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github-issue-agent

github-issue-agent is a skill for Claude Code from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills. It costs 101 tokens per session (900 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A GitHub Issues assistant for recording lasting repository bugs, development obstacles, and architectural improvements with supporting evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search, create, comment on, and validate GitHub Issues related to repository friction and technical debt.
Why use it?
It reduces duplicate or poorly documented issues and checks submissions for secrets, valid issue categories, and adequate evidence before changes are made.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 plugins/agent-scaffolders/scripts/audit_skill.py plugins/dev-utils/skills/github-issue-agent --mode source.

Part of the dev-utils plugin — 19 skills shipped together

not rated 7repo changed 17d ago A scan 101 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to search, create, comment on, and validate GitHub Issues related to repository friction and technical debt.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/github-issue-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-utils, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 900 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 $0.00101 $0.00900
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00360
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00090

Measured 17d ago against content hash 9dd6eae466da, 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-agent 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 17d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 16 executable files (scripts/body_validator.py, scripts/friction_cluster_agent.py, scripts/gh_issue_close.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.

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.

plugins/dev-utils/skills/github-issue-agent/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Issue Agent (github-issue-agent)

Provides safe, deduplicated, root-cause-consolidated, and taxonomy-validated logging of repository execution friction, map debt, and bugs into GitHub Issues.

Contents

Critical Constraints

  • Scope Boundary: USE ONLY for durable repository bugs, execution friction (T1-T3), map debt, and architectural improvements. DO NOT USE for worktrees (use github-issue-worktree-agent) or PR lifecycles (use github-issue-pr-lifecycle-agent).
  • Dry-Run by Default: All issue operations generate payloads in dry-run mode unless --execute is explicitly passed.
  • Secret Redaction Gate: Submissions containing API keys, private tokens, or credentials are strictly blocked by redaction_gate.py.
  • Taxonomy Validation: All issues require explicit dimensions: type:*, tier:*, source:*, risk:*, and area:* or plugin:*.
  • Structured Sections: Bodies must include ## Summary, ## Observed Behavior, ## Expected Behavior, ## Evidence, and ## Impact.

Quick start

# Search related issues for deduplication
python3 plugins/dev-utils/skills/github-issue-agent/scripts/gh_issue_search.py \
  --title "Bug summary" --area-label "area:dev-utils"

# Generate validated issue payload (dry-run)
python3 plugins/dev-utils/skills/github-issue-agent/scripts/gh_issue_create.py \
  --title "Bug summary" \
  --body "## Summary\n...\n## Observed Behavior\n...\n## Expected Behavior\n...\n## Evidence\n...\n## Impact\n..." \
  --labels "type:friction,tier:1-friction,source:agent,risk:low,area:dev-utils"

Workflow

  1. Phase 1: Search & Deduplication: Execute gh_issue_search.py using title keywords and area labels to consolidate into existing open issues.
  2. Phase 2: Payload Generation: Structure the 5 mandatory markdown sections and assign the full taxonomy label set.
  3. Phase 3: Validation & Redaction: Run redaction_gate.py and body_validator.py to ensure zero secrets and compliant formatting.
  4. Phase 4: Submission or Comment: If root-cause exists, append evidence via gh_issue_comment.py; otherwise create new issue with --execute.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 lines

Files

What ships with it

28 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. 17d ago Changed · +15 lines 9dd6eae466da
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -43 lines · +21 tokens per session dd7038fb89ba
  3. 1mo ago Changed 65923af7e530
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 101 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 3ff0e92947ad

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github-issue-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository richfrem/agent-plugins-skills (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 900 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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