assign

assign is a skill for Claude Code from happy-nut/claude-plugin-viban. It costs 12 tokens per session (1,245 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backlog workflow that selects the first issue and carries it through clarification, implementation, testing, and review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to take the next prioritized issue, resolve unclear requirements, write the fix and tests, and prepare the result for review.
Why use it?
It turns an issue description into a completed, verified change without leaving the steps to be coordinated manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is for path in "./CLAUDE.md" "./.claude/CLAUDE.md" "../CLAUDE.md"; do.

Part of the viban plugin — 7 skills, 7 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to take the next prioritized issue, resolve unclear requirements, write the fix and tests, and prepare the result for review.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/happy-nut/claude-plugin-viban
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/happy-nut/claude-plugin-viban/assign

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install viban, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 7 commands, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,245 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 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 5.1 $0.00012 $0.01245
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00622
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00125

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4e12e9bb33cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assign 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 8d 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.

skills/assign/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/assign

Assign the first backlog issue and execute the full resolution workflow. If the description is unclear, interview the user first.

CLI only (no direct viban.json access)


Output Rules

  • Do NOT output any preamble. No "Your Task:", "I'll now...", "Let me...", or task summaries before starting work.
  • NEVER delegate work back to the user. You must complete the entire issue yourself — writing code, tests, and verifying. Phrases like "Your Task:", "TODO(human)", "Waiting for your implementation", "Take your time", or any message that asks the user to write code are strictly FORBIDDEN. If you encounter a TODO comment, implement it yourself.
  • Start executing Step 0 immediately and silently.

Step 0: Read Workflow (CRITICAL)

Check in priority order — first match wins:

  1. .viban/workflow.md[ -f ".viban/workflow.md" ] && cat ".viban/workflow.md"
  2. CLAUDE.md (legacy, only if no workflow.md):
for path in "./CLAUDE.md" "./.claude/CLAUDE.md" "../CLAUDE.md"; do
    [ -f "$path" ] && cat "$path"
done

Look for Issue Resolution Workflow or Workflow section.

If a workflow exists, follow it exactly — its pipeline, conventions, and stop points override the defaults below.


Step 1: Assign

ISSUE_ID=$(viban assign 2>&1 | tail -1)
[[ -z "$ISSUE_ID" || "$ISSUE_ID" == "No backlog" ]] && echo "No issues in backlog" && exit 0

If backlog is empty: notify user and exit.

Step 2: Read Issue

viban get $ISSUE_ID

Display the issue title, description, priority, and type to the user.

Step 3: Evaluate Clarity → Proceed Immediately

Assess whether the issue description provides enough context to start working.

  • Clearproceed directly to Step 4. Do NOT ask the user for confirmation. Do NOT ask "should I start?". Just start.
  • Unclear → interview the user with AskUserQuestion to gather missing context, then proceed to Step 4 immediately.

Step 4: Locate Worktree

viban assign automatically creates a worktree. Locate it:

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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. 8d ago First seen · 152 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 4e12e9bb33cf

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assign is a skill published in the GitHub repository happy-nut/claude-plugin-viban (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,245 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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