github-issue-to-pr

github-issue-to-pr is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenHands/extensions. It costs 57 tokens per session (4,209 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automation that turns labeled GitHub issues into pull requests. It watches repositories for a chosen label, asks an OpenHands coding session to implement the issue, and handles the repository work around it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement issues from one or more repositories on a schedule, track each label event once, and let the resulting agent work become a pull request.
Why use it?
It removes the manual steps of detecting eligible issues, creating a branch, starting the agent, committing changes, pushing them, and opening a pull request.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to implement issues from one or more repositories on a schedule, track each label event once, and let the resulting agent work become a pull request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openhands/extensions/github-issue-to-pr
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 OpenHands/extensions --skill github-issue-to-pr
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenHands/extensions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,209 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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: 10 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 Privilege Escalation · line 56
    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 366
    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 Supply Chain · line 231
    Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.
    Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.
  • high Supply Chain · line 244
    Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.
    Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 68
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 98
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 231
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 244
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • low Supply Chain · line 68
    Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.
    Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.
  • low Supply Chain · line 98
    Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.
    Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.
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 $0.00057 $0.04209
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.01684
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00842
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00421

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 602425d9c99c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-issue-to-pr scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/agent_conversation.py, scripts/github_client.py, scripts/main.py, …), 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -s https://api.github.com/user \
skills/github-issue-to-pr/SKILL.md · 388 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 388 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Issue to PR Automation

Agent Canvas catalog

For new Agent Canvas installations, use the GitHub issue to PR catalog entry. Its deterministic worker.py scanner delegates each eligible issue to a stable conversation using the selected agent profile. The manual upload flow below remains for existing deployments and is deprecated for new installations.

Create a cron automation that watches one or more GitHub repositories for issues with a trigger label, starts an OpenHands conversation once per label event with the repository's default branch already checked out, and opens a pull request with whatever the agent produced.

The automation script is deterministic: issue discovery, label-event tracking, state persistence, the clone, the branch, the commit, the push, the pull request, the issue comments, and the clone's removal are all handled in Python. The LLM is invoked only to write the code.

The agent is told which issue to implement, not what it says. It fetches the description, the discussion, and whatever they link to itself, so nothing in the prompt goes stale between dispatch and the moment the agent reads it.

That needs read access, so the conversation is handed exactly one secret, GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN, and no MCP servers. AGENT_SECRET_NAMES stays an allow-list: the rest of the deployment's secret store is not reachable from a conversation whose instructions came from an issue.

The agent also finishes the job: it commits, pushes its branch, and opens the pull request, so the pull request appears when the agent stops rather than on the next poll. The script does not trust that it happened - when the conversation ends it asks GitHub whether the pull request exists, and opens it itself when it does not. origin still carries no credential, so every GitHub command the agent runs has to name GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN; the SDK only puts a secret in the environment of a command that mentions it, and masks it in the output.


Read the full file on GitHub · 388 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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 Changed · +7 lines 602425d9c99c
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +7 lines 283337acba4d
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 374 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 906571a53315

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-issue-to-pr is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenHands/extensions (167 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 4,209 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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