issue-burndown

issue-burndown is a skill for Claude Code from jschulte/claude-plugins. It costs 63 tokens per session (2,508 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for handling a large set of open GitHub issues by checking their status, grouping related work, and creating batches of fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inventory a backlog, triage issues, plan shared fixes, create pull requests, review them, and merge the batches.
Why use it?
It avoids fixing issues that are duplicates, already solved, covered by another PR, or waiting for a decision.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the pr-workflow plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps inventory a backlog, triage issues, plan shared fixes, create pull requests, review them, and merge the batches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jschulte/claude-plugins/issue-burndown
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 jschulte/claude-plugins --skill issue-burndown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jschulte/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pr-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,508 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 $0.00063 $0.02508
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.01003
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00502
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00251

Measured 24d ago against content hash d382034a1623, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-burndown 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 24d 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.

pr-workflow/skills/issue-burndown/SKILL.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue Burndown

End-to-end pipeline: inventory the backlog → map claims → group by shared fix → plan per batch → one fixer subagent per batch → PR per batch → adversarial review → merge to the integration branch. The backlog is a claims problem before it is a fix problem: in a busy repo a large slice of "open" issues are already fixed, claimed by an open PR, duplicates, or waiting on a human decision. Fixing before mapping wastes agent-runs and collides with in-flight work.

Repo conventions override this skill. Phase 0 exists to find them.

When NOT to use

  • One or two issues → just fix them (deliver-me takes a single issue end to end).
  • The user wants analysis only → stop after Phase 2 and report; the disposition table and batch table ARE the deliverable.

Phase 0 — Read the repo's own rules first

Read before counting anything: the project's agent instructions (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md), any issue-state / tracker conventions doc, any production-readiness or audit ledger, and any repo-local sweep or definition-of-done skill — its rules on guards, exit codes, concurrency and worktree hygiene apply here. Also re-read active handoff notes: other sessions may own issue ranges right now.

Phase 1 — Inventory and claim map

gh issue list --state open --limit 300 --json number,title,labels,createdAt,body
gh pr list --state open --limit 100 --json number,title,body,baseRefName,isDraft
gh pr list --state merged --limit 60 --json number,title,body,mergedAt --search "merged:>=<last release date>"

Claims live in narrative prose, not machine links. Measured on a real repo: GraphQL closingIssuesReferences returned zero rows and a closes/fixes/resolves #N regex matched zero of 34 open PR bodies — while a third of them fixed open issues. The claim map is produced by READING every non-bot open PR body and recent merged PR titles+bodies, and classifying each #N reference as: fixes / partial / context / follow-up-spawned-by. A regex pass is a starting index, never the answer. Dependabot bodies are full of external #N noise — exclude bots up front.

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 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. 24d ago First seen · 189 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A d382034a1623

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issue-burndown is a skill published in the GitHub repository jschulte/claude-plugins (0 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,508 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-12.

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