triage-new-issues

triage-new-issues is a skill for Claude Code from britt/agent-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (828 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for reviewing new GitHub issues and assigning each a priority from P0 to P3. It also suggests labels, owners, and cases that need escalation or clarification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess incoming bug reports and requests, find issues without labels, recommend priority labels, and identify work that needs immediate attention or more information.
Why use it?
It turns an unorganised issue queue into a clearer list of urgent, important, routine, and low-priority work.

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 assess incoming bug reports and requests, find issues without labels, recommend priority labels, and identify work that needs immediate attention or more information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/britt/agent-skills/triage-new-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 triage-new-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 triage-new-issues/plugin install triage-new-issues after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 828 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 $0.00047 $0.00828
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00414
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00083

Measured 9d ago against content hash 11a8f3d05494, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

triage-new-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/triage-new-issues/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Triage New Issues Skill

Review new or untriaged GitHub issues, assess priority based on urgency signals, suggest labels, and recommend owners.

When to Use

Activate when:

  • Processing new incoming issues
  • Reviewing untriaged backlog
  • Assessing issue priority
  • Assigning issues to owners

Fetching and Applying Triage

Use the gh CLI (must be installed and authenticated):

# Find untriaged issues
gh issue list --search 'no:label' --json number,title,body,labels

# Apply labels after triage
gh issue edit <n> --add-label <label>

Priority Signals

Critical (P0)

Keywords: "down", "outage", "security", "vulnerability", "production", "urgent", "ASAP", "breach" Labels: critical, security, production Action: Immediate attention required

High (P1)

Keywords: "blocking", "regression", "broken", "can't use", "data loss", "crash" Labels: blocker, regression, priority/high Action: Address this sprint

Medium (P2)

Keywords: "bug", "incorrect", "should", "expected", "wrong" Labels: bug, priority/medium Action: Schedule for upcoming sprint

Low (P3)

Keywords: "nice to have", "minor", "cosmetic", "enhancement", "workaround exists" Labels: enhancement, low-priority Action: Add to backlog

Triage Guidelines

Assessment Process

  1. Read title and full description
  2. Scan for urgency keywords and labels
  3. Check for existing labels that signal priority
  4. Assess impact (how many users affected)
  5. Look for workarounds mentioned
  6. Check if duplicate of existing issue
  7. Determine ownership: check CODEOWNERS, recent git log on affected paths, or past assignees of similar issues — omit the assignee suggestion if none found

When to Escalate

  • Security vulnerabilities → Flag immediately
  • Production outages → Notify on-call
  • Data integrity issues → High priority regardless of other signals

When to Ask Questions

  • Unclear reproduction steps
  • Missing environment details
  • Ambiguous severity ("it's broken" but unclear impact)
  • No indication of urgency or timeline

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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 · 118 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 11a8f3d05494

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triage-new-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository britt/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 828 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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