next-issue-init

next-issue-init is a skill for Claude Code from kelp/agent-plugins. It costs 32 tokens per session (391 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup command that adds a Next issue binding to a project's CLAUDE.md file. CLAUDE.md is a project instruction file used by the coding agent; the binding records where backlog, plans, specifications, checks, and other rules are defined.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing a new project for the Next issue workflow, then fill in the required project values.
Why use it?
It gives the issue workflow the project-specific information it needs before work begins. It also avoids adding a duplicate setup section if one already exists.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

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 next-issue plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when preparing a new project for the Next issue workflow, then fill in the required project values.

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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 kelp/agent-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install next-issue

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install next-issue, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 391 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 $0.00032 $0.00391
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00156
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d3724da068e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

next-issue-init 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/next-issue/skills/next-issue-init/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

/next-issue-init

Add Next issue binding to this project's CLAUDE.md.

Procedure

1. Read the configuration fragment

Read the file at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/docs/claude-md-fragment.md. This contains the Next issue binding template formatted as a CLAUDE.md section.

2. Check current CLAUDE.md

  • If no CLAUDE.md exists in the project root, create one with just a # CLAUDE.md header followed by the fragment content.
  • If CLAUDE.md exists, check if it already contains "Next issue binding" or the old heading "Next TODO binding". If so, report that the binding is already present and stop. Do not add a second copy.
  • If CLAUDE.md exists but lacks both headings, append the fragment content to the end of the file.

3. Report result

Tell the user what you did:

  • "Created CLAUDE.md with Next issue binding"
  • "Added Next issue binding to existing CLAUDE.md"
  • "Issue binding already present in CLAUDE.md"

4. Next steps

Tell the user to fill in the eight binding values: backlog, plan, spec, gates, CI, review axes, rules, and claims (optional). The backlog is a GitHub repository. Tell the user to create the labels parent, ready, in-progress, and blocked in that repository when they do not exist.

Previously this command was /next-todo-init.

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 · 52 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A d3724da068e4

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next-issue-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository kelp/agent-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 391 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-07.

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