iflow-epic

iflow-epic is a skill for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor from jepegit/issue-flow. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,460 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning workflow for splitting a large change into smaller stages and issue descriptions, then optionally publishing them as GitHub issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning an epic, meaning a large body of related work, that needs staged issues and a central tracking issue.
Why use it?
It gives oversized work a sequence that can be tracked and delivered in manageable pieces.

Skill for Claude CodeCodexCursor

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jepegit/issue-flow/iflow-epic
Any agent
npx skills add jepegit/issue-flow --skill iflow-epic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jepegit/issue-flow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

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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 2,460 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00038 $0.02460
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01230
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00492
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00246

Measured 3d ago against content hash c339cfd776a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

iflow-epic 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 3d 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-epic/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

issue-flow — epic planning (/iflow-epic)

Follow this skill to plan a change that is too large for one issue: divide it into sequential stages, each stage into manageable issues that flow through the normal lifecycle (/iflow-init/iflow-plan/iflow-build/iflow-close).

The surface has two actions. Drafting (the default) is write-free on GitHub: its deliverable is .issueflows/05-epics/epic<N>_plan.md, and it never creates GitHub issues, labels, or milestones. publish is the single exception — it turns a confirmed plan into real GitHub issues, stage by stage, behind one consolidated confirm.

Input

  • <N> — the GitHub issue number of the epic anchor (an umbrella issue describing the large change). Required: an epic without an anchor has nowhere to track progress. If no anchor issue exists yet, stop and point the user at /iflow-issue epic <intent> (creates the anchor with an Epic: title and the epic label when present) — then re-run /iflow-epic <N> with the new number.
  • publish [stage <k>] — run the publish action (below) instead of drafting. Without a stage number, the earliest stage with unpublished specs is chosen.
  • Optional free text — extra context, constraints, or a proposed stage split to seed the draft.

Invoke: type iflow epic in chat, or /iflow-epic from the slash menu (iflow-epic also works).

MODEL & EXECUTION DIRECTIVE

Profile: reasoning — Prioritize deep thinking and careful trade-offs over speed or token economy.

In Cursor: switch to a thinking-capable model before invoking this step (not Auto-only).

Keep scope tight to what this step requires.

Resolve project root (multi-root workspaces)

Before any git, gh, or .issueflows/ path operation in this workflow:

Resolution order (stop when unambiguous):

  1. Explicit hints in slash input — root:<path>, repo:<folder-basename> (directory name, e.g. cellpy-core), or repo:owner/name.
  2. CLI fast pathissue-flow agent resolve [-C <start>] [--from-file <active-file>] [--json]. Use the returned project_root and repo; pass -C <project_root> to other issue-flow agent … subcommands. When the answer came from the workspace registry, the payload sets resolved_via_workspace_default: true.
  3. Branch context — exactly one workspace repo whose branch matches ^\d+- → that root.
  4. Single scaffold — exactly one .issueflows/ tree visible in the workspace → that root.
  5. Workspace default — an issueflow-workspace.toml at the workspace root (created with issue-flow workspace init) may name a default member repo; use it when no scaffold matched above. Tell the user the default was used.
  6. Ambiguousstop and ask; never guess between sibling repos.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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. 3d ago First seen · 142 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A c339cfd776a2

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iflow-epic is a skill published in the GitHub repository jepegit/issue-flow (4 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,460 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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