github-issues

github-issues is a skill for Claude Code from Open-Curiosity/gini-agent. It costs 34 tokens per session (4,600 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A tool for managing GitHub Issues, which are records used to track bugs, tasks, and requests in a software repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search, view, create, label, assign, comment on, close, reopen, and triage issues, including bulk backlog operations.
Why use it?
It lets developers handle issue work from the command line instead of switching repeatedly to the GitHub website.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to search, view, create, label, assign, comment on, close, reopen, and triage issues, including bulk backlog operations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/open-curiosity/gini-agent/github-issues
About the project

Gini Agent is a personal AI-agent runtime that manages conversations, runs, tasks, approvals, memory, skills, jobs, tools, traces, audit events, and runtime health across its clients. It is for an agent that can remember, learn from task outcomes, and operate through desktop or mobile interfaces with user controls. Catalogue add-ons extend the runtime with skills and instructions.

Open-Curiosity/gini-agent · 2,005 stars · on GitHub

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 Open-Curiosity/gini-agent --skill github-issues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Open-Curiosity/gini-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,600 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 44 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 61
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 69
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 70
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 73
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 76
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 70
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 71
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 72
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 73
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 74
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 72
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 75
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 249
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 60
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 61
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 69
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 70
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 75
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 76
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 61
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00034 $0.04600
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.01840
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00920
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00460

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a50bfee8180d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

github-issues scanned grade B with 2 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 1mo 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo dnf install -y gh # Fedora / RHEL

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

description: "Create, search, triage, label, assign, comment on, and close GitHub issues using the gh CLI, with a curl REST fallback."
skills/dev/github-issues/SKILL.md · 454 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 454 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Issues

Manage GitHub issues end to end: list, search, view, create, label, assign, comment, close, reopen, triage, and run bulk operations. Every section leads with the gh CLI (the preferred path) and follows with a curl REST fallback for environments where gh is unavailable.

When To Use

  • User asks to file, view, search, or update a GitHub issue.
  • User asks to triage a backlog ("label the untriaged issues", "assign the open bugs to me").
  • User asks for the status of issues on a repo ("what's open on owner/repo", "show me the bugs I'm assigned").

When NOT to Use

  • Pull-request review or merge flows → not covered here; use gh pr ….
  • Linear, Jira, or other trackers → use their dedicated skill.
  • Plain local git history questions → answer with git log directly.

Setup

gh is the preferred path. It must be installed and authenticated before the first issue operation. Installing is non-interactive — do it yourself (it's a side-effecting command, so it runs through the approval seam; you propose it, you don't hand it to the user). Only the interactive sign-in in step 2 needs the user.

1. Install gh if it's missing

Check for it, and if it's absent, detect the platform and run the matching install command yourself:

command -v gh >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "gh present: $(gh --version | head -1)"

If that prints nothing, install it:

brew install gh                       # macOS / Linuxbrew
sudo dnf install -y gh                # Fedora / RHEL
sudo pacman -S --noconfirm github-cli # Arch
winget install --id GitHub.cli        # Windows

Debian/Ubuntu need the GitHub CLI apt repo added first — run this chain (don't ask the user to):

(type -p wget >/dev/null || (sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y wget)) \
  && sudo mkdir -p -m 755 /etc/apt/keyrings \
  && wget -nv -O- https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg \
     | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null \
  && sudo chmod go+r /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg \
  && echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" \
     | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list >/dev/null \
  && sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y gh

Read the full file on GitHub · 454 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 1mo ago First seen · 454 lines · 34 tokens per session scan B a50bfee8180d

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github-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository Open-Curiosity/gini-agent (2,005 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 4,600 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.