What is ghe-transition?

A workflow step for moving a GitHub Elements task from one phase to the next, such as from development to testing or review. It closes the current discussion thread and opens the next one.

Use it when work is complete in one phase and should begin in another, for example moving from DEV to TEST or from TEST to REVIEW.

It makes a phase change explicit instead of treating it as a routine progress update. This keeps work and its discussions organized by stage.

ghe-transition — Skill for Claude Code by Emasoft

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.

Any agent

npx skills add Emasoft/ghe-marketplace --skill ghe-transition

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Emasoft/ghe-marketplace

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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/emasoft/ghe-marketplace/ghe-transition/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/emasoft/ghe-marketplace/ghe-transition)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/emasoft/ghe-marketplace/ghe-transition"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/emasoft/ghe-marketplace/ghe-transition/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/emasoft/ghe-marketplace/ghe-transition"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/emasoft/ghe-marketplace/ghe-transition.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 405 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,346 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00405	$0.01346
Opus 5	$0.00202	$0.00673
Sonnet 5	$0.00081	$0.00269
Haiku 4.5	$0.00040	$0.00135

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9691e870dbce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ghe-transition 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 12d 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-transition/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 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.

Every word the user says is a specification - follow verbatim, no errors, no exceptions
Never modify user specs without explicit discussion - if you identify a potential issue, STOP and discuss with the user FIRST
Never take initiative to change specifications - your role is to implement, not to reinterpret
If you see an error in the spec, you MUST:
- Stop immediately
- Explain the potential issue clearly
- Wait for user guidance before proceeding
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:

GitHub Issue Thread - Full report text (NOT just a link!)
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.

Settings Awareness

Respects .claude/ghe.local.md:

enabled: If false, skip transition
enforcement_level: strict (all criteria) / standard (allow override) / lenient (advisory)
serena_sync: If false, skip SERENA memory bank update

GitHub Elements Transition

Purpose: Change phases by closing current thread and opening next. MODIFIES workflow state significantly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 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.

12d ago First seen · 174 lines · 405 tokens per session scan A 9691e870dbce

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ghe-transition is a skill published in the GitHub repository Emasoft/ghe-marketplace (4 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 405 tokens to every session and 1,346 once invoked, about $0.0020 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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