ticket-authoring

ticket-authoring is a skill for Claude Code from rampstackco/claude-skills-pm. It costs 185 tokens per session (2,385 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ticket-authoring, MIT.

A work-item writing skill for issue trackers such as Jira, Linear, or GitHub Issues. It turns a specification, bug report, or loose request into a ticket with the fields and checkable completion tests needed to start work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write bugs, tasks, user stories, spikes, and epics, or to check whether backlog items are ready to pull.
Why use it?
Incomplete tickets force the person doing the work to ask basic questions or make hidden assumptions. This records the scope, required information, and acceptance criteria in a ready-to-use form.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the rampstack-pm plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write bugs, tasks, user stories, spikes, and epics, or to check whether backlog items are ready to pull.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rampstackco/claude-skills-pm/ticket-authoring
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 rampstackco/claude-skills-pm --skill ticket-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills-pm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rampstack-pm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ticket-authoring

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rampstackco/claude-skills-pm/ticket-authoring"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rampstackco/claude-skills-pm/ticket-authoring.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 185 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,385 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00185 $0.02385
Opus 5.5 $0.00074 $0.00954
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00477
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00238

Measured 6d ago against content hash ab681d0600e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ticket-authoring 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to ticket-authoring — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/ticket-authoring/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ticket Authoring

Turn specs, bug reports, and loose requests into work items someone can pull and start without asking a question. Tracker-agnostic: works in Jira, Linear, GitHub Issues, or your tracker of choice.


When to use

  • Turning a PRD or spec into a set of tickets
  • Filing a bug that someone else will fix
  • Writing a user story with checkable acceptance criteria
  • Scoping a spike so it ends in a decision, not a shrug
  • Opening an epic with a goal, a metric, and a way to kill it
  • Auditing a backlog for tickets that are not ready to pull
  • Tagging work items with a capitalization stage for finance

When NOT to use

  • Writing the PRD or spec itself (use pm-spec-writing)
  • Deciding what ships this quarter (use roadmap-planning)
  • Running sprint ceremonies or measuring the team (use sprint-operations)
  • Writing up what went wrong after the fact (use after-action-report)
  • Handing a whole plan to a coding agent to execute unattended (use dispatch-authoring)

Required inputs

  • The source material: a spec, a bug description, a request, or a conversation
  • The ticket type, or enough context to pick one
  • The tracker's field set, if it has required custom fields
  • The parent epic or story, if one exists
  • The capitalization policy, if the team capitalizes software development

If the source is vague, ask before writing. A ticket written around a guess becomes a second ticket later.


The framework: five types, one definition of ready each

A ticket is ready when the person who pulls it can start work without a question. Each type has its own required fields, its own attachments, and its own done test. A field left blank is a question someone will ask in the middle of the sprint.

Every type shares a base: title, type, owner, parent link, labels, and capitalization stage.

Bug

A bug ticket proves the defect exists and defines how to prove it is gone.

  • Title. [area] [symptom] when [trigger]. Example: "Checkout: total shows $0.00 when a promo code is removed."
  • Repro steps. Numbered. Each step is one action. Someone who has never seen the product can follow them.
  • Environment. Build or version, browser or device, account type, data state.
  • Observed vs expected. Two separate lines. Never one sentence with "but."
  • Current test result. The test that fails today, or "no test covers this."
  • Severity and priority. Two fields. Severity is how bad the defect is. Priority is when the team fixes it.
  • Regression risk. What else touches this code path.
  • QA notes. Edge cases to check beyond the repro.
  • Fix verification method. The specific test that proves the fix, by name or by steps.
  • Expected test result after fix. What passing looks like.

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 6d ago First seen · 186 lines · 185 tokens per session scan A ab681d0600e2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ticket-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills-pm (4 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 185 tokens to every session and 2,385 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to ticket-authoring, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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