot, CLEAN, you have push → merge, then done.
  • Open Dependabot, not mergeable, low-importance → done, leave PR open. Low-importance: deps-dev tooling (eslint, prettier, globals, ncc, @types/*) and routine CI-action bumps (actions/checkout, actions/cache, goreleaser-action).
  • Open Dependabot, not mergeable, runtime/prod dep → leave. Shipped deps, Go modules, security bumps (golang.org/x/*, through2, undici) are a real call.
  • Non-PR: Release → done; RepositoryAdvisory → leave (security).

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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 · 68 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 50df19ff6d48

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github-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository bendrucker/claude (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,181 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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