do-issue-guided

do-issue-guided is a skill for Claude Code from thermiteau/maverick. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,786 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided workflow for working on a GitHub issue, which is a tracked task or bug in a code repository. It handles routine steps automatically and asks for confirmation at important decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to take a valid GitHub issue from initial checks through implementation and review, with confirmation points along the way.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to manage every step manually while keeping you in control when choices or uncertainty arise.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the maverick plugin — 41 skills, 5 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

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/thermiteau/maverick/do-issue-guided
Any agent
npx skills add thermiteau/maverick --skill do-issue-guided
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thermiteau/maverick

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install maverick, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 5 agents, 5 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,786 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 5.1 $0.00037 $0.02786
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01393
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00557
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00279

Measured 6d ago against content hash a1b60f7417ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

do-issue-guided 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.

skills/do-issue-guided/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Work on GitHub Issue (Guided)

Work on GitHub issue $ARGUMENTS interactively. Follow every phase in order. Do not skip phases. Proceed autonomously through routine work, but pause for user confirmation at key decision points marked with 🔲 Checkpoint.

Preflight (mandatory)

Run this first. If it exits non-zero, halt and report the stderr output to the user verbatim. Do not proceed.

uv run maverick preflight do-issue-guided

The check verifies the project is initialised and required tools (gh, git, uv) are on PATH. PR code review runs locally as the agent-code-reviewer subagent (see Phase 8); the optional CI-side re-run described in mav-bp-remote-code-review is not required.

Before You Begin

If $ARGUMENTS is empty or not a valid issue number, ask the user for the issue number before proceeding. Do not attempt any phase without it.

Entry check: run uv run maverick coord read <repo> $ARGUMENTS. If another instance holds a live claim, or the issue carries a blocked-by:#N label, stop and report to the user — guided mode does not take a claim of its own, but it must not silently work an issue an autonomous instance already owns.

State for this workflow lives in the maverick-task-progress marker on the issue (see mav-github-issue-workflow); there is no local state file.

Phase 1-2: Understand the Issue and Solution Design (subagent)

Run Phases 1 and 2 as a subagent to keep the main context window clean for implementation.

  1. Dispatch the agent-issue-analyst agent with:
    • Issue number: $ARGUMENTS
    • Mode: guided
  2. When the agent returns, verify the design landed durably — uv run maverick task-progress read <repo> $ARGUMENTS shows comments.design set to a comment ID.
  3. If the agent flagged ambiguities, present them to the user and wait for answers before continuing.

🔲 Checkpoint — Design review: Present a brief summary of the solution design to the user. Include the key approach, main components affected, and any trade-offs. Ask the user to confirm or suggest changes before proceeding. Do not continue until the user approves.

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 lines

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 · 204 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A a1b60f7417ba

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do-issue-guided is a skill published in the GitHub repository thermiteau/maverick (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,786 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 2026-08-30.

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