issues-workflow

issues-workflow is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (4,452 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A GitHub workflow that uses Issues to describe and organize work, with sub-issues, branches, pull requests, and automatic closing after a merge. GitHub Projects can optionally provide a visual overview.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning work in issue hierarchies and managing the path from an issue to its branch, pull request, and completed change.
Why use it?
It keeps task details, relationships, status, and history in one trackable place instead of splitting them between tools.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the gh-tools plugin — 6 skills shipped together , and of cc-skills

Good fit It is for planning work in issue hierarchies and managing the path…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/issues-workflow
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 terrylica/cc-skills --skill issues-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gh-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for issues-workflow

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/terrylica/cc-skills/issues-workflow.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/terrylica/cc-skills/issues-workflow)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/terrylica/cc-skills/issues-workflow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/terrylica/cc-skills/issues-workflow.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,452 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 $0.00036 $0.04452
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.02226
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00890
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00445

Measured yesterday against content hash dbe285623921, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issues-workflow 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 yesterday.

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/gh-tools/skills/issues-workflow/SKILL.md · 499 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 499 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Issues-First Workflow

Default: Use GitHub Issues exclusively for all content, hierarchy, and tracking. Optional: Link to Projects v2 for cross-repo visualization only.

Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

Critical Principle: Issues Are Everything

GitHub Issues = Content + Hierarchy + Status + History. GitHub Projects v2 = Visualization layer only (no content, no history).

With sub-issues (GA April 2025), Issues now handle hierarchy natively. Projects v2 is reduced to an optional visualization dashboard.

Issues vs Projects v2

Capability Issues (Default) Projects v2 (Visualization Only)
Content Body, comments, code blocks None (links to Issues only)
Hierarchy Sub-issues (100 per parent) Flat list
Status Open/Closed + labels Custom fields (no history)
Edit history Full diff on every edit None
Timeline All changes logged Status changes only (30-day limit)
Search Full-text + 30+ filters Limited
CLI gh issue list/view/create gh project (Classic PAT only)
Cross-repo Manual (--repo A --repo B) Single dashboard view

When to Use Each

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 ISSUES-FIRST WORKFLOW                        │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                              │
│   ALWAYS use Issues for:                                     │
│   ├── All content (findings, analysis, conclusions)          │
│   ├── Hierarchy (parent + sub-issues)                        │
│   ├── Status tracking (labels: status:in-progress)           │
│   ├── Categorization (labels: research:regime, priority:P0)  │
│   └── Filtering (gh issue list --label X --state Y)          │
│                                                              │
│   OPTIONALLY use Projects v2 for:                            │
│   ├── Cross-repo dashboard (single view across repos)        │
│   ├── Kanban visualization (drag-and-drop board)             │
│   ├── Roadmap timeline (visual date-based view)              │
│   └── Stakeholder reporting (Status Updates feed)            │
│                                                              │
│   NEVER put in Projects v2:                                  │
│   ├── Research findings (no edit history)                    │
│   ├── Analysis details (lost on update)                      │
│   ├── Any text content (use Issue body/comments)             │
│   └── Anything you need to track changes for                 │
│                                                              │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 499 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. yesterday First seen · 499 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A dbe285623921

Subscribe to this mod's changes

issues-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (62 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 4,452 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 2026-09-05.