gh-issue-claim-coordination

gh-issue-claim-coordination is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control. It costs 77 tokens per session (3,127 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordination procedure for claiming GitHub issues before coding on them. GitHub issues are shared work items for bugs, tasks, or requests, and an assignee and label make ownership visible.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when picking up an issue, working through open issues, checking whether someone is already working on one, or releasing a completed claim.
Why use it?
It prevents multiple coding sessions or people from implementing the same issue and creating duplicate work or conflicting pull requests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the agent-traffic-control plugin — 105 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when picking up an issue, working through open issues, checking whether someone is already working on one, or releasing a completed claim.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control/gh-issue-claim-coordination
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control --skill gh-issue-claim-coordination
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-traffic-control, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 105 skills.

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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 3,127 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 $0.00077 $0.03127
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01563
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00625
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00313

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3a98a64b1d45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gh-issue-claim-coordination 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 7d 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.

plugins/agent-traffic-control/skills/gh-issue-claim-coordination/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub issue claim coordination (assignee + label)

When multiple Claude Code sessions (or human + agent) work the same repo in parallel, two sessions can independently pick up the same issue, do parallel implementations, and collide at PR time — burning hours of duplicated work and forcing one branch to be rebased or abandoned.

Default agent behaviour is silent. An agent dispatched to "work on the bug-tagged issues" does not automatically check whether another session is already on issue #N. There's no built-in coordination unless this skill (or equivalent) runs at pickup.

This skill installs a 60-second protocol — preflight check, atomic claim, stale-claim sweep, release on completion — using two GitHub-native primitives so the claim is visible everywhere (issue list UI, gh issue list, dashboards, sibling sessions).

Why both assignee AND a wip label?

They cost ~0 to set together and cover different failure modes:

  • assignees is GitHub's canonical "who's on this" primitive. gh issue list --assignee "" cleanly enumerates unclaimed work; agents tend to surface assignees in their own context without prompting.
  • A wip label is far more visible in the GitHub issue list UI (a coloured chip next to the title) and lets you find every active claim with one query: gh issue list --label wip. It also survives the case where someone reassigns the issue without thinking about coordination.

Belt and suspenders. If the assignee gets dropped on a bulk edit, the label still flags it; if the label gets dropped, the assignee still says it.

Pickup protocol

Step 0: Ensure the wip label exists (idempotent — runs every time)

Don't carry "did I do the setup yet?" state. The label create is cheap and noisy on success only the first time; on subsequent runs it just exits non-zero with "already exists", which || true swallows. Bake it into every pickup so a fresh repo or a teammate's repo just works.

gh label create wip \
  --description "Claimed by an active session — do not start parallel work" \
  --color FBCA04 \
  || true

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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. 7d ago Changed · +45 lines 3a98a64b1d45
  2. 12d ago First seen · 168 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 81085e68e320

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gh-issue-claim-coordination is a skill published in the GitHub repository wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 3,127 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 2026-08-31.

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