github-issues

A guide for creating and managing GitHub issues, which are tracked records of bugs, requests, and work items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or update bug reports and feature requests, search and read issues, manage labels and assignments, and work with GitHub project items.
Why use it?
It keeps issue details, labels, ownership, dates, and links organised through the repository's supported workflow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/jimmypaolini/codebase/github-issues
Any agent
npx skills add JimmyPaolini/codebase --skill github-issues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JimmyPaolini/codebase

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,003 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00141 $0.02003
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01001
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00200

Measured today against content hash 3143f6431a5a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-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 today.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to github-issues — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/github-issues/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Issues

Manage GitHub issues using the @modelcontextprotocol/server-github MCP server.

Available Tools

MCP Tools (read operations)

Tool Purpose
mcp__github__issue_read Read issue details, sub-issues, comments, labels (methods: get, get_comments, get_sub_issues, get_labels)
mcp__github__list_issues List and filter repository issues by state, labels, date
mcp__github__search_issues Search issues across repos using GitHub search syntax
mcp__github__projects_list List projects, project fields, project items, status updates
mcp__github__projects_get Get details of a project, field, item, or status update
mcp__github__projects_write Add/update/delete project items, create status updates

CLI / REST API (write operations)

The MCP server does not currently support creating, updating, or commenting on issues. Use gh api for these operations.

Operation Command
Create issue gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues -X POST -f title=... -f body=...
Update issue gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{number} -X PATCH -f title=... -f state=...
Add comment gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{number}/comments -X POST -f body=...
Close issue gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{number} -X PATCH -f state=closed
Set issue type Include -f type=Bug in the create call (REST API only, not supported by gh issue create CLI)

Note: gh issue create works for basic issue creation but does not support the --type flag. Use gh api when you need to set issue types.

Workflow

  1. Determine action: Create, update, or query?
  2. Gather context: Get repo info, existing labels, milestones if needed
  3. Structure content: Use appropriate template from references/templates.md
  4. Execute: Use MCP tools for reads, gh api for writes
  5. Confirm: Report the issue URL to user

Creating Issues

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. today First seen · 203 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A 3143f6431a5a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository JimmyPaolini/codebase (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 2,003 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to github-issues, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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