github-issues

A skill for managing GitHub issues, which are tracked work items in a repository. It supports creating, editing, labeling, bulk filing, and recording blocked-by dependencies between issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Filing individual or multiple GitHub issues, adding labels, editing issue bodies, and connecting work items that cannot start until others finish.
Why use it?
It keeps issue details and dependencies consistent, including in repositories where dependency information must be recorded in the issue text.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,497 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 $0.00062 $0.01497
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00749
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00150

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2f95108eef47, 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 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.

.claude/skills/github-issues/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert at managing GitHub issues for the Gru project. Follow these conventions exactly.

Creating Issues

Use gh issue create with a heredoc body:

gh issue create --title "Clear, specific title" --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
## Description
What this issue addresses.

## Acceptance Criteria
- [ ] Criterion 1
- [ ] Criterion 2

**Blocked by:** #X, #Y
EOF
)"
  • Keep titles concise and actionable
  • Include acceptance criteria when possible
  • Add **Blocked by:** #X, #Y in the body if the issue has dependencies (see Dependencies below)
  • Add labels with --label "gru:todo" or other appropriate labels

Dependencies (CRITICAL)

Gru uses a two-layer dependency system. Always set dependencies both ways:

Layer 1: Body text (ALWAYS do this — works everywhere including GHES)

Include **Blocked by:** #X, #Y in the issue body. This must be:

  • On a single line (only the first line after the marker is parsed)
  • Using # prefix for issue numbers (bare numbers are ignored)
  • Same-repo only (cross-repo references like owner/repo#123 are skipped)

When editing an existing issue to add blockers, prepend the line to the body:

# Get current body, prepend blocked-by line
CURRENT_BODY=$(gh issue view 123 --json body --jq .body)
gh issue edit 123 --body "**Blocked by:** #10, #20

$CURRENT_BODY"

Layer 2: Native GitHub Dependencies REST API (always attempt after body text)

The native API requires the blocker's internal id (not the issue number):

# 1. Get the internal id of the blocking issue
BLOCKER_ID=$(gh api /repos/OWNER/REPO/issues/BLOCKER_NUMBER --jq .id)

# 2. Set the dependency: BLOCKED_ISSUE is blocked by BLOCKER
gh api /repos/OWNER/REPO/issues/BLOCKED_NUMBER/dependencies/blocked_by \
  -f issue_id="$BLOCKER_ID"

Error handling for native API

After each gh api POST, check the exit status:

  • 404 / "Not Found": GHES without native dependency support — log a warning and continue. Body-text **Blocked by:** is the universal fallback.
  • Other errors (422, 500, etc.): Surface the error to the user so dependency setting doesn't silently fail.

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. 2d ago First seen · 175 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 2f95108eef47

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository fotoetienne/gru (11 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,497 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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