iflow-issue

A workflow step that drafts and creates one well-defined GitHub issue, GitHub’s unit of tracked work, with an optional branch and setup process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a normal issue, create an epic starting point for larger work, and optionally prepare its branch and local issue record.
Why use it?
It turns a rough request into one focused, actionable piece of work instead of an unclear or oversized task.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,671 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 $0.00029 $0.01671
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00835
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00334
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00167

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5e5820549506, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

iflow-issue 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-issue/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

issue-flow — create a normal issue (/iflow-issue)

Follow this skill to author and create one well-specified GitHub issue (a single deliverable), then optionally set up the normal lifecycle (branch + /iflow-init → hand off to /iflow-plan).

Do not use this skill from /iflow, /iflow-build, or /iflow-close. /iflow-issue is explicit-only because it creates GitHub issues (and optionally branches).

Coexists with:

  • /iflow-pick fix — one-shot general-fixes chore bucket into plan/start.
  • /iflow-fix — iterative small-fixes session that stays in a loop.
  • /iflow-epic — staged multi-issue work; use /iflow-issue first when the epic anchor does not exist yet.
  • /iflow-split — cut an existing over-large issue into linked children. Do not use /iflow-issue for that.

Input

  • free text — seed for the issue title and/or short description (e.g. iflow issue add dry-run flag to doctor).
  • epic (alone or as a leading token, e.g. epic Large rewrite) — epic-anchor mode: title prefixed with Epic:, and apply the epic label when it exists (gh label list).
  • (nothing) — ask for a one-line intent before drafting.

Invoke: type iflow issue in chat, or /iflow-issue from the slash menu (iflow-issue 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 · 101 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 · 101 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 5e5820549506

Subscribe to this mod's changes

iflow-issue is a skill published in the GitHub repository jepegit/issue-flow (4 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,671 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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