github-issues

github-issues is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fmind/dot. It costs 41 tokens per session (683 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for managing GitHub issues, which are tracked discussions for bugs, tasks, and requests, from the command line.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect, create, edit, label, comment on, assign, or close GitHub issues after checking their current state.
Why use it?
It helps confirm the right repository, find duplicate issues, preserve useful evidence, and make only the authorised change.

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/fmind/dot/github-issues
Any agent
npx skills add fmind/dot --skill github-issues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fmind/dot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for github-issues

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fmind/dot/github-issues.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/fmind/dot/github-issues)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fmind/dot/github-issues"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fmind/dot/github-issues.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 683 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 $0.00041 $0.00683
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00342
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00068

Measured yesterday against content hash 75b2ebf75632, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-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.

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

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Issues

Read and mutate GitHub issues with gh from verified remote state; project-backlog owns local issue drafts and prioritization.

Workflow

  1. Confirm the target: resolve the repository from the explicit URL or git remote get-url origin and state OWNER/REPO; never infer another repository from a similarly named checkout.

  2. Refresh current state before proposing a change:

    gh issue view <number> -R <owner>/<repo> --json number,title,body,state,stateReason,labels,assignees,milestone,comments,url
    gh issue list -R <owner>/<repo> --state all --search '<distinct terms>' --json number,title,state,url
    
  3. Deduplicate: update the existing issue that represents the same outcome; keep reproduction, acceptance criteria, dependencies, decisions, and proof; drop stale logs and duplicate checklists.

  4. Apply one bounded mutation the user authorized. Write substantial bodies to a temporary file and pass --body-file; avoid shell interpolation and interactive prompts:

    gh issue create -R <owner>/<repo> --title '<title>' --body-file <body-file>
    gh issue edit <number> -R <owner>/<repo> --body-file <body-file>
    
  5. Verify from GitHub: re-read with gh issue view --json ..., compare the intended fields, and report the URL; a zero exit code alone is not proof of final state.

Gotchas

  • Green is not closed: verify the issue's acceptance criteria and requested delivery boundary before gh issue close; local passing code is not delivery.
  • People and planning fields: assignments, comment notifications, milestones, and project changes are coordination acts; make them only when the request names them.
  • Raw findings: route review findings through project-backlog before creating issues from them.

Official Skills

Upstream: cli/cli. List the current release, then install what the task needs at project scope after reviewing the snapshot (see agent-skills):

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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. yesterday First seen · 55 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 75b2ebf75632

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository fmind/dot (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 683 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.