work-issue

A guided workflow for taking a numbered GitHub issue from its description to a local, committed code change. It creates a branch, implements and tests the change, then pauses for your review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want to implement a specific GitHub issue, add or update relevant tests, run the project's checks, and prepare the changes for review.
Why use it?
It keeps issue requirements, branch setup, testing, and commits in one repeatable process. It also prevents code from being pushed or a pull request from being opened before you approve it.

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/justinthomas2/agentrc/work-issue
Any agent
npx skills add JustinThomas2/agentrc --skill work-issue
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JustinThomas2/agentrc

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 449 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 $0.00037 $0.00449
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00225
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00045

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8fd7ce42745a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-issue 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.

skills/work-issue/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

ISSUE = $ARGUMENTS — if that reads as a literal placeholder instead of a number, use the issue number I gave when invoking this skill. If I gave none, ask for it before doing anything else.

Your task

  1. Run gh issue view ISSUE and read the issue. Summarize it and its acceptance criteria in your own words. If anything is ambiguous, ask me BEFORE writing any code.
  2. Switch to main - if the working tree has WIP, stash it or commit it first, never carry it along silently - then git pull. Create a branch named <type>/ISSUE-<short-slug> off the freshly pulled main (never off another feature branch), following the branch naming and commit conventions in my agent instructions (AGENTS.md).
  3. Implement the change. Add or adjust tests where they apply. Run the project's linter and test suite and get them passing.
  4. Commit in logical units using Conventional Commit messages, each ending with the AI-attribution trailer from AGENTS.md.
  5. STOP — do not push and do not open a PR. Show me:
    • the branch name
    • a short summary of what changed and why
    • git diff main...HEAD --stat plus the key hunks Then STOP. When I'm satisfied, I'll invoke open-pr with issue N.
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 · 33 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 8fd7ce42745a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

work-issue is a skill published in the GitHub repository JustinThomas2/agentrc (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 449 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.

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