issue-maintenance

issue-maintenance is a skill for Claude Code from jerseycheese/agent-skills. It costs 277 tokens per session (4,944 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A maintenance process for a repository's open GitHub issues, which are tracked reports and requests. It reviews labels, priority, issue text, and whether bugs have enough information to reproduce.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to triage issues, correct labels, re-score priorities, and prepare one issue for development.
Why use it?
It keeps an issue backlog organised and identifies which issues are ready for implementation without changing source code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the workflow-skills plugin — 31 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to triage issues, correct labels, re-score priorities, and prepare one issue for development.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jerseycheese/agent-skills/issue-maintenance
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 jerseycheese/agent-skills --skill issue-maintenance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jerseycheese/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install workflow-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 277 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,944 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 $0.00277 $0.04944
Opus 5 $0.00138 $0.02472
Sonnet 5 $0.00055 $0.00989
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00494

Measured 8d ago against content hash c9be1f2a77e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-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 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.

skills/issue-maintenance/SKILL.md · 309 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 309 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue Maintenance

prioritize-issues reports; analyze-issue specs out one issue for implementation. This skill maintains — it mutates the backlog: labels, priority, and issue text. Four passes, one report.

0. Prerequisites

  • gh authenticated for the target repo. If gh isn't installed (some hosted/cloud sessions), every step below has a GitHub MCP equivalent (mcp__github__list_issues, issue_read, issue_write, get_label) — same data, different transport. Say which you used in the report.
  • No repo clone. Everything here is issue metadata (title, body, comments, labels) via gh issue — skip the mktemp -d / gh repo clone step entirely, unlike code-health-audit's and plain-language-audit's scheduled pattern. This skill never touches source files. The one exception is the label-convention doc in §4b, which is a single API file read, not a clone.

1. Discover the repo

gh repo view --json nameWithOwner -q .nameWithOwner   # if not specified

2. Fetch the backlog and the real label set

gh issue list --state open --limit 200 --json number,title,labels,createdAt,updatedAt,body,milestone,comments
gh label list

Paginate past 200. Cache the label list — every --add-label below must come from it verbatim. Never invent a label. If a label this workflow wants (needs-repro, needs-info, duplicate, any priority:*) doesn't exist in this repo, skip that operation for the whole run and say so once in the report ("not configured in this repo") — don't repeat the note per issue.

2b. Establish how this repo types its issues

Pass 2 groups label coverage by issue type, so the run needs to know what a "type" is here before it can group anything. Two mechanisms exist and repos use one or the other:

  • GitHub native issue types (Bug / Feature / Task and custom ones). There is no gh issue type subcommand — since gh 2.94.0 issue types ride on the ordinary commands (--type on create/edit, a type field on list/view), and before that they were reachable only through the API. Detect them with gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/issue-types or mcp__github__list_issue_types. A 404 means this repo has none, which is the ordinary answer for a personal-account repo — issue types are configured at organization level. If the repo does have them, that is the typing mechanism: fetch the type per issue in the §2 bulk call.
  • A type label conventionepic, bug, enhancement, user-story, documentation, and so on. The convention doc from §4b usually names these outright (Narraitor's .github/labels.md has a ## Type Labels section listing exactly six). Use that list as the type mapping rather than inventing one from whatever labels happen to look type-ish.

Read the full file on GitHub · 309 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. 8d ago First seen · 309 lines · 277 tokens per session scan A c9be1f2a77e4

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issue-maintenance is a skill published in the GitHub repository jerseycheese/agent-skills (1 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 277 tokens to every session and 4,944 once invoked, about $0.0014 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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