issue-flow: Skill for Claude Code

.cursor/skills/iflow/SKILL.md

iflow is a skill for Claude Code, Cursor from jepegit/issue-flow. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,986 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automatic guide for moving a software issue through defined steps, such as starting, planning, building, and closing it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose and run the next step in an issue workflow, while passing along any extra instructions.
Why use it?
It removes the need to remember which issue-flow command should come next based on the issue's current state.

Skill for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also installed under .cursor/.

This is jepegit/issue-flow's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Cursor how to work on issue-flow itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything issue-flow configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jepegit/issue-flow. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jepegit/issue-flow/main/.cursor/skills/iflow/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jepegit/issue-flow

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,986 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 $0.00041 $0.01986
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00794
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00199

Measured 8d ago against content hash ee4682d3b095, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

iflow 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.

.cursor/skills/iflow/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

issue-flow — iflow smart dispatcher (/iflow)

Run the right next step: detect state and route to /iflow-pick <N> (capture), /iflow-plan, /iflow-build, or /iflow-close, forwarding trailing args verbatim. Every other command runs only when the user types it.

Invoke: type iflow in chat, or /iflow from the slash menu.

MODEL & EXECUTION DIRECTIVE

Profile: economy — Prioritize speed and token economy over deep reasoning.

In Cursor: use Auto or a fast model before invoking this step.

Keep scope tight to what this step requires.

Resolve the project root first

Before any git, gh, or .issueflows/ operation, settle <project_root> and <owner/repo>, stopping at the first unambiguous answer: explicit root:<path> / repo:<name> hints; issue-flow agent resolve [--json]; the one workspace repo on a ^\d+- branch; the one .issueflows/ scaffold in view; the issueflow-workspace.toml default (say you used it). Still ambiguous → stop and ask. Then use git -C <project_root> (or issue-flow agent … -C <project_root>) and pass --repo <owner/repo> to every gh call (gh repo view takes the repo positionally).

Instructions

CLI fast path (optional). If the issue-flow CLI is on PATH, run issue-flow agent state --json to resolve the focus issue, its lifecycle stage, the suggested next_command, and (when there is no focus) epic_hint / epic_session in one deterministic step (covers instructions 1–2), then dispatch — or stop for the epic gap. The CLI is optional: if it is not installed or it errors, fall back to the manual instructions below.

  1. Resolve the focus issue number N.
    • Prefer issue-flow agent state --json when the CLI is on PATH (fields focus, next_command, epic_hint, epic_session, cli_version, skills_version, version_drift).
    • Version drift. If the payload reports version_drift: true, print one warning line before anything else — skills stamped <skills_version>, CLI <cli_version> — run issue-flow update`` — and keep going with the dispatch. Stale skill text is how a newer CLI ends up driven by old instructions; the warning is the fix, not a stop. Leave running issue-flow update to the user.
    • Manual fallback: git branch --show-current. If it matches ^(\d+)-.+, the leading digits are the authoritative N.
    • List issue<n>_* groups in .issueflows/01-current-issues/, and also check .issueflows/02-partly-solved-issues/ and .issueflows/03-solved-issues/ for archived groups matching N.
    • Pick N by precedence:
      1. Branch-derived N wins, regardless of whether a group for N exists in 01-current-issues/. State A will apply when no issue<N>_* files are present yet. If issue<N>_* is archived under 02-partly-solved-issues/ or 03-solved-issues/, warn the user that capture's archived-issue guard will ask for an explicit confirmation before re-opening.
      2. No branch-derived N, exactly one group exists in 01-current-issues/ → use it.
      3. No branch-derived N, no groups at all → epic gap check (step 1a), else state A.
      4. No branch-derived N, multiple groups → stop and ask.

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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.

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iflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository jepegit/issue-flow (4 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,986 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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