address-issue

address-issue is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cboone/agent-harness-plugins. It costs 109 tokens per session (1,933 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 CodeCodex

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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cboone/agent-harness-plugins/address-issue
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, Codex.

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

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for address-issue

README.md
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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,933 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00109 $0.01933
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00966
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00387
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00193

Measured 3d ago against content hash 86a6a49725a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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 · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Address Issue

Fetch a GitHub issue, analyze it, plan and execute the work in the current branch, 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 make changes
  • --no-commit: Make changes but do not commit them
  • --commit-per-change: Commit after each logical change instead of grouping at the end

Workflow

1. Find the Issue

The user provides either an issue number or descriptive text.

By number:

gh issue view NUMBER --json number,title,labels,assignees,body,state

By text (fuzzy search):

gh issue list --search "USER_TEXT" --state all --json number,title,labels,state --limit 10

If the search returns exactly one result, proceed automatically with that issue without asking for additional confirmation.

If the search returns multiple results, present them to the user and ask which one to use.

If no results, try broadening the search or ask the user to refine their query.

2. Check Issue State

If the issue is closed, warn the user and ask whether to proceed. Do not proceed without confirmation.

3. Mark Issue In Progress

If the issue is open, signal that work is starting. Skip this step for closed issues.

Self-assign:

gh issue edit NUMBER --add-assignee @me

Ensure the label exists, then add it:

gh label create "in progress" --description "Work is actively being done" --color FBCA04 2> /dev/null || true
gh issue edit NUMBER --add-label "in progress"

The gh label create command is safe to run even if the label already exists. 2> /dev/null suppresses the "already exists" error and || true ensures a zero exit code so the subsequent command always runs. This ensures the label is available before gh issue edit --add-label attempts to use it, since gh does not auto-create labels.

Self-assignment is idempotent, safe to re-run if the assignee already exists.

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 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. 3d 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 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 1,933 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 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.