create-issue

A guide for creating detailed GitHub issues that contain the problem, technical plan, acceptance checklist, and instructions for the coding agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use `/create-issue` to create feature, bug, or refactoring issues with test-first implementation steps, acceptance criteria, and pull-request instructions.
Why use it?
It turns a brief request into a self-contained work packet, reducing uncertainty about what to build and how to decide whether it is finished.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the metaswarm plugin — 14 skills, 16 commands, 19 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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/dsifry/metaswarm/create-issue
Any agent
npx skills add dsifry/metaswarm --skill create-issue
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dsifry/metaswarm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install metaswarm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 16 commands, 19 agents, 2 hooks.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,799 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 $0.00025 $0.02799
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01399
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00560
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00280

Measured 3d ago against content hash ef754d96d526, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-issue 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 3d 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/create-issue/SKILL.md · 497 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 497 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create GitHub Issue Skill

Create comprehensive, well-structured GitHub issues with embedded agent instructions for autonomous PR lifecycle management.

Overview

This skill generates GitHub issues that are self-contained work packets. Each issue includes:

  1. Problem/Feature specification with clear scope
  2. Technical specification with types, schemas, and API design
  3. TDD Implementation Plan with test-first cycles
  4. Acceptance Criteria checklist
  5. Agent Instructions for complete PR lifecycle (implementation → review → merge)

Usage

/create-issue

Interactive Flow

Step 1: Issue Type

Ask the user:

What type of issue is this?
1. Feature - New functionality
2. Bug - Something broken
3. Refactor - Improving existing code

Step 2: Brief Description

Brief description of the problem or feature? (1-2 sentences)

Step 3: Complexity Assessment

What's the estimated complexity?
1. Simple (< 1 day)
2. Medium (2-5 days)
3. Complex (> 1 week)

Step 4: Context Gathering

Any related files, services, or issues I should reference?
(Or say "explore codebase" and I'll investigate)

Step 5: Generate Issue

Based on inputs, generate the full issue using the appropriate template below.


Issue Templates

Feature Template

## Summary

[1-2 sentence description]

**Complexity**: [simple|medium|complex]
**Estimated Effort**: [X days]

---

## Problem

[What problem does this solve? Why is it needed?]

### Evidence

[Logs, metrics, user reports, or reasoning]

### Scope

- IN SCOPE: [what's included]
- OUT OF SCOPE: [what's explicitly NOT included]

---

## Architecture Decision

**Decision**: [What approach will be taken]
**Rationale**: [Why this approach, why NOT alternatives]

---

## Technical Specification

### Types/Interfaces

```typescript
// Key type definitions
```

Zod Schemas (if applicable)

// Validation schemas

API Endpoints (if applicable)

Read the full file on GitHub · 497 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. 3d ago First seen · 497 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A ef754d96d526

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-issue is a skill published in the GitHub repository dsifry/metaswarm (407 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 2,799 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 2026-08-30.

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