validate-issue-loop

validate-issue-loop is a skill for Claude Code from richkuo/rk-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,314 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automated workflow for checking a GitHub issue and, when appropriate, taking it through implementation and repeated pull-request review. A GitHub issue is a tracked request or bug, and a pull request is a proposed code change for review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate an issue, update its description when needed, implement the work, and continue through review until the resulting pull request is ready.
Why use it?
It removes the need for a person to manually pass the issue between validation, implementation, and review steps.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the rk-skills plugin — 37 skills, 1 command shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/richkuo/rk-skills/validate-issue-loop
Any agent
npx skills add richkuo/rk-skills --skill validate-issue-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richkuo/rk-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rk-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 1 command.

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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 1,314 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.01314
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00657
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00131

Measured 2d ago against content hash be0178c6e1e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-issue-loop 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 2d 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.

skills/validate-issue-loop/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

validate-issue-loop

Chain validate-issue → (conditional) update issue → work-on-issue-loop into one autonomous run, so an issue goes from "reported" to "PR through N rounds of review" without a human in the loop between steps. This is validate-issue's normal interactive handoff (its next-step line) made unattended: the loop reads its own verdict and decides what to do next, instead of waiting for the user to type a reply.

Do not skip validation. Auto-implementing an issue whose factual claims or proposal you haven't traced against the code just reproduces the issue's own mistakes in a PR. Every step of validate-issue still runs; only the "wait for the user's reply" step is replaced by a decision table.

Input

Same defaults as validate-issue: issue URL, #<N> / <N> / owner/repo#N, or nothing (defaults to the latest open issue in the current repo).

Optional targetBranch (orchestration form { issue, targetBranch } or a prose "target branch "): passed unchanged to every validate, plan, and build step in the chain, so the baseline and the PR base are that branch instead of the repo default. work-on-issue step 1 ("Target") owns its validation.

Steps

1. Run validate-issue

Invoke the validate-issue skill for the target issue (Skill tool, skill: validate-issue). Let it run its full process — steps 0 through 8 — and produce its verdict block:

**#<N>: Update issue description? <Yes|No>**  ·  Complexity: <score>/100 — Capability <k> (Risk <r>, Uncertainty <u> — <driver>); Volume <v> (Scope <s>, Coupling <c>, Verification <x>) · fableplan: <yes|no>  ·  Scope: <OK | too large — split/umbrella/narrow>

Its final next-step line is written for interactive use — in this loop, treat the verdict block as structured output to parse yourself, not a prompt to wait on. Don't ask the user to confirm; decide from the table in step 2.

2. Scope gate — stop if the issue is unsafe to auto-implement

Check the verdict's Scope field, Architecture section, and Concerns (for an already-addressing PR from validate-issue's step 1 linked-PR check) before doing anything else:

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 2d ago Changed · +2 lines be0178c6e1e7
  2. 6d ago First seen · 65 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A a68b73fa5999

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validate-issue-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository richkuo/rk-skills (49 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,314 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.

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