missive

A GitHub issue-context fetcher. GitHub issues are pages used to track bugs, tasks, and feature requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with one or more issue numbers to retrieve structured context and suggest branch names and pull-request closing keywords.
Why use it?
It gathers the issue details needed for planning without manually copying titles, descriptions, labels, and comments.

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/justinjdev/fellowship/missive
Any agent
npx skills add justinjdev/fellowship --skill missive
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/justinjdev/fellowship

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,214 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 $0.00041 $0.01214
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00607
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00121

Measured 2d ago against content hash 31facb1d2514, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

missive 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.

plugin/skills/missive/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Missive — GitHub Issue Context

Overview

Fetches structured context from one or more GitHub issues to inform quest planning. Extracts titles, bodies, labels, comments, and produces branch name suggestions and PR close keywords. Designed for both standalone use (display to user) and as input to Gandalf's quest spawning.

When to Use

  • Before spawning a quest from a GitHub issue
  • When you need structured issue context for planning
  • Invoked with /missive #42 or /missive 42 51 67

Input

Accepts one or more GitHub issue references as arguments:

  • Single: #42 or 42
  • Multiple: #42 #51 #67 or 42 51 67
  • Mixed: #42 51 #67

If no arguments are provided, respond with:

"Usage: /missive <issue>... — provide one or more issue numbers (e.g., /missive #42 or /missive 42 51 67)."

Process

Step 1: Parse Issue Numbers

Extract all issue numbers from the args using the pattern #?\d+. Strip any # prefix to get the raw number.

Step 2: Load Configuration

Read ~/.claude/fellowship.json if it exists. Extract:

  • branch.pattern — branch name pattern with placeholders (default: null, effective: fellowship/{slug})
  • branch.ticketPattern — regex for ticket extraction (default: [A-Z]+-\d+)
  • issues.autoClose — whether PRs should auto-close issues (default: true)

If the config file doesn't exist, use all defaults.

Step 3: Verify gh CLI

Before fetching, confirm gh is available:

gh --version

If gh is not installed or not authenticated, respond with:

"The gh CLI is required but not available. Install it from https://cli.github.com/ and authenticate with gh auth login."

Step 4: Fetch Issue Data

For each issue number, run:

gh issue view <number> --json title,body,labels,comments,assignees,milestone

If an issue is not found (non-zero exit), note the error and continue with remaining issues. Do not abort the entire operation for a single missing issue.

Step 5: Build Structured Output

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 2d ago First seen · 130 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 31facb1d2514

Subscribe to this mod's changes

missive is a skill published in the GitHub repository justinjdev/fellowship (5 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,214 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.