to-issues

to-issues is a skill for Claude Code from HigorAlves/orc. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,448 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of to-tickets, MIT.

A method for turning a plan, specification, or product requirements document into independent tracker issues. Each issue covers a complete path through the relevant parts of the system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create implementation tickets with clear dependencies from a plan, specification, or PRD.
Why use it?
It prevents work from being split into isolated technical layers that cannot be tested or demonstrated on their own.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the orc plugin — 80 skills, 30 commands, 14 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create implementation tickets with clear dependencies from a plan, specification, or PRD.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/higoralves/orc/to-issues
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 HigorAlves/orc --skill to-issues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HigorAlves/orc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install orc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 80 skills, 30 commands, 14 agents, 5 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,448 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 86% 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 $0.00038 $0.01448
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00724
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00290
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00145

Measured 4d ago against content hash e37758abe71d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

to-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 4d 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

86% identical to to-tickets — 114 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.

orc/skills/to-issues/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

To Issues

Break a plan, spec, or conversation into a set of independently-grabbable issues — tracer-bullet vertical slices, each declaring the issues that block it.

The issue tracker and triage label vocabulary should have been provided to you — run /orc:setup if not.

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. Issue 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 issues.

  • 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

Slices may be HITL or AFK. HITL slices require human interaction, such as an architectural decision or a design review. AFK slices can be implemented and merged without human interaction. Prefer AFK over HITL where possible.

Give each issue its blocking edges — the other issues that must complete before it can start. An issue 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 issue 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 an issue 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 issue — green is promised only there.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 4d ago First seen · 120 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A e37758abe71d

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to-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository HigorAlves/orc (6 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,448 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to to-tickets, differing in 114 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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