github-issues

github-issues is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dannote/dot-pi. It costs 25 tokens per session (649 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A GitHub workflow skill for working with Issues, which are GitHub's records for bugs, tasks, and discussions. It uses the `gh` command-line tool to view, triage, create, link, fix, and close issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect issue details, create or edit issue reports, connect issues with commits, and close completed issues.
Why use it?
It avoids shell-quoting problems when sending long Markdown descriptions to GitHub. It also encourages checking repository guidance before filing issues in someone else's project.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./node_modules/.bin/command --help.

Good fit Use it to inspect issue details, create or edit issue reports, connect issues with commits, and close completed issues.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dannote/dot-pi
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dannote/dot-pi/github-issues

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 649 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00025 $0.00649
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00260
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00065

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 649949252808, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-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 1mo 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/github-issues/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Issues Workflow

Markdown bodies: never inline multiline text

Never pass multiline Markdown through --body "...". Shell quoting can leak literal \n into GitHub.

Always write Markdown to a temp file and use --body-file:

cat > /tmp/body.md <<'EOF'
## Summary

- ...

## Tests

- `...`
EOF

gh pr create --body-file /tmp/body.md
# or
gh pr edit <number> --body-file /tmp/body.md
# or
gh issue create --body-file /tmp/body.md

Review handoff

For PR inspection, use the pr-review skill. This skill handles GitHub issue and PR mechanics such as reading templates, using --body-file for multiline Markdown, and checking existing comments before closing or posting.

View issue

gh issue view <number>

Create issue safely

For non-trivial bodies, always write the draft to a temp file first. Do not inline long Markdown with shell quoting.

cat > /tmp/issue.md <<'EOF'
### What happened?

...
EOF

gh issue create --repo OWNER/REPO --title "Short title" --body-file /tmp/issue.md

Before creating issues in someone else's repo, check templates/contributing docs and keep the report concise.

gh api repos/OWNER/REPO/contents/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE --jq '.[].name'
gh api repos/OWNER/REPO/contents/CONTRIBUTING.md --jq .content | base64 --decode

If gh issue create prompts for confirmation, review the preview carefully before accepting.

  • Commits: fix: description (#1) or fix: description (fixes #1) — auto-closes on merge to default branch
  • Changelog: ([#1](https://github.com/owner/repo/issues/1))
  • Release notes: fixes #1 — does NOT auto-close, must close manually

Public replies

Use the maintainer-reply skill before drafting or posting issue and PR replies. Read the conversation first; do not apply a generic thank-you or mention a fix version when it is unknown or irrelevant.

Close with comment

When closing with a reply, mention the fix version when known and thank the reporter when appropriate to the conversation:

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 1mo ago Changed · +8 lines 649949252808
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 86 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 2cfe7ef4c9f1

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github-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository dannote/dot-pi (57 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 649 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.