prioritize-issues

prioritize-issues is a skill for Claude Code from jerseycheese/agent-skills. It costs 117 tokens per session (1,285 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A GitHub issue triage tool that reviews open issues and ranks them by user value, effort, age, and roadmap fit. GitHub issues are requests, bug reports, or tasks tracked in a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan upcoming work, prepare a sprint, or decide which bugs and improvements to implement first.
Why use it?
It helps replace a long, unordered backlog with a short list of work that is most worth doing next. It also adds technical detail for the highest-ranked issues.

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 plan upcoming work, prepare a sprint, or decide which bugs and improvements to implement first.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jerseycheese/agent-skills/prioritize-issues
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 prioritize-issues
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,285 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 $0.00117 $0.01285
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00642
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00128

Measured 9d ago against content hash a7b67db8c147, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prioritize-issues 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 9d 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/prioritize-issues/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue Prioritization

1. Discover the repo

If the user didn't specify a repo, infer it:

gh repo view --json nameWithOwner -q .nameWithOwner

2. Fetch all open issues

Pull the full backlog — not just recent issues:

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

If the repo has more than 200 open issues, paginate. Also fetch any recent comments on the top candidates to catch context updates:

gh issue view [NUMBER] --json number,title,body,labels,comments,createdAt,milestone

3. Pre-filter

Skip issues labeled wontfix, duplicate, invalid, or question. Skip closed issues (should be excluded by the list query, but double-check).

4. Score each issue

For each issue, assess these dimensions. You don't need to output the raw scores — use them internally to reason about rank.

Value (0-10)

Factor Points
User-facing bug that breaks functionality +3
User-facing improvement +2
Internal/no user impact +0-1
Unblocks multiple other issues +2
Unblocks one other issue +1
Aligned with active milestone or roadmap goal +2-3
Labels: critical, blocking, P0 +2

Effort (0-10, lower is better)

Factor Points
Major architectural change +4
Touches many files/systems +3
Moderate complexity +2
Simple, well-scoped change +1
Requires extensive E2E + manual testing +3
Unit tests only +1
Breaking changes or migrations +3
Low-risk, isolated change +0-1
Labels: good first issue, small, quick -1 (lower effort)

Age bonus

Issues that have been open longer tend to get pushed down unfairly. Apply a small bonus:

  • Open 2-8 weeks: +0.1
  • Open 2-6 months: +0.3
  • Open 6+ months: +0.5

This is a tiebreaker, not a primary driver. A low-value chore open for a year still loses to a critical bug opened yesterday.

Priority score

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. 9d ago First seen · 175 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A a7b67db8c147

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prioritize-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository jerseycheese/agent-skills (1 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 1,285 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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