github-issue-dependencies

github-issue-dependencies is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sponge-b0b/Polaris. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,183 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A helper for creating parent-child and dependency links between GitHub issues using the GitHub command-line tool. It only performs relationship changes that another workflow has already decided are correct.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps workflows mark issues as sub-issues, blocked by other issues, or blocking other issues. It is used by specification, ticket, and project-delivery workflows.
Why use it?
It keeps GitHub relationship commands in one place and prevents different workflows from duplicating tracker details. It does not decide whether a dependency is needed or where it belongs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/sponge-b0b/polaris/github-issue-dependencies
Any agent
npx skills add sponge-b0b/Polaris --skill github-issue-dependencies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sponge-b0b/Polaris

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,183 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 $0.00057 $0.01183
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00592
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00118

Measured 3d ago against content hash 8722ea4f3303, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-issue-dependencies 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 3d 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.

.agents/skills/github-issue-dependencies/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Issue Dependencies

This is a mechanical relationship helper, not a semantic lifecycle owner and not a standalone Human Handoff.

Authorized callers:

  • $to-specs — native dependency mutations for same-lineage Spec prerequisites after it has established semantic ownership and cycle safety;
  • $to-tickets — native direct-decomposition hierarchy plus dependency edges it already owns;
  • $project-delivery-management — native blocked by / blocking mutations only after it has established cross-Wayfinder semantic ownership, lowest-accurate placement, and cycle safety.

Do not let this helper decide whether a dependency is semantically required, where it belongs, or which lifecycle owns it.

Native gh flags

As of gh CLI v2.94.0 (June 2026), gh issue create supports:

  • --parent <number> — creates the new issue as a native sub-issue of <number>;
  • --blocked-by <numbers> — marks the new issue as blocked by the given issue number(s)/URL(s), comma-separated for multiple;
  • --blocking <numbers> — marks the new issue as blocking the given issue number(s)/URL(s);
  • --type <name> — sets the issue type, if your tracker uses GitHub's issue types.

All four flags can be combined in one call.

$to-tickets hierarchy invariant

Only $to-tickets may use this helper to establish direct-decomposition parentage during ticket publication/reconciliation.

Resolve <native_parent_issue_number> from the artifact directly decomposed by $to-tickets:

  • ordinary Spec ticketing → the Spec issue number;
  • Spec Review remediation → the Spec Review issue number.

Do not substitute an upstream provenance issue for the direct decomposition parent. In particular, a remediation ticket's originating Parent Spec remains lifecycle/branch provenance and is not its native GitHub parent.

Example:

gh issue create \
  --title "..." \
  --body "..." \
  --parent <native_parent_issue_number> \
  --blocked-by <blocker_1_number>,<blocker_2_number> \
  --label ready-for-agent

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. 3d ago First seen · 124 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 8722ea4f3303

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github-issue-dependencies is a skill published in the GitHub repository sponge-b0b/Polaris (4 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,183 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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