jira-issue-locking

jira-issue-locking is a skill for Claude Code from skyfox675/agents-skills. It costs 191 tokens per session (5,413 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordination process for claiming, locking, and releasing Jira issues while several AI agents or operators work at the same time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before dispatching work, when checking whether an issue is already claimed, and after related pull requests merge or close.
Why use it?
It prevents two agents from silently working on the same Jira issue and creating duplicate or conflicting changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it before dispatching work, when checking whether an issue is already claimed, and after related pull requests merge or close.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skyfox675/agents-skills/jira-issue-locking
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add skyfox675/agents-skills --skill jira-issue-locking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skyfox675/agents-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 191 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,413 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 251
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00191 $0.05413
Opus 5 $0.00096 $0.02707
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.01083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00541

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2b94b06f9959, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jira-issue-locking 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.

.claude/skills/jira-issue-locking/SKILL.md · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Locking Jira Issues: Claim, Coordinate, Release

Multiple orchestrator sessions — run by different humans, on different machines, at the same time — work the same Jira issue queue. Without a claim protocol, two agents silently pick up the same issue, burn duplicate work, and open conflicting PRs. This skill is the claim protocol: how to lock a Jira issue before dispatching work, how to recognize and respect (or reclaim) someone else's lock, and how to release cleanly on every exit path.

All Jira reads and writes here go through the Atlassian MCP server (the official Atlassian Remote MCP); operations are referenced by their canonical tool names (getJiraIssue, editJiraIssue, searchJiraIssuesUsingJql, addCommentToJiraIssue, transitionJiraIssue, lookupJiraAccountId, atlassianUserInfo). Exact tool names depend on the connected server. An adopter without the Atlassian MCP can substitute the Jira REST v3 API or a Jira CLI for the same operations — the protocol is identical, only the call surface changes.

Related skills: pick what to claim with the jira-issue-filing and jira-issue-fields skills; dispatch the work with the dispatching-subagents skill; run the surrounding loop with the orchestrating-slots skill; drive the resulting PR with the driving-prs-to-merge skill.

Project bindings

These values are project policy, not protocol. The adopting project defines them in its own CLAUDE.md; this skill refers to them by placeholder.

Binding Meaning Illustrative default
<jira-project-key> Project key for JQL project = ... scoping (e.g. PROJ)
<jira-site>/cloudId The Jira site the MCP targets
<integration-branch> Branch agent PRs merge into dev (default branch was main)
<jira-done-status> Workflow status meaning "resolved/closed" Done
<jira-inprogress-status> Workflow status meaning "an agent is on it" In Progress
<jira-ready-status> Workflow status for queued, dispatchable work Ready
<claim-label> Site-wide "an automation holds this" label agent-claimed — created on first use, no bootstrap needed
<lock-marker> Stable greppable token in every lock comment claude-lock:
<hold-label> Operator-held "humans only, never dispatch" label do-not-dispatch — Jira label-name comparisons are case-sensitive; pick one casing and let every filter assume it (lowercase, single-token, no spaces)
<stale-window> Lock age threshold before reclaim is considered 24h (tune to typical PR cycle time)
<worktree-dir> Where agent worktrees live see the dispatching-subagents skill
<chat-channel> Team real-time channel for urgent pings Slack
<bot-trigger> The project's human-only AI-mention trigger @claude
Operator identities Informational roster of known operators resolve dynamically — see below

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 267 lines · 191 tokens per session scan A 2b94b06f9959

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jira-issue-locking is a skill published in the GitHub repository skyfox675/agents-skills (10 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 191 tokens to every session and 5,413 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-09-03.

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