issue-grooming

issue-grooming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sfc-gh-eraigosa/dotfiles. It costs 140 tokens per session (2,062 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for reviewing and cleaning a GitHub issue backlog, which is the list of reported bugs and requested work. It compares issue claims with repository code, merged pull requests, and project documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to snapshot issues, group related reports, assign priority labels, find completed or obsolete work, and produce a shorter backlog for planning.
Why use it?
It helps identify issues already fixed, stale reports, incorrect descriptions, and work that no longer fits the project. Evidence from the repository is used instead of trusting issue text alone.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to snapshot issues, group related reports, assign priority labels, find completed or obsolete work, and produce a shorter backlog for planning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sfc-gh-eraigosa/dotfiles/issue-grooming
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 sfc-gh-eraigosa/dotfiles --skill issue-grooming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sfc-gh-eraigosa/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,062 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 $0.00140 $0.02062
Opus 5.5 $0.00056 $0.00825
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00206

Measured today against content hash bd0202e318b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-grooming 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/groom-apply.sh, scripts/groom-labels.sh, scripts/groom-report.sh, …), 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.

ai/skills/issue-grooming/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

issue-grooming — groom the backlog against what actually shipped

Grooming answers three questions for every open issue, with evidence from the repo rather than from the issue's own text: is it already addressed, how important is it now, and does its body still describe work that fits the repo. The output is a labelled, trimmed backlog and a report the owner can scan in a minute.

Why the rigor: issues are written at a moment in time. In this repo code moves (src/ → sdk/), leaves of a plan merge under PR titles that never mention the issue, follow-ups get absorbed by later objectives, and a bot keeps filing reports. An issue's text is the claim; main, merged PRs, and docs/mbo/index.md are the evidence. Only the evidence decides.

0 — Setup (one command)

bash ai/skills/issue-grooming/scripts/groom-snapshot.sh -o <scratch>/groom
bash ai/skills/issue-grooming/scripts/groom-labels.sh      # ensures priority:1..5 exist (idempotent)

The snapshot writes issues.json/issues.txt (bodies + comments), labels.json, merged-prs.json (with the issues each PR closed), and clusters.txt (a first-cut grouping). Read clusters.txt and regroup by hand: a cluster is a set of issues that share a program, tool, or plan (e.g. all fleet-connect sub-issues, all gss tech-debt, one bot's reports). Clusters are the unit of triage because verifying them needs the same files.

Hooks note (this repo): the privacy hook blocks command text containing the login name or an absolute home path, so refer to scratch dirs by a glob or ~. The Bash tool runs zsh; build flag lists as arrays.

1 — Verify, one cluster at a time

For each cluster, establish what shipped before judging any issue:

  • docs/mbo/index.md row(s) and the plan's TRACKING.md ledger — the state column and the "pending" lists are the fastest map of what landed and what is still owed.
  • merged-prs.json — grep titles for the slug / leaf names and the issue number; many fixes cite the issue only in the PR title (… (#331)), not in a closing reference.
  • The code or docs the issue names — open the path on main (git show main:<path> when the working tree is on a branch) and confirm the verb/flag/test/doc exists.

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. today First seen · 136 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A bd0202e318b1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

issue-grooming is a skill published in the GitHub repository sfc-gh-eraigosa/dotfiles (50 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 2,062 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-10-20.

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