implement-direct

A workflow for making a small, clearly defined code change directly from a GitHub issue. It identifies the issue, creates or switches to its code branch, updates the code, and runs checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to resolve a specific GitHub issue, make the smallest required code changes, and run linting and tests.
Why use it?
It avoids spending time on a separate planning process for a narrowly scoped task while still checking the result.

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/marcusjellinghaus/mcp-tools-sql/implement_direct
Any agent
npx skills add MarcusJellinghaus/mcp-tools-sql --skill implement_direct
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MarcusJellinghaus/mcp-tools-sql

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 2 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 631 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00002 $0.00631
Opus 5 $0.00001 $0.00316
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00063

Measured 2d ago against content hash feb1311c09dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implement-direct 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to implement-direct — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/implement_direct/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Implement Direct

Implement a small, well-defined issue directly — no planning phase, no task tracker.

Resolve Issue Number

The user may provide an issue number as the argument (available as $ARGUMENTS). If no issue number is provided:

  1. Read .vscodeclaude_status.txt and extract the issue number from the Issue #NNN line
  2. If the file doesn't exist or has no issue number, ask the user

Steps

  1. Fetch issue details Call mcp__mcp-workspace__github_issue_view with the issue number. Read the issue title, description, and acceptance criteria carefully.

  2. Checkout/create issue branch

    mcp-coder gh-tool checkout-issue-branch <issue_number>
    
  3. Understand context

    • Read relevant source files referenced in the issue
    • Understand the existing code patterns and conventions
    • Identify the minimal set of changes needed
  4. Implement changes

    • Make the required code changes directly
    • Follow existing code patterns and conventions
    • Keep changes focused and minimal — only what the issue requires
  5. Run quality checks

    • mcp__mcp-tools-py__run_pylint_check — fix all issues
    • mcp__mcp-tools-py__run_pytest_check (with extra_args: ["-n", "auto"]) — fix all failures
    • mcp__mcp-tools-py__run_mypy_check — fix all issues
    • ./tools/ruff_check.sh — fix all issues
  6. Format code Use mcp__mcp-tools-py__run_format_code to format all code (black + isort).

  7. Update issue status

    mcp-coder gh-tool set-status status-07:code-review
    
  8. Suggest follow-up steps

    • /commit_push — commit and push changes
    • /check_branch_status — verify branch is clean
    • /implementation_review — request a review of the implementation

Scope Guidance

This skill is designed for small, well-defined issues that can be implemented in a single pass. If the issue is complex or involves multiple components, recommend the full workflow instead:

  1. /create_plan — create a detailed implementation plan
  2. /implement — implement the plan step by step

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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 · 71 lines · 2 tokens per session scan A feb1311c09dd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

implement-direct is a skill published in the GitHub repository MarcusJellinghaus/mcp-tools-sql (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2 tokens to every session and 631 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to implement-direct, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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