to-tickets

to-tickets is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from FradSer/dotclaude. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,392 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of to-tickets, MIT.

A ticket-planning workflow that breaks a plan, specification, or conversation into small vertical slices of work. Each ticket states which other tickets must be completed first.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create issue-tracker tickets from a spec or plan, with each slice covering a narrow part of the finished behavior.
Why use it?
It turns a large piece of work into an ordered set of implementable tasks and makes blocking dependencies visible.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the mattpocock plugin — 46 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create issue-tracker tickets from a spec or plan, with each slice covering a narrow part of the finished behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fradser/dotclaude/to-tickets
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 FradSer/dotclaude --skill to-tickets
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FradSer/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mattpocock, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,392 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 89% 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 5.1 $0.00051 $0.01392
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00557
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00139

Measured 23d ago against content hash c91a115415f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

to-tickets 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 23d 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

89% identical to to-tickets — 25 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.

mattpocock/skills/engineering/to-tickets/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

To Tickets

Break a plan, spec, or conversation into a set of tickets: tracer-bullet vertical slices, each declaring the tickets that block it. If the spec contains Gherkin scenarios (from /mattpocock:bdd), each ticket should map to one or more scenarios; the scenarios are the authoritative acceptance criteria.

The issue tracker and triage label vocabulary should have been provided to you. If not, tell the user to run /mattpocock:setup-matt-pocock-skills.

Process

1. Gather context

Work from whatever is already in the conversation context. If the user passes a reference (a spec path, an issue number or URL) as an argument, fetch it and read its full body and comments.

2. Explore the codebase (optional)

If you have not already explored the codebase, do so to understand the current state of the code. Ticket titles and descriptions should use the project's domain glossary vocabulary, and respect ADRs in the area you're touching.

Look for opportunities to prefactor the code to make the implementation easier. "Make the change easy, then make the easy change."

3. Draft vertical slices

Break the work into tracer bullet tickets.

  • Each slice cuts a narrow but COMPLETE path through every layer (schema, API, UI, tests): vertical, NOT a horizontal slice of one layer
  • A completed slice is demoable or verifiable on its own
  • Each slice is sized to fit in a single fresh context window
  • Any prefactoring should be done first

CRITICAL: Vertical slices only

Each ticket cuts a narrow but COMPLETE path through every layer — schema, API, UI, tests — sized to fit one fresh context window, and demoable on its own. A wide refactor is the exception: sequence it as expand–contract, never force it into a tracer bullet.

Give each ticket its blocking edges: the other tickets that must complete before it can start. A ticket with no blockers can start immediately.

Wide refactors are the exception to vertical slicing. A wide refactor is one mechanical change (rename a column, retype a shared symbol) whose blast radius fans across the whole codebase, so a single edit breaks thousands of call sites at once and no vertical slice can land green. Don't force it into a tracer bullet; sequence it as expand–contract. First expand: add the new form beside the old so nothing breaks. Then migrate the call sites over in batches sized by blast radius (per package, per directory), each batch its own ticket blocked by the expand, keeping CI green batch to batch because the old form still exists. Finally contract: delete the old form once no caller remains, in a ticket blocked by every migrate batch. When even the batches can't stay green alone, keep the sequence but let them share an integration branch that all block a final integrate-and-verify ticket; green is promised only there.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 23d ago First seen · 109 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A c91a115415f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

to-tickets is a skill published in the GitHub repository FradSer/dotclaude (594 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,392 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to to-tickets, differing in 25 lines, and is treated as a copy.