linear-maintenance

linear-maintenance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HugoRCD/evlog. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,054 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A recurring housekeeping workflow for an evlog team's Linear backlog. Linear is a work-tracking tool used for issues, projects, priorities, and labels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to tidy labels, projects, priorities, stale items, completed-but-open issues, and incorrectly filed work through Linear.
Why use it?
It keeps the backlog current by applying changes that can be verified mechanically and separating uncertain decisions for a person to review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to tidy labels, projects, priorities, stale items, completed-but-open issues, and incorrectly filed work through Linear.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hugorcd/evlog/linear-maintenance
About the project

evlog is a TypeScript-first logging and observability project built around wide events and structured errors across runtimes. It is intended to help developers record application behavior and diagnose failures.

HugoRCD/evlog · 1,895 stars · on GitHub · evlog.dev

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 HugoRCD/evlog --skill linear-maintenance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HugoRCD/evlog

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,054 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00089 $0.01054
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00422
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00105

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 677b88dc6648, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

linear-maintenance 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 1mo 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.

apps/evi/agent/skills/linear-maintenance/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Linear maintenance

A regular housekeeping sweep over the evlog team's Linear backlog so it stays readable and current between passes. The goal is a tidy, trustworthy backlog, not a census. Listing every issue is not the point; correcting the drift and flagging what needs a decision is.

Where the other skills draw the line: self-review owns the coherence and reach of the agent's own surface, repo-health-sweep owns the repository and docs, cost-watchdog owns gateway spend. This skill owns Linear housekeeping only, and stops there. When a pass finds evidence that shipped work is now live (a schedule, a skill, a merged PR), the finding belongs to this skill's "close it" bucket, not to building anything.

Two halves, in order

Apply what is mechanically verifiable. These are the unambiguous fixes, and they are the point of the run: the sibling set or the issue history is evidence enough that a write is correct. Apply them directly via linear__save_issue.

Surface what needs a judgement call about intent. Anything you cannot verify, or whose correct value is a matter of taste, stays open and is written down as a finding for Hugo. Never guess a decision that a sibling set or the issue history cannot support.

The lenses

Enumerate the open surface first: linear__list_issues on the evlog team, across states. Then for each item check:

  • Project: every open issue sits in the project its title and content point to, or in Triage if it is genuinely unplaced. An issue whose peers carry a project but it does not is a fix, not a finding.
  • Priority: an item In Progress should carry a priority consistent with its siblings; a Backlog item with no priority next to prioritized peers is inconsistent. A priority change that relies on an estimate of intent is a finding.
  • Label: every open issue carries one of the team's labels. A feature request with no label is a fix. A label that duplicates another, or has a single use, is a hygiene finding.
  • Stale: triage older than several months with no movement, parked next to a canceled sibling, or an investigation that outlived its question, is a finding (close it or kick it to the community).
  • Done but open: an item whose work already shipped in another issue, a schedule, or a merged PR, and is still open, is a close. Only when the shipped evidence is verifiable from the issue history or linked work.
  • Consistency: a true duplicate of a completed or archived sibling, a sub-issue misread as a duplicate, work whose state contradicts its neighbors.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 1mo ago First seen · 85 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 677b88dc6648

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linear-maintenance is a skill published in the GitHub repository HugoRCD/evlog (1,895 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,054 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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