build-faq-from-issues

build-faq-from-issues is a skill for Claude Code from britt/agent-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (691 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns resolved GitHub issues into a categorized FAQ. GitHub issues are project discussions used to report problems, ask questions, and record fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or update onboarding and support FAQs from closed issues, including links back to the original discussions.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated support questions by collecting recurring problems and their verified resolutions in one document.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agent-skills plugin — 28 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to build or update onboarding and support FAQs from closed issues, including links back to the original discussions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/britt/agent-skills/build-faq-from-issues
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 britt/agent-skills --skill build-faq-from-issues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/britt/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin build-faq-from-issues/plugin install build-faq-from-issues after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 691 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 $0.00048 $0.00691
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00345
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00069

Measured 9d ago against content hash 28e8c7eaa6dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-faq-from-issues 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 9d 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/build-faq-from-issues/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build FAQ from Issues Skill

Extract common questions from closed GitHub issues and generate a structured FAQ document with answers and source links.

When to Use

Activate when:

  • Creating or updating a project FAQ
  • Documenting common support questions
  • Reducing repeat questions in issues
  • Onboarding new users/contributors

When NOT to use: not for open-issue triage, changelogs or release notes, or repos with too few closed issues to find recurring patterns.

Workflow

Prerequisite: requires the gh CLI authenticated to the target repository.

  1. List closed issues: gh issue list --state closed --limit 200 --json number,title,labels,url. Optionally filter by question/support labels (e.g. --label question).
  2. Read resolutions for candidate issues with gh issue view <n> --comments to find the accepted answer or fix.
  3. Group recurring questions — cluster issues that ask the same thing into a single candidate FAQ entry.
  4. Synthesize a standalone answer for each entry from the clearest resolution.
  5. Emit the FAQ using the template below.

Output Structure

## FAQ: [Project/Topic]

**Generated from**: [X closed issues] | **Labels**: [question, help, support]

### General

#### Q: [Common question]

[Answer synthesized from issue resolution]

— See #123

#### Q: [Another question]

[Answer]

— See #456

### Setup & Installation

#### Q: [Setup question]

[Answer with steps if needed]

— See #789

### Troubleshooting

#### Q: [Error or problem question]

[Answer with solution]

— See #101

### Configuration

#### Q: [Config question]

[Answer]

— See #202

Guidelines

Question Selection

  • Focus on closed/resolved issues
  • Prioritize issues labeled: question, help, support, faq
  • Include frequently recurring questions
  • Skip one-off bugs or feature requests

Answer Quality

  • Write standalone answers (don't require reading the issue)
  • Include concrete steps when applicable
  • Keep answers concise but complete
  • Link to docs if more detail exists elsewhere

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 9d ago First seen · 117 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 28e8c7eaa6dc

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build-faq-from-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository britt/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 691 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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