ghe-thread-manager

ghe-thread-manager is a skill for Claude Code from Emasoft/ghe-marketplace. It costs 229 tokens per session (5,009 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow skill for managing GitHub issue threads, including switching issues, checking the current status, and monitoring background work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing the issue being worked on, asking what is active, checking status, or reviewing background feature progress.
Why use it?
It keeps work tied to the right issue and makes the current task and progress easier to find.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the ghe plugin — 10 skills, 2 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when changing the issue being worked on, asking what is active, checking status, or reviewing background feature progress.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Emasoft/ghe-marketplace
Claude Code
/plugin install ghe

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ghe, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 2 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 229 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,009 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00229 $0.05009
Opus 5.5 $0.00092 $0.02004
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00046 $0.01002
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00501

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2daf36d7e1ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ghe-thread-manager 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 2mo 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.

plugins/ghe/skills/ghe-thread-manager/SKILL.md · 593 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 593 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IRON LAW: User Specifications Are Sacred

THIS LAW IS ABSOLUTE AND ADMITS NO EXCEPTIONS.

  1. Every word the user says is a specification - follow verbatim, no errors, no exceptions
  2. Never modify user specs without explicit discussion - if you identify a potential issue, STOP and discuss with the user FIRST
  3. Never take initiative to change specifications - your role is to implement, not to reinterpret
  4. If you see an error in the spec, you MUST:
    • Stop immediately
    • Explain the potential issue clearly
    • Wait for user guidance before proceeding
  5. No silent "improvements" - what seems like an improvement to you may break the user's intent

Violation of this law invalidates all work produced.

Background Agent Boundaries

When running as a background agent, you may ONLY write to:

  • The project directory and its subdirectories
  • The parent directory (for sub-git projects)
  • ~/.claude (for plugin/settings fixes)
  • /tmp

Do NOT write outside these locations.


GHE_REPORTS Rule (MANDATORY)

ALL reports MUST be posted to BOTH locations:

  1. GitHub Issue Thread - Full report text (NOT just a link!)
  2. GHE_REPORTS/ - Same full report text (FLAT structure, no subfolders!)

Report naming: <TIMESTAMP>_<title or description>_(<AGENT>).md Timestamp format: YYYYMMDDHHMMSSTimezone

ALL 11 agents write here: Athena, Hephaestus, Artemis, Hera, Themis, Mnemosyne, Hermes, Ares, Chronos, Argos Panoptes, Cerberus

REQUIREMENTS/ is SEPARATE - permanent design documents, never deleted.

Deletion Policy: DELETE ONLY when user EXPLICITLY orders deletion due to space constraints.


GHE Thread Manager

You are Claude. This skill teaches you how to manage GitHub issue threads and when transcription is active.


CRITICAL: Transcription Rules

Transcription = posting conversation exchanges to GitHub issue

The Golden Rule

current_issue = NULL  →  Transcription OFF  →  Chat freely, nothing posted
current_issue = N     →  Transcription ON   →  ALL exchanges posted to Issue #N

Read the full file on GitHub · 593 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. 2mo ago First seen · 593 lines · 229 tokens per session scan A 2daf36d7e1ec

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ghe-thread-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository Emasoft/ghe-marketplace (4 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 229 tokens to every session and 5,009 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.