github-issues-labels

github-issues-labels is a skill for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor from JoakimCarlsson/bastion. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,062 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for managing GitHub issues, which are shared records of coding tasks and bugs, plus their labels for sorting work. It uses the GitHub command-line tool to create, edit, organize, and triage them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating issue descriptions, defining acceptance checks, adding labels, triaging work, and organizing feature plans into GitHub tasks.
Why use it?
It makes development tasks specific, testable, and understandable instead of leaving requirements scattered or vague. Its conventions also keep each issue tied to a runnable state.

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/joakimcarlsson/bastion/github-issues-labels
Any agent
npx skills add JoakimCarlsson/bastion --skill github-issues-labels
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JoakimCarlsson/bastion

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,062 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 $0.00074 $0.01062
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00531
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00106

Measured 4d ago against content hash 36f5e4a9c790, 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-labels 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 4d 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/github-issues-labels/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Issues and Labels

Tools

Use gh for GitHub (issues, labels, milestones, PRs). Use git only for local repo operations. Do not use the web UI for bulk or scripted tasks unless the user asks.


Core Principles

Every issue must leave the codebase in a runnable state

  • Never split work so the project is broken mid-series. Each issue is self-contained or extends something already working.
  • Always include How to verify (runnable) ÔÇö exact local steps before opening a PR.
  • Acceptance criteria must be binary (done or not done).

Every issue must explain why, not just what

  1. Why ÔÇö motivation, user story, constraint
  2. What ÔÇö precise scope
  3. How ÔÇö design decisions, edge cases, contracts
  4. Done when ÔÇö runnable verification before PR

Issue Body Template

## Why / Context

## What needs to happen

## How it should work

## Acceptance criteria
- [ ] Specific, binary, testable criterion

## How to verify (runnable)

## Dependencies / notes

Labels

Every issue gets at least one label. One value per axis when that axis carries signal.

prefix/value axes

Prefix Vocabulary Question
kind/ closed Type of work
priority/ closed Urgency + timeframe
triage/ closed Triage state
lifecycle/ closed Active vs stale
area/ open ÔÇö from this codebase Subsystem
sig/ or team/ open ÔÇö from org Owner team

kind/: kind/bug, kind/feature, kind/cleanup, kind/refactor, kind/documentation, kind/security, etc. Use kind/feature ÔÇö never bare enhancement.

priority/: priority/critical-urgent, priority/important-soon, priority/important-longterm, priority/backlog, priority/awaiting-more-evidence. Never bare high/medium/low.

triage/: triage/accepted, triage/needs-information, etc.

area/: derive from directory/module boundaries in this repo ÔÇö never copy from another project.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 4d ago First seen · 133 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 36f5e4a9c790

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github-issues-labels is a skill published in the GitHub repository JoakimCarlsson/bastion (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,062 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.

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