issue-tracker

A workflow for filing, updating, and closing GitHub issues, including one main issue with smaller related issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or manage issue groups, update statuses, attach sub-issues, and refresh an epic checklist.
Why use it?
It prevents duplicate issues and keeps the main issue's checklist matched to its related work.

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/jl-cmd/claude-dev-env/issue-tracker
Any agent
npx skills add jl-cmd/claude-dev-env --skill issue-tracker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jl-cmd/claude-dev-env

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,159 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 $0.00084 $0.01159
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00580
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00116

Measured 2d ago against content hash fd6246e7b7d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-tracker 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.

packages/claude-dev-env/.agents/skills/issue-tracker/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue tracker

User wants an issue action done. Here is how those actions work.

dedup -> do the work -> markers only -> numbers + URLs

Run every step the ask needs in one go (file, label, attach, refresh, and so on). The issue-tracker agent is the primary handler for one action per turn; this skill is the session path when the agent is unavailable or the ask spans several steps.

Prefer the same warm issue-tracker agent for follow-ups on the same issue or a related issue on the same epic. Spawn a new agent only for an unrelated work-stream or when the warm agent is gone.

Voice

Use the plain-brief output style (output-styles/plain-brief.md). End with the issue number(s) and URL(s) the caller must keep.

Gotchas

Append a bullet when an action fails in a new way.

  • Use REST .id, not display #N, to attach a sub-issue - operation-matrix.
  • gh attach: -F sub_issue_id=<n> (typed int), never -f.
  • Status goes in markers, not comments - comments are cross-links only.
  • Dedup open and closed; closed twin -> reopen vs file new, never silent refile.
  • Edit only between markers - free-form epic edits break the children checklist.
  • Auto-close is PR-body-first: a related-only UI link does not close the issue on merge.

The model

One epic issue owns a work-stream. Each unit of work is a native GitHub sub-issue under it. The epic checklist and every status block live inside marker pairs. Skeletons and refresh steps: reference/epic-and-sub-issue-model.md.

Labels

  • Parent: epic.
  • Sub-issue: type: roadblock, type: task, type: bug, or type: enhancement.

Create a missing label, then apply it. Label create is in the operation matrix.

Markers

  • Status (any issue): <!-- issue-tracker:status --><!-- /issue-tracker:status -->
  • Children checklist (epic only): <!-- issue-tracker:children --><!-- /issue-tracker:children -->

Update path: read body -> replace only the text between the target pair -> write the full body back.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 2d ago First seen · 93 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A fd6246e7b7d3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

issue-tracker is a skill published in the GitHub repository jl-cmd/claude-dev-env (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,159 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.