claim-issue

A Git-based locking procedure for assigning an issue to one developer or coding agent. It synchronizes with the shared repository and records the assignment on a separate branch reference.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before starting an issue in a shared GitHub project to claim its number, identify the developer or agent, and optionally associate a branch name.
Why use it?
It prevents two people or agents from starting the same issue at once. The first successful push claims the task, while existing assignments or completed issues are rejected.

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/loopdive/js2/claim-issue
Any agent
npx skills add loopdive/js2 --skill claim-issue
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/loopdive/js2

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 847 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 $0.00064 $0.00847
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00424
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00085

Measured yesterday against content hash e72f4f44cbee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claim-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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills/claim-issue/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/claim-issue — atomic cross-developer issue claim (#2168)

With several developers (humans + agents, possibly across forks) on the project, the in-memory TaskList is invisible to other devs. Before starting work on an issue you MUST take a git-backed lock so nobody else grabs the same task.

The lock lives on a dedicated orphan ref — refs/heads/issue-assignments on origin — holding one <id>.json per claimed issue. Pushing there does not move main, so it never rebuilds queued merge groups (#1951) and never triggers CI. The first git push wins; a concurrent claimant gets a non-fast-forward rejection, re-fetches, and re-evaluates.

Claim before you start

# Humans:
node scripts/claim-issue.mjs <id> <your-name>

# Dev agents — use your github-account-prefixed name:
node scripts/claim-issue.mjs <id> ttraenkler/<agent-name> --branch issue-<id>-<slug>
# (or set CLAIM_GITHUB_ACCOUNT=ttraenkler and pass just <agent-name>)

The script does the sync-and-check for you, in this order:

  1. git fetch origin (the assignment ref and main).
  2. Refuse (exit 4) if the issue is already done/wont-fix on origin/main.
  3. Refuse (exit 3) if it's already claimed by someone else — STOP and pick another issue. (Pass --force only to deliberately steal, e.g. reclaiming a suspended branch.)
  4. Otherwise write <id>.json and push to the ref immediately.

Interpret the exit code, don't just read the text:

  • 0 — you own it. Proceed: create your worktree, set the issue's status: in-progress + assignee: in your branch (lazy reflection onto main lands with your PR), implement.
  • 3 — taken. Pick the next candidate.
  • 4 — already closed on main. Skip; flag the tech lead to reconcile the queue.
  • 5 — push kept getting rejected (heavy contention). Just re-run.

Inspect / release / complete

node scripts/claim-issue.mjs --list                 # all live claims (id, assignee, branch)
node scripts/claim-issue.mjs --check <id>           # is #<id> free? (exit 0 free / 3 taken)
node scripts/claim-issue.mjs --release <id> <name>  # abandon/suspend — frees it for others
node scripts/claim-issue.mjs --complete <id>        # mark done when your PR merges

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. yesterday First seen · 65 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A e72f4f44cbee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claim-issue is a skill published in the GitHub repository loopdive/js2 (59 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 847 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.