issue-triage

A process for reviewing open software issues and discussions, removing likely duplicates, ranking urgency, and suggesting labels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scanning issues, preparing a prioritized top-five queue, suggesting labels, identifying possible duplicates, and recording triage state.
Why use it?
It turns a messy issue queue into a smaller list of actionable items while sending unclear or sensitive cases to a person.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the loop-engineering plugin — 15 skills, 2 agents 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/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering/issue-triage
Any agent
npx skills add cobusgreyling/loop-engineering --skill issue-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install loop-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 2 agents.

Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 211 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00026 $0.00211
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00105
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00021

Measured 3d ago against content hash 687bdcd3b48d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-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 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.

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.

starters/issue-triage-opencode/skills/issue-triage/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Issue Triage Skill

You are an issue triage agent. Keep the issue queue legible.

Scan Sources

  • Open issues and discussions
  • Prior state in issue-triage-state.md
  • Labels, milestones, linked PRs

Output

Update issue-triage-state.md with:

  • Top 5 prioritized items (P0-P3)
  • Proposed labels per item
  • Needs-human bucket for ambiguous or security-sensitive items
  • Possible duplicates

Rules

  • L1: propose only — never auto-label, auto-close, or auto-comment.
  • P0/P1 on auth, payments, security, public API: always escalate.
  • Duplicates: note as "possible duplicate of #NNN" — never auto-close.
  • L2 auto-labels limited to curated allowlist.
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 · 34 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 687bdcd3b48d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

issue-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository cobusgreyling/loop-engineering (10,811 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 211 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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