to-issues

to-issues is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from drvoss/everything-copilot-cli. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,480 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning aid that turns an approved plan, specification, or product requirements document into small implementation issues. Each issue covers a testable end-to-end result and records its dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create an actionable backlog from a plan or product requirements document, split large initiatives into reviewable slices, and identify dependencies.
Why use it?
It prevents broad tickets from hiding too much work or creating unsafe delegation. Teams can see what can proceed independently and what is blocked.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,480 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 $0.00035 $0.01480
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00740
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00296
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00148

Measured yesterday against content hash f895304526db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

to-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.

skills/workflow/to-issues/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

To Issues

To Issues turns a plan into independently executable backlog items. The goal is not to split work by layer, but to create thin vertical slices that are reviewable, testable, and dependency-aware.

When to Use

  • A plan, spec, or PRD is approved and now needs implementation tickets
  • A broad initiative must be broken into thin, demoable slices
  • The current backlog is too coarse to delegate safely
  • You need to separate work that can proceed independently from work that is blocked

When NOT to Use

Instead of to-issues Use
You are still defining the feature itself create-prd or planning first
You need to triage an existing issue backlog github-issue-triage
The work is already small enough to execute directly do the task

Workflow

1. Start from an approved source

Use a real input artifact:

  • plan
  • PRD
  • spec
  • parent issue

Do not create issue slices from an unresolved conversation.

2. Extract vertical slices

Each issue should represent a thin end-to-end path, not a horizontal layer split.

Good slices usually:

  • have one clear outcome
  • can be tested or demonstrated on their own
  • expose their dependency relationship to other slices

Bad slices are things like "database changes only" or "UI updates only" if they cannot be verified in isolation.

Exception — wide refactors: a single mechanical change (rename a column, retype a shared symbol) can have a blast radius that fans across the whole codebase, breaking thousands of call sites at once so no vertical slice can land green. Do not force this shape into a tracer bullet — see Wide Refactor Exception below.

3. Mark blockers explicitly

For each proposed issue, identify:

  • what it delivers
  • what blocks it
  • whether it can start immediately

Publish blockers first so later issues can reference them cleanly.

4. Review the breakdown before publishing

Show the user the proposed issue set and ask whether:

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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. yesterday First seen · 191 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A f895304526db

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to-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository drvoss/everything-copilot-cli (45 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,480 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 2026-09-03.

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