github-issues

A procedure for managing GitHub issues, which are tracked tasks, bugs, or discussions in a repository. It checks the repository and existing issues before creating, editing, labeling, assigning, commenting on, or closing one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect issue state, find related issues, and carry out authorized issue updates with GitHub's gh command-line tool.
Why use it?
It helps avoid duplicate issues and preserves useful evidence such as reproduction details, acceptance criteria, and decisions.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 614 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 $0.00036 $0.00614
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00307
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00061

Measured yesterday against content hash 7b7e55e5bb9b, 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 · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Manage GitHub Issues

Use gh for evidence-backed issue operations. project-backlog owns local issue drafts; this skill owns confirmed remote issue state and authorized mutation.

Workflow

  1. Confirm the target: Resolve the repository from the explicit URL or git remote get-url origin, then state OWNER/REPO. Never infer a different repository from a similarly named checkout.

  2. Refresh current state: Read the issue and relevant neighbors 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 and preserve evidence: Prefer updating an existing issue when it represents the same outcome. Keep reproduction, acceptance criteria, dependencies, decisions, and proof; remove stale activity logs and duplicate checklists.

  4. Check authority: Reading and drafting are safe defaults. Creation, edits, labels, assignments, comments, closure, reopening, locking, transfer, project changes, and deletion are separate remote mutations requiring user authority.

  5. Apply one bounded mutation: Prepare substantial bodies in a temporary file and pass it with --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>
    
  6. Verify from GitHub: Re-read the issue with gh issue view --json ..., compare the intended fields, and report its URL. A successful command alone is not proof of final state.

Boundaries

  • Do not close an issue merely because local code is green; verify the issue's acceptance criteria and requested delivery boundary.
  • Do not assign people, notify them in comments, or alter projects and milestones without explicit coordination authority.
  • Do not create issues from raw review findings until project-backlog has deduplicated and prioritized them.
  • Use plan-execution for implementing an accepted issue and github-pull-request for the resulting PR.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 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 · 43 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 7b7e55e5bb9b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository fmind/dotfiles (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 614 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 2026-08-31.

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