github-issues

A tool for managing GitHub issues, which are tracked reports for bugs, feature requests, and work tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read, search, filter, and organize GitHub issues and project items, and to create or update issues through GitHub's command-line API.
Why use it?
It keeps issue details, comments, labels, assignments, milestones, and project status in one place.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/devantler-tech/agent-plugins/github-issues
Any agent
npx skills add devantler-tech/agent-plugins --skill github-issues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/devantler-tech/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,067 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 $0.00141 $0.02067
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01033
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00413
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00207

Measured yesterday against content hash 7cd61254c848, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/github/skills/github-issues/SKILL.md · 207 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Issues

Manage GitHub issues using the @modelcontextprotocol/server-github MCP server.

Available Tools

MCP Tools (read operations)

Tool Purpose
mcp__github__issue_read Read issue details, sub-issues, comments, labels (methods: get, get_comments, get_sub_issues, get_labels)
mcp__github__list_issues List and filter repository issues by state, labels, date
mcp__github__search_issues Search issues across repos using GitHub search syntax
mcp__github__projects_list List projects, project fields, project items, status updates
mcp__github__projects_get Get details of a project, field, item, or status update
mcp__github__projects_write Add/update/delete project items, create status updates

CLI / REST API (write operations)

The MCP server does not currently support creating, updating, or commenting on issues. Use gh api for these operations.

Operation Command
Create issue gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues -X POST -f title=... -f body=...
Update issue gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{number} -X PATCH -f title=... -f state=...
Add comment gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{number}/comments -X POST -f body=...
Close issue gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{number} -X PATCH -f state=closed
Set issue type Include -f type=Bug in the create call (REST API only, not supported by gh issue create CLI)

Note: gh issue create works for basic issue creation but does not support the --type flag. Use gh api when you need to set issue types.

Workflow

  1. Determine action: Create, update, or query?
  2. Gather context: Get repo info, existing labels, milestones if needed
  3. Structure content: Use appropriate template from references/templates.md
  4. Execute: Use MCP tools for reads, gh api for writes
  5. Confirm: Report the issue URL to user

Creating Issues

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 207 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A 7cd61254c848

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository devantler-tech/agent-plugins (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 2,067 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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