set-up-the-issue-tracker

A setup guide for configuring a repository's issue tracker, triage labels, and documentation locations. An issue tracker is where a team records and manages work such as bugs and feature requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it once when preparing a repository for engineering workflows that depend on GitHub or local Markdown issues, triage labels, context documents, and architecture decision records.
Why use it?
It prepares the repository for related engineering skills by recording where issues and project context live and which labels they should use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the claude-code-engineering plugin — 47 skills, 1 command, 8 agents, 1 hook 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/everywan-dev/claude-code-engineering/set-up-the-issue-tracker
Any agent
npx skills add everywan-dev/claude-code-engineering --skill set-up-the-issue-tracker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/everywan-dev/claude-code-engineering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-code-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 1 command, 8 agents, 1 hook.

Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,780 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00043 $0.01780
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00890
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00356
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00178

Measured 2d ago against content hash 33d3c1c3d3e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

set-up-the-issue-tracker 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to setup-matt-pocock-skills — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/set-up-the-issue-tracker/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Set up the issue tracker

Scaffold the per-repo configuration that the engineering skills assume:

  • Issue tracker: where issues live (GitHub by default; local markdown is also supported out of the box)
  • Triage labels: the strings used for the five canonical triage roles
  • Domain docs: where CONTEXT.md and ADRs live, and the consumer rules for reading them

This is a prompt-driven skill, not a deterministic script. Explore, present what you found, confirm with the user, then write.

Process

1. Explore

Look at the current repo to understand its starting state. Read whatever exists; don't assume:

  • git remote -v and .git/config: is this a GitHub repo? Which one?
  • AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md at the repo root: does either exist? Is there already an ## Agent skills section in either?
  • CONTEXT.md and CONTEXT-MAP.md at the repo root
  • docs/adr/ and any src/*/docs/adr/ directories
  • docs/agents/: does this skill's prior output already exist?
  • .scratch/: a sign that a local-markdown issue tracker convention is already in use
  • Is the triage skill installed? (a triage skill folder alongside this one, or triage in your available skills.) This decides whether Section B runs at all.
  • Monorepo signals: a pnpm-workspace.yaml, a workspaces field in package.json, or a populated packages/* with its own src/. These are present only in a genuinely large multi-package repo; their absence means single-context, which is almost every repo.

2. Present findings and ask

Summarise what's present and what's missing. Then take the sections in order. One section, one answer, then the next.

Lead each section with the recommended answer so the user can accept it in a word. Give a one-line explainer only when the choice genuinely branches; skip the section entirely when exploration already settled it (Section B when triage isn't installed, Section C when there's no monorepo).

Section A: Issue tracker.

Explainer: The "issue tracker" is where issues live for this repo. Skills like to-tickets, triage, and to-spec read from and write to it. They need to know whether to call gh issue create, write a markdown file under .scratch/, or follow some other workflow you describe. Pick the place you actually track work for this repo.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 121 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 33d3c1c3d3e0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

set-up-the-issue-tracker is a skill published in the GitHub repository everywan-dev/claude-code-engineering (2 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,780 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to setup-matt-pocock-skills, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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