issue-triage

issue-triage is a skill for Claude Code from the-open-agent/oss-skills. It costs 102 tokens per session (2,166 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for organizing incoming repository issues, which are public reports of bugs, requests, or questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create issue forms and labels, decide what to close, manage stale reports, and set up issue-handling automation.
Why use it?
It turns a neglected backlog into clear groups of work that can be acted on, postponed, or closed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is Thanks for the report. Please check [existing issues](../issues?q=is%3Aissue) first..

Part of the oss-skills plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create issue forms and labels, decide what to close, manage stale reports, and set up issue-handling automation.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/the-open-agent/oss-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/the-open-agent/oss-skills/issue-triage

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oss-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,166 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 $0.00102 $0.02166
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01083
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00433
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00217

Measured 10d ago against content hash 54a4dc9979d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-triage 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 10d 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/issue-triage/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue Triage

An untriaged backlog is not a to-do list — it is a public record of requests you are ignoring. Every issue is either actionable, waiting on someone, or should be closed. There is no fourth state, and "open forever" is the one that quietly costs you contributors.

Issue forms beat templates

.yml forms produce structured, complete reports. Markdown templates get deleted by the reporter and produce "it doesn't work".

# .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml
name: Bug report
description: Something isn't working
labels: ["bug", "needs-triage"]
body:
  - type: markdown
    attributes:
      value: |
        Thanks for the report. Please check [existing issues](../issues?q=is%3Aissue) first.
  - type: input
    id: version
    attributes: { label: Version, placeholder: "4.2.0" }
    validations: { required: true }
  - type: textarea
    id: repro
    attributes:
      label: Reproduction
      description: Minimal steps or a link to a minimal repo. This is the field that determines whether we can help.
    validations: { required: true }
  - type: textarea
    id: expected
    attributes: { label: Expected vs actual }
    validations: { required: true }
  - type: input
    id: env
    attributes: { label: OS and runtime, placeholder: "macOS 15.3, Node 22.11" }

Also add .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml to route non-bugs away from the tracker:

blank_issues_enabled: false
contact_links:
  - name: Question or help
    url: https://github.com/OWNER/REPO/discussions/categories/q-a
    about: Ask in Discussions — questions here will be converted.
  - name: Security vulnerability
    url: https://github.com/OWNER/REPO/security/advisories/new
    about: Report privately. Do not open a public issue.

Keep forms short. Every required field costs you some fraction of reports, and a bug you never hear about is worse than one reported imperfectly. Three fields that matter beat nine that produce abandonment.

A label set you will actually maintain

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 10d ago First seen · 197 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 54a4dc9979d1

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issue-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository the-open-agent/oss-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 2,166 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.