check-issue-status

check-issue-status is a skill for Claude Code from tomzx/agents. It costs 116 tokens per session (3,310 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A check that compares a GitHub issue with the current code to determine whether the requested feature or bug fix is already present. GitHub is a service for hosting code and tracking issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before starting work on an issue or when cleaning up stale issues; it reads the issue, extracts the requested behavior, and verifies that behavior in the code.
Why use it?
It prevents duplicate implementation work and helps identify old issues that may already be resolved, without relying only on issue labels or status.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it before starting work on an issue or when cleaning up stale issues; it reads the issue, extracts the requested behavior, and verifies that behavior in the code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tomzx/agents/check-issue-status
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 tomzx/agents --skill check-issue-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomzx/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,310 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 122
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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 $0.00116 $0.03310
Opus 5.5 $0.00046 $0.01324
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00662
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00331

Measured 8d ago against content hash a4a82b1bc904, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

check-issue-status 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 8d 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/check-issue-status/SKILL.md · 322 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 322 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Check Issue Status

Determines whether a GitHub issue is already addressed in the codebase. Reads the issue, extracts the behavior it requests in whatever format it is written, and inspects the code to verify whether that behavior is already present. It inspects the current checkout when it is the target repository, and clones the repository on demand when it is not. Use before starting work, or to find stale issues that can be closed.

This skill inspects code, not GitHub metadata. For duplicate issues and existing fix PRs use check-duplicates. To actually trigger a reported bug at runtime, use reproduce-issue.

Prerequisites

  • Apply the shared SDLC conventions in skills/sdlc/references/shared.md.
  • If no argument is provided, target the issue from $ISSUE_NUMBER (and $REPO).
  • gh CLI authenticated with read access to the target repository.
  • Network access when the repository still has to be cloned (step 1).
  • A GitHub issue number describing a feature request, a bug, or a task.

Skill attribution (GitHub)

Before posting to GitHub, read ../github-post-attribution/SKILL.md and append the footer for SKILL_DIR = check-issue-status.

Communication guidelines (outbound text)

Before composing any text posted or drafted on the user's behalf, apply communication-guidelines/SKILL.md.

Steps

1. Resolve the code checkout

Code inspection needs a checkout of the target repository. Use the current checkout when it is the target repository, and clone the repository when it is not.

Resolve the current directory's repository:

git remote get-url origin

Record its {owner}/{repository} as CWD_REPO. If the command fails (no git repository, or no origin remote), treat it as no match and clone.

  • If CWD_REPO matches $REPO (case-insensitive), set WORK_DIR to the current directory. Run git status --porcelain; if the tree has uncommitted changes, note it in the report, since the evidence may not match the published code.
  • Otherwise clone the repository into a cache directory and set WORK_DIR to it, reusing a previous clone when one exists:

Read the full file on GitHub · 322 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. 8d ago Changed · +44 lines a4a82b1bc904
  2. 22d ago Changed · +33 lines 6760136d3426
  3. 24d ago Changed 6dc5121ab86d
  4. 27d ago Changed f5ffc0ed6a8c
  5. 28d ago Changed · +4 lines 78509c810b17
  6. 2mo ago First seen · 241 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A f86123462dc2

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check-issue-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomzx/agents (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 3,310 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.