iflow-init

A workflow step that saves one GitHub issue as a local Markdown file and marks other current issues as done when appropriate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start work from a GitHub issue and maintain the project’s local issue records.
Why use it?
It keeps the issue being worked on and older completed issues organised in the repository.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,029 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 $0.00026 $0.02029
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01014
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00406
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00203

Measured 2d ago against content hash 11bf404552ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

iflow-init 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 2d 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-init/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

issue-flow — issue init (/iflow-init)

Follow this skill to capture a GitHub issue locally under .issueflows/01-current-issues/.

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

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 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.

After resolution, treat the result as <project_root> and <owner/repo>:

  • Git: git -C <project_root> … (or issue-flow agent … -C <project_root> for supported ops).
  • GitHub: pass an explicit repo on every gh call — never rely on gh's implicit cwd default. For most commands use --repo <owner/repo>; exception: gh repo view takes the repo as a positional arg (gh repo view <owner/repo> …) and rejects --repo.
  • Paths: all .issueflows/… paths are under <project_root>.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 2d ago First seen · 111 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 11bf404552ec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

iflow-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository jepegit/issue-flow (4 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 2,029 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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