shape-issues

A method for turning rough ideas into clearly scoped GitHub Issues. Shape Up is a product-development method that sets boundaries and a time limit before work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a problem, compare solution ideas, set a timebox, prioritize work, and create issues ready for developers.
Why use it?
It helps replace vague requests with a shared problem, possible approach, risks, scope limits, and a realistic size.

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/dryvist/claude-code-plugins/shape-issues
Any agent
npx skills add dryvist/claude-code-plugins --skill shape-issues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dryvist/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 472 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 $0.00016 $0.00472
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00236
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00047

Measured yesterday against content hash ca836c9b6f4b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shape-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.

github-workflows/skills/shape-issues/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Shape Issues

Iterative issue exploration and shaping process that transforms rough ideas into well-defined, time-boxed GitHub Issues using Shape Up methodology and continuous discovery principles.

Attribution: Based on work by roksechs

Phases

  1. Problem Exploration: Examine raw ideas, map pain points, assess timebox
  2. Solution Sketching: Brainstorm approaches, set scope boundaries, identify risks
  3. Issue Formation: Problem statement, timebox, solution sketch, rabbit holes
  4. Betting Table: Prioritize by timebox, balance portfolio, set circuit breakers
  5. Issue Crafting: Create GitHub Issues with size labels, add ready-for-dev label for developer pickup

Sizing

Label Duration
size:xs < 1 day
size:s 1-3 days
size:m 3-5 days
size:l 1-2 weeks
size:xl 2+ weeks

Workflow

  1. Gather context: gh issue list, gh pr list
  2. Explore problem: user complaints, workflow friction, timebox check
  3. Sketch solutions: 2-3 approaches, scope boundaries, rabbit holes
  4. Set timebox: spike vs small batch vs big batch
  5. Create issue: gh issue create with template, add ready-for-dev label

Issue Template

Key sections: Problem (raw idea, pain, size), Solution Sketch (concept, out of scope), Rabbit Holes (complexity traps), Done Looks Like (acceptance criteria).

Usage

/shape-issues

Workflow: /shape-issues -> implementation -> /ship

  • pr-standards (git-standards) — PR authoring and review standards applied after issues are implemented
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 · 55 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A ca836c9b6f4b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shape-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository dryvist/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 472 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 2026-08-31.

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