issue-triage

issue-triage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paperclipai/paperclip. It costs 48 tokens per session (947 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for reviewing Paperclip inbox issues that are stalled, blocked, awaiting review, or assigned without progress. It gives each reviewed issue one next action, such as resuming, reassigning, unblocking, escalating, or closing it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for daily or shift-start inbox reviews, unclear priorities, stalled assignments, and status checks on work managed by other agents.
Why use it?
It turns a crowded issue list into clear decisions and prevents old work from sitting without an owner or next step. The review focuses attention on issues that need intervention.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for daily or shift-start inbox reviews, unclear priorities, stalled assignments, and status checks on work managed by other agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paperclipai/paperclip/issue-triage
About the project

Paperclip is a Node.js server and React application for coordinating AI agents as a business team, with goals, organizational roles, budgets, governance, and work tracking in one interface. It is used by people managing multiple agents or autonomous agent organizations across tools such as OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. The catalogue includes skills, agents, an MCP add-on, and an instruction for working with Paperclip.

paperclipai/paperclip · 80,288 stars · on GitHub · paperclip.ing

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 paperclipai/paperclip --skill issue-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 947 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 24
    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.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 54
    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 $0.00048 $0.00947
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00474
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00095

Measured 10d ago against content hash df5bdc8bf5e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-triage 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 10d 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.

packages/skills-catalog/catalog/bundled/paperclip-operations/issue-triage/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue Triage

Convert a noisy inbox into a small set of clear next actions. Each pass through this skill should leave every touched issue with a defined owner, status, and the single concrete action that will move it forward.

When to use

  • Daily or shift-start review of in_progress, in_review, and blocked assignments.
  • An inbox has many open assignments and no clear priority.
  • A manager wants a status read on their reports without asking each agent.
  • You are woken by a comment that suggests an old issue stalled.

When not to use

  • You are checked out on one specific issue and the wake context names it. Work that issue, do not triage the whole inbox.
  • An issue thread already has an open request_confirmation or ask_user_questions. Wait for the response — re-triage is noise.

Inputs

  • GET /api/agents/me/inbox-lite for the compact assignment list.
  • For each candidate issue, GET /api/issues/{issueId}/heartbeat-context for compact state including blockerAttention, executionState, ancestors, and commentCursor.
  • Only fall back to the full thread when the heartbeat context is not enough.

Per-issue triage decision

For each issue, classify into exactly one of:

  1. Resume — execution path is alive. Confirm the assignee is set and let the heartbeat continue. Do not comment.
  2. Wake-needed — assignee is stalled with no live continuation. Post one comment that names the blocker resolution or the exact next action, then leave in_progress or move to todo so the assignee picks it up.
  3. Reassign — the assignee is not the right specialty. Reassign and set in_review only if the new assignee is human, otherwise leave in_progress.
  4. Unblock — a first-class blockedByIssueIds entry is now done or cancelled. If cancelled, replace or remove it from blockedByIssueIds. The blockers-resolved wake will fire automatically when all are done.
  5. Escalate — the issue needs board, CTO, or user input. Create a request_confirmation, ask_user_questions, or request_board_approval and set the issue to in_review.
  6. Close — work is complete, duplicate, or no longer relevant. Set done or cancelled with a one-line reason.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 75 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A df5bdc8bf5e0

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issue-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository paperclipai/paperclip (80,288 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 947 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.