pick-next-issue

pick-next-issue is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tobihagemann/turbo. It costs 77 tokens per session (588 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for choosing which open GitHub issue to work on next. GitHub issues are tracked reports or requests, and community engagement means reactions and comments from other users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch open issues, rank them by reactions and comments, review the top candidates, and plan work on the issue you select.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with a ranked view of issues that appear to matter most to the project community.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to fetch open issues, rank them by reactions and comments, review the top candidates, and plan work on the issue you select.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tobihagemann/turbo/pick-next-issue
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 tobihagemann/turbo --skill pick-next-issue
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tobihagemann/turbo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 588 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00077 $0.00588
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00294
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00059

Measured 12d ago against content hash 070dfa09b39c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pick-next-issue 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 12d 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/pick-next-issue/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pick Next Issue

Rank open GitHub issues by engagement and plan the selected issue.

Step 1: Fetch and Rank Issues

Run gh issue list to fetch open issues with engagement data:

gh issue list --state open --json number,title,url,reactionGroups,comments,labels,createdAt --limit 50

Calculate an engagement score for each issue:

  • Reactions score: Sum all reaction counts from reactionGroups (thumbs up, heart, hooray, etc.). Weight thumbs-up (THUMBS_UP) reactions 2x since they signal explicit demand.
  • Comments score: Count of comments on the issue.
  • Engagement score: (weighted reactions) + comments

Sort issues by engagement score descending.

Step 2: Present Top 3

Present the top 3 issues in a numbered list. For each issue, show:

  1. Title with issue number and link
  2. Labels (if any)
  3. Engagement: reaction breakdown and comment count
  4. Created: date
  5. First paragraph of the issue body (truncate if long)

If fewer than 3 open issues exist, present all of them.

If no open issues exist, inform the user and stop.

Step 3: User Picks an Issue

Ask the user to pick one of the presented issues (or request to see more).

If the user asks to see more, present the next 3 issues from the ranked list.

Step 4: Read the Full Issue

Fetch the complete issue details for the selected issue:

gh issue view <number> --json number,title,body,url,labels,comments,reactionGroups,assignees,milestone

Read the full issue body and comments to understand the requirements and any discussion context.

Step 5: Run /turboplan Skill

Run the /turboplan skill with the issue body as the task description. Tell turboplan that the plan must include a final implementation step: "Close issue #N or reference it in the PR with Closes #N."

Rules

  • Requires gh CLI authenticated with access to the current repo
  • If gh fails (not in a repo, not authenticated), inform the user and stop
  • Never modify issues. This skill is read-only until the implementation is committed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 12d ago First seen · 65 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 070dfa09b39c

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pick-next-issue is a skill published in the GitHub repository tobihagemann/turbo (402 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 588 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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