ticket-writing

ticket-writing is a skill for Claude Code from metraton/gaia. It costs 21 tokens per session (925 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing format for clear software tickets and issues. It puts the outcome and reason first, while keeping implementation details and evidence in a comment.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for drafting stories and subtasks with plain-language objectives, scope, acceptance criteria, links, and separate implementation evidence.
Why use it?
It helps a stakeholder understand a ticket quickly without needing to read technical instructions or verification logs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the gaia plugin — 38 skills, 9 agents, 11 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for drafting stories and subtasks with plain-language objectives, scope, acceptance criteria, links, and separate implementation evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/metraton/gaia/ticket-writing
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 metraton/gaia --skill ticket-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/metraton/gaia

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gaia, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 9 agents, 11 hooks.

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 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 925 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 $0.00021 $0.00925
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00463
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00093

Measured 9d ago against content hash 059abceb7799, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ticket-writing 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 9d 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/ticket-writing/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ticket Writing

The formula for tickets humans can read in ~15 seconds. The what and why go at the top; the how and evidence go in a comment. One Story per brief or theme; consolidate rather than inflate.

Core principle

A Story is readable by a non-technical stakeholder in 15 seconds. This means: plain English, active voice, value-oriented title, high-level description. All implementation detail and verification evidence lands in the first comment -- never in the description -- so the description reads clean.

Story template

Title: verb + outcome, plain English, no jargon, 80 chars max.

Description fields:

Field Content
Objective 1-2 sentences: what it achieves and why (high level).
What it covers 3-5 bullets of scope -- what, not how.
Acceptance criteria Checklist "Done when..." -- verifiable, not vague.
Links Brief slug / repo if applicable.

Evidence -- first comment only, never in description: commit hashes, verbatim commands, anything reproducible.

Subtask template

Title: short action phrase, plain English. Description: one line -- what it is / done when X.

Process

  1. Map to a brief or theme. One Story = one brief or coherent chunk of work. If the work spans multiple unrelated concerns, split into separate Stories. If it is one theme with sequential steps, use Subtasks.

  2. Write the title last. Draft the Objective and What-it-covers first; the title compresses naturally from those. If the title needs jargon to be precise, the description is missing context.

  3. Write the Acceptance Criteria as done-when checks. Each AC is a checkbox that a person (not a CI system) can verify. Vague ACs get pushed back: "migrated" means what? "History intact" means no commit lost.

  4. Move all evidence to the first comment. After the ticket is created, post a comment with: commit hashes, commands run verbatim, output snippets. This keeps the description clean for stakeholders and the evidence auditable for engineers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 93 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 059abceb7799

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ticket-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository metraton/gaia (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 925 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 2026-08-31.

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