create-issue-gate

create-issue-gate is a skill for Claude Code from ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas. It costs 27 tokens per session (491 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of create-issue-gate, MIT.

A required planning step for creating a GitHub issue before starting an implementation task. A GitHub issue is a tracked work item with a description and acceptance checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It records the problem, goal, scope, exclusions, dependencies, status, and pass-or-fail acceptance criteria, leaving the issue as a draft when those criteria are missing or vague.
Why use it?
It prevents work from starting when the expected result cannot be tested or clearly judged.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit It records the problem, goal, scope, exclusions, dependencies, status, and pass-or-fail acceptance criteria, leaving the issue as a draft when those criteria are missing or vague.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas/create-issue-gate
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas --skill create-issue-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 491 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 94% 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 $0.00027 $0.00491
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00246
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00049

Measured 12d ago against content hash 60001772b41d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-issue-gate 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 12d 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

94% identical to create-issue-gate — 3 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.

.claude/skills/create-issue-gate/SKILL.md · 90 lines

What it actually says

Create Issue Gate

Overview

Create GitHub issues as the single tracking entrypoint for tasks, with a hard gate on acceptance criteria.

Core rule: no explicit, testable acceptance criteria from user => issue stays draft and execution is blocked.

Required Fields

Every issue must include these sections:

  • Problem
  • Goal
  • Scope
  • Non-Goals
  • Acceptance Criteria
  • Dependencies/Blockers
  • Status (draft | ready | blocked | done)

Acceptance Criteria Gate

Acceptance criteria are valid only when they are testable and pass/fail checkable.

Examples:

  • valid: "CreateCheckoutLambda-dev returns an openable third-party payment checkout URL"
  • invalid: "fix checkout" / "improve UX" / "make it better"

If criteria are missing or non-testable:

  • still create the issue
  • set Status: draft
  • add Execution Gate: blocked (missing valid acceptance criteria)
  • do not move task to execution

Issue Creation Mode

Default mode is direct GitHub creation using gh issue create.

Use a body template like:

## Problem
<what is broken or missing>

## Goal
<what outcome is expected>

## Scope
- <in scope item>

## Non-Goals
- <out of scope item>

## Acceptance Criteria
- <explicit, testable criterion 1>

## Dependencies/Blockers
- <dependency or none>

## Status
draft|ready|blocked|done

## Execution Gate
allowed|blocked (<reason>)

Status Rules

  • draft: missing/weak acceptance criteria or incomplete task definition
  • ready: acceptance criteria are explicit and testable
  • blocked: external dependency prevents progress
  • done: acceptance criteria verified with evidence

Never mark an issue ready without valid acceptance criteria.

Handoff to Execution

Execution workflows (for example closed-loop-delivery) may start only when:

  • issue status is ready
  • execution gate is allowed

If issue is draft, stop and request user-provided acceptance criteria.

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. 12d ago First seen · 90 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 60001772b41d

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create-issue-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas (8 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 491 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to create-issue-gate, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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