github-issue-triage

A workflow for organizing GitHub Issues, which are GitHub's records for bugs, requests, and other work. It reads issues, applies labels, sets priorities, finds related issues, and assigns work across repositories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to triage open issues, categorize bugs and feature requests, search across repositories, link issues to pull requests, and create periodic issue reports.
Why use it?
It turns an unorganized issue backlog into queues that are easier to understand and act on. It can also help find duplicates and connect issues with pull requests for tracking.

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/drvoss/everything-copilot-cli/github-issue-triage
Any agent
npx skills add drvoss/everything-copilot-cli --skill github-issue-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drvoss/everything-copilot-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,476 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 $0.00045 $0.01476
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00738
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00148

Measured 2d ago against content hash 724786f08089, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-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 2d 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/copilot-exclusive/github-issue-triage/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Issue Triage & Management

Why This is Copilot-Exclusive

Copilot CLI has native GitHub Issue tools baked into its MCP server — list_issues, search_issues, issue_read with sub-methods for comments, labels, and sub-issues. These structured tool calls return rich, typed data that Copilot can reason over directly. Claude Code has no built-in GitHub integration and must rely on gh issue list with fragile text parsing.

When to Use

  • Triaging a backlog of open issues across one or more repositories
  • Auto-categorizing issues by content (bug, feature, docs, etc.)
  • Finding duplicate or related issues before filing new ones
  • Building one queue from both issues and external-contributor PRs
  • Linking issues to pull requests for traceability
  • Generating weekly issue reports or burndown summaries

Workflow

1. List Open Issues with Filters

Tool: github-mcp-server-list_issues
  owner: "my-org"
  repo: "my-app"
  state: "OPEN"
  labels: ["bug"]
  orderBy: "UPDATED_AT"
  direction: "DESC"
  perPage: 25

2. Search Across Repositories

Find issues matching a keyword across your entire org:

Tool: github-mcp-server-search_issues
  query: "memory leak is:open"
  owner: "my-org"

3. Read Issue Details and Comments

Tool: github-mcp-server-issue_read
  method: "get"
  owner: "my-org"
  repo: "my-app"
  issue_number: 87

Tool: github-mcp-server-issue_read
  method: "get_comments"
  owner: "my-org"
  repo: "my-app"
  issue_number: 87

4. Check Sub-Issues

For tracking epics and parent/child relationships:

Tool: github-mcp-server-issue_read
  method: "get_sub_issues"
  owner: "my-org"
  repo: "my-app"
  issue_number: 42

5. Get Labels for Classification

Tool: github-mcp-server-issue_read
  method: "get_labels"
  owner: "my-org"
  repo: "my-app"
  issue_number: 87

6. Pull External-Contributor PRs into the Queue

If the inbox includes PRs as well as issues, filter for outside contributors first and then route those PRs through the same triage state model you use for issues.

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 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. 2d ago First seen · 180 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 724786f08089

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-issue-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository drvoss/everything-copilot-cli (45 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,476 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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