understand-issue

understand-issue is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mastra-ai/mastra. It costs 24 tokens per session (3,057 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guided way to investigate a GitHub issue or software bug with another person or agent. It follows the code's history and structure to find the likely underlying cause.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trace changes, understand related parts of a codebase, and diagnose the root cause of an issue.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork when a bug report does not explain where the problem comes from or what it affects.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to trace changes, understand related parts of a codebase, and diagnose the root cause of an issue.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mastra-ai/mastra/understand-issue
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.

Any agent
npx skills add mastra-ai/mastra --skill understand-issue
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,057 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin unknown 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 $0.00024 $0.03057
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01528
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00611
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00306

Measured 11d ago against content hash a4964f0577ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

understand-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 11d 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.

.mastracode/skills/understand-issue/SKILL.md · 249 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 11d ago First seen · 249 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A a4964f0577ce

Subscribe to this mod's changes

understand-issue is a skill published in the GitHub repository mastra-ai/mastra (27,896 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 3,057 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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