gh-issue-lifecycle

gh-issue-lifecycle is a skill for Claude Code from poindexter12/waypoint. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,873 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to managing GitHub issues through defined states and connecting them to branches and pull requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to name branches, move issues through a workflow, and link pull requests to completed issues.
Why use it?
It makes it clear whether work needs sorting, approval, clarification, is active, blocked, or complete.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the workflows plugin — 4 skills, 5 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to name branches, move issues through a workflow, and link pull requests to completed issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/poindexter12/waypoint/gh-issue-lifecycle
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 poindexter12/waypoint --skill gh-issue-lifecycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/poindexter12/waypoint

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 5 commands, 2 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,873 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 $0.00045 $0.01873
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00749
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00375
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00187

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d5d666046d9d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gh-issue-lifecycle 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 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.

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.

workflows/skills/gh-issue-lifecycle/SKILL.md · 279 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 279 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue Lifecycle

State machine for GitHub issues and how they connect to code.

State Diagram

                    ┌─────────────────┐
                    │  needs-triage   │ ← New issue created
                    └────────┬────────┘
                             │ triage
                    ┌────────▼────────┐
        ┌───────────│    accepted     │ ← In backlog
        │           └────────┬────────┘
        │                    │ start work
        │           ┌────────▼────────┐
        │    ┌──────│  in-progress    │ ← Active development
        │    │      └────────┬────────┘
        │    │               │ PR merged
        │    │      ┌────────▼────────┐
        │    │      │    completed    │ ← Issue resolved
        │    │      └─────────────────┘
        │    │
        │    │ blocked
        │    │      ┌─────────────────┐
        │    └─────►│     blocked     │ ← Waiting on dependency
        │           └─────────────────┘
        │
        │ needs-info
        │           ┌─────────────────┐
        └──────────►│   needs-info    │ ← Waiting for clarification
                    └─────────────────┘

State Definitions

Open States

State Label Meaning
New needs-triage Just created, not reviewed
Clarification needs-info Waiting on reporter
Backlog accepted Triaged, waiting for work
Active in-progress Someone is working on it
Blocked blocked Can't proceed

Closed States

State Reason Comment
Completed Fixed/implemented Via PR or manual
Duplicate Same as another "Duplicate of #N"
Won't Fix Out of scope Explain why
Invalid Not a real issue Cannot reproduce
Stale No activity Auto-closed after warning

Linking Issues to Code

Branch Naming

When starting work on issue #123:

feat/123-short-description    # feature
fix/123-short-description     # bug fix
chore/123-short-description   # maintenance
docs/123-short-description    # documentation
i18n/locale-code              # internationalization (e.g., i18n/zh-CN, i18n/ja-JP)
i18n/123-locale-code          # i18n with issue (e.g., i18n/42-es-MX)

Read the full file on GitHub · 279 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. 1mo ago First seen · 279 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A d5d666046d9d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gh-issue-lifecycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository poindexter12/waypoint (7 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,873 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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