address-issue

address-issue is a skill for Claude Code from cboone/agent-harness-plugins. It costs 49 tokens per session (3,044 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A workflow for taking a GitHub issue—a tracked task or bug—and completing it in the current code branch. It can find the issue, plan the work, make changes, and commit them with issue references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fix or implement a GitHub issue by number or description, optionally previewing the plan, skipping the commit, or committing each logical change separately.
Why use it?
It removes the need to copy issue details into the coding session and manually track the work through planning and committing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: names the ExitPlanMode tool; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the address-issue plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to fix or implement a GitHub issue by number or description, optionally previewing the plan, skipping the commit, or committing each logical change separately.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cboone/agent-harness-plugins/address-issue
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 cboone/agent-harness-plugins --skill address-issue
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cboone/agent-harness-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install address-issue, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,044 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00049 $0.03044
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.01218
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00609
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00304

Measured 15d ago against content hash 6fdd181a78b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

address-issue scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 15d 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

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plugins/address-issue/skills/address-issue/SKILL.md · 253 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 253 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Address Issue

Fetch a GitHub issue, plan the work, stop for approval, then execute changes and commit with issue references.

Options

The user may provide these options inline:

  • --dry-run: Fetch and analyze the issue, present the plan, but do not change files or GitHub state, including assignments and labels
  • --no-approval: Skip the approval stop in step 6 and go straight from the plan to execution
  • --no-commit: Make changes but do not commit them
  • --commit-per-change: Commit after each logical change instead of grouping at the end

--dry-run and --no-approval are opposite ends of the same gate: --dry-run stops permanently after the plan, the default stops and resumes once the user approves, and --no-approval never stops.

Several Issues

Several issue numbers, as in /address-issue 42 57, share one plan and one approval gate. Step 6 may propose separate PRs and must identify which changes belong on the current branch. workmux:start-issue chains into this form when it opens one worktree for several issues. Every step below applies to each issue, as follows:

  • Step 1: fetch every issue by number. Several issues are always given as numbers; descriptive text names one issue and follows the single-issue workflow.
  • Step 2: check each issue's state. Ask about every closed issue at once, and drop any the user declines.
  • Step 3: unless --dry-run was specified, self-assign and label each open issue, recording the result for each one.
  • Step 4: show every issue's context, one block per issue.
  • Step 5: classify each issue and extract its sub-tasks, keeping track of which issue each sub-task came from.
  • Step 6: collect every issue's requirements into one plan, headed ## Plan for Issues #42, #57, that says which change serves which issue. There is one approval gate for the whole plan, not one per issue.
  • Step 8: each commit references every issue its change addresses, as in feat: add dark mode toggle (#42, #57), and together the commits reference every issue addressed on the current branch. The commit prefix follows the classification of the issue or issues the commit addresses.
  • Steps 9 to 11: report the status of every issue, including which are marked in progress and which sub-tasks remain for each.

Read the full file on GitHub · 253 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. 15d ago Changed · +4 lines · -1 tokens per session 6fdd181a78b2
  2. 16d ago Changed 05147f916766
  3. 20d ago Changed · +16 lines · +14 tokens per session fb046d565ecb
  4. 26d ago Changed · +1 lines 4d3162893f5e
  5. 1mo ago Changed · -5 lines · -79 tokens per session 20099067862b
  6. 1mo ago Changed · +19 lines · +6 tokens per session 12e6009e14f0
  7. 1mo ago First seen · 218 lines · 109 tokens per session scan C 86a6a49725a2

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address-issue is a skill published in the GitHub repository cboone/agent-harness-plugins (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 3,044 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.