issue-setup

A setup procedure for preparing a GitHub repository for issue tracking. It synchronizes labels and creates or connects a GitHub Projects board, which organizes work items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize labels and a Projects board for the current repository or another GitHub repository.
Why use it?
It removes the manual setup needed before a team can manage issues consistently in GitHub.

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/nirecom/agents/issue-setup
Any agent
npx skills add nirecom/agents --skill issue-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nirecom/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 454 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 $0.00027 $0.00454
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00227
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00045

Measured yesterday against content hash 4b3b93b14bdf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-setup 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/run-issue-setup.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/issue-setup/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Initialize a target repo for GitHub Issues: sync its label set and create/link a Projects v2 board.

Scope

  • Sync the target repo's label set (from agents/.github/labels.yml) and initialize its Projects v2 board.
  • Cross-repo aware: the target repo may differ from the CWD repo.
  • Non-GitHub remote: skip and notify the user.

Pre-flight

  • Read rules/github-issues.md — on-demand-only, never auto-injected; it owns the Labels section (sync-labels.sh, .github/labels.yml) and the Projects v2 project scope requirement.
  • AGENTS_CONFIG_DIR must be set.
  • gh must be authenticated with the project scope; if absent, tell the user to run gh auth refresh -s project and stop.
  • Run bin/is-github-dotcom-remote against the target repo; on rc=1, exit 0 with a notice.

Procedure

IS-1. Confirm the target repo via AskUserQuestion:

  • current: use the CWD repo (resolve via gh repo view).
  • other: prompt for an OWNER/REPO string.

IS-2. Sync labels (no confirmation — automatic): run run-issue-setup.sh --step labels --repo "$TARGET_REPO".

IS-3. Check the project: run run-issue-setup.sh --step check-project --repo "$TARGET_REPO" → rc=0 present / rc=1 absent.

IS-4. When the project is absent, AskUserQuestion:

  • create: run run-issue-setup.sh --step ensure-project --repo "$TARGET_REPO".
  • skip: notify the user that a manual link is required, then exit 0.

IS-5. Report the outcome to the user.

Backend script path: $AGENTS_CONFIG_DIR/skills/issue-setup/scripts/run-issue-setup.sh.

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. yesterday First seen · 39 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 4b3b93b14bdf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

issue-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository nirecom/agents (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 454 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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