compose-tickets

compose-tickets is a skill for Claude Code from johardi/claude-stack. It costs 118 tokens per session (2,359 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning workflow for turning a large feature or refactor into a parent GitHub issue with linked smaller tickets. GitHub issues are records used to plan and track development work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess whether work should be split, draft the parent and child issue bodies, and file them after the required confirmations.
Why use it?
It makes work that spans several modules easier to sequence, review, and execute than one oversized task.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the cstack-collab plugin — 5 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess whether work should be split, draft the parent and child issue bodies, and file them after the required confirmations.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add johardi/claude-stack
Claude Code
/plugin install cstack-collab

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cstack-collab, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 3 hooks.

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Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,359 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 $0.00118 $0.02359
Opus 5.5 $0.00047 $0.00944
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00236

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0837157eaa0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compose-tickets 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 1mo 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.

plugins/cstack-collab/skills/compose-tickets/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Compose Tickets

Walk a planning conversation toward a structured parent GitHub issue plus linked sub-tickets, in a format that the orchestrate-tickets skill can execute directly. Companion to orchestrate-tickets: this skill composes the score, that skill performs it. Two confirmation gates: one before drafting bodies, one before filing.

When to Use

Use when:

  • The user is describing a new feature, refactor, or initiative and the discussion reveals it touches multiple modules or has natural sequencing.
  • The work would produce a PR too large to review as one unit.
  • The user explicitly asks to "break this down", "split into tickets", "draft sub-tickets", or "open a parent issue with children".

Skip when:

  • The work is a single small PR — recommend the github-issue-workflow skill and stop.
  • The user wants to implement immediately without filing tickets — also github-issue-workflow.

Prerequisites

  • gh auth status — GitHub CLI authenticated.
  • git rev-parse --git-dir — inside a git repository (so gh issue targets the right repo).

If either check fails, stop and surface the error. Do not auto-fix authentication.

Workflow

Phase 1 — Understand the feature

Listen to the user's description. Ask only the clarifying questions that materially change scope or decomposition. Avoid 20-questions interrogation. Use AskUserQuestion only when a missing detail would change the slicing.

Examples of questions that justify asking:

  • "Is this a one-off migration or a recurring capability?"
  • "Should X be configurable per project, or global?"
  • "Does this need a database migration?"

Examples of questions that do NOT justify asking (decide silently or surface as assumption):

  • styling preferences
  • exact field names
  • naming of internal helpers

Phase 2 — Optional codebase exploration

If the description names files, modules, or systems, optionally spawn one Agent of subtype Explore (thoroughness: "medium") to:

  • Confirm which modules/files are actually touched.
  • Surface existing functions and utilities that should be reused (avoid proposing duplicate code).
  • Identify any data-model or schema dependencies between proposed slices.

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 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. 1mo ago First seen · 219 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 0837157eaa0c

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compose-tickets is a skill published in the GitHub repository johardi/claude-stack (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 2,359 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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