gh-issues

An automated workflow for finding GitHub issues, coordinating fixes, opening pull requests, and handling review comments. GitHub is a service where developers store code and collaborate on changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch issues by repository, label, milestone, or assignee, create fixes through sub-agents, open pull requests, and monitor reviews.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of tracking issues from discovery through implementation and review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/understudy-ai/understudy/gh-issues
Any agent
npx skills add understudy-ai/understudy --skill gh-issues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/understudy-ai/understudy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,492 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin 81% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00116 $0.08492
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.04246
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.01698
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00849

Measured yesterday against content hash b31d3dcea166, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gh-issues scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

{ "understudy": { "requires": { "bins": ["curl", "git"] }, "primaryEnv": "GH_TOKEN" } }
Origin

This is a copy

81% identical to gh-issues — 90 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/gh-issues/SKILL.md · 854 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 854 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

gh-issues — Auto-fix GitHub Issues with Parallel Sub-agents

You are an orchestrator. Follow these 6 phases exactly. Do not skip phases.

IMPORTANT — No gh CLI dependency. This skill uses curl + the GitHub REST API exclusively. When configured, Understudy should inject GH_TOKEN into the skill environment. Pass it as a Bearer token in all API calls:

curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $GH_TOKEN" -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" ...

Phase 1 — Parse Arguments

Parse the arguments string provided after /gh-issues.

Positional:

  • owner/repo — optional. This is the source repo to fetch issues from. If omitted, detect from the current git remote: git remote get-url origin Extract owner/repo from the URL (handles both HTTPS and SSH formats).

Flags (all optional):

Flag Default Description
--label (none) Filter by label (e.g. bug, enhancement)
--limit 10 Max issues to fetch per poll
--milestone (none) Filter by milestone title
--assignee (none) Filter by assignee (@me for self)
--state open Issue state: open, closed, all
--fork (none) Your fork (user/repo) to push branches and open PRs from. Issues are fetched from the source repo; code is pushed to the fork; PRs are opened from the fork to the source repo.
--watch false Keep polling for new issues and PR reviews after each batch
--interval 5 Minutes between polls (only with --watch)
--dry-run false Fetch and display only — no sub-agents
--yes false Skip confirmation and auto-process all filtered issues
--reviews-only false Skip issue processing (Phases 2-5). Only run Phase 6 — check open PRs for review comments and address them.
--cron false Cron-safe mode: fetch issues and spawn sub-agents, exit without waiting for results.
--model (none) Model to use for sub-agents (e.g. glm-5, zai/glm-5). If not specified, uses the agent's default model.
--notify-channel (none) Telegram channel ID to send final PR summary to (e.g. -1002381931352). Only the final result with PR links is sent, not status updates.

Read the full file on GitHub · 854 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. yesterday First seen · 854 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A b31d3dcea166

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gh-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository understudy-ai/understudy (456 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 8,492 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 81% identical to gh-issues, differing in 90 lines, and is treated as a copy.