ziw-triage

ziw-triage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zaks-io/skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (4,713 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A script-guided process for cleaning up a project's issue tracker backlog. It checks whether tickets have the labels, status, dependencies, estimates, and details needed for an agent to implement them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare implementation tickets, identify blockers, fix tracker metadata, and separate work that needs human decisions.
Why use it?
It turns vague or stale tickets into ready work or clearly marked follow-up, so agents do not need to re-triage the backlog.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: argument-hint in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the zaks-io-skills plugin — 8 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare implementation tickets, identify blockers, fix tracker metadata, and separate work that needs human decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zaks-io/skills/ziw-triage
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 zaks-io/skills --skill ziw-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zaks-io/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install zaks-io-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,713 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 $0.00064 $0.04713
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.02357
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00943
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00471

Measured 5d ago against content hash c5b6c0d9a761, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ziw-triage 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 5d 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/ziw-triage/SKILL.md · 430 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 430 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue Triage

Issue Triage manages the issue tracker backlog so Orchestrator can run. It turns tracker items into well-shaped, dependency-aware, agent-ready work or explicit human/To Issues follow-up.

The end state is a useful Todo backlog:

  • every Todo implementation ticket is a one-PR kind-slice
  • ready work has ready-for-agent, the configured route, required labels, required estimate, complete body contract, and predicted footprint
  • blocked ready work stays in Todo with blocker relationships encoded
  • not-ready work is labeled or moved to the configured human, intake, parked, or To Issues path when config grants that authority
  • Orchestrator can consume the final starts, blocked-ready list, and next actions without re-triaging the same queue

Default triage starts from the configured ready and intake states, configured active or PR-linked issues that need reconciliation, and direct blockers of those tickets. In most Linear repos this means Todo, Triage, active or PR-linked issues with stale workflow metadata, and any active issues that directly block those tickets. Do not include unrelated Linear Backlog, Duplicate, Done, canceled, icebox, or other parked/terminal states by default.

This skill is script-driven tracker grooming. It is not research, implementation, code review, repo health monitoring, CI diagnosis, deploy diagnosis, security scanning, or production triage.

Read only:

  • docs/agents/workflow/config.md
  • source-of-truth specs, roadmap, milestone, and project docs cited by the config or scoped tickets
  • issue tracker metadata, bodies, comments, labels, statuses, estimates, projects, parents, and relationships
  • explicit user instructions
  • approved workflow script outputs from skills/ziw-orchestrate/scripts

Run the scripts, read the output, inspect only the bounded tracker scope and its cited source-of-truth docs, then fix the tickets. The scripts are the observation layer for queue, PR, and worker state; the agent does not rediscover that state manually. No manual code search, implementation file reads, one-off gh queries, CI spelunking, deploy checks, log review, security tool runs, or broad repo health checks. If handoff quality depends on information that is not in the tracker, config, cited source-of-truth docs, or script output, leave the exact missing field for To Issues or a human.

Tracker/MCP tools are for applying ticket mutations and reading specific ticket fields that the scripts do not return. Do not use MCP calls to rebuild the same inventory, PR state, dependency frontier, or readiness decisions that the scripts already compute.

Read the full file on GitHub · 430 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago Changed · +24 lines c5b6c0d9a761
  2. 11d ago First seen · 406 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 6d985ea77ea7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ziw-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository zaks-io/skills (3 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 4,713 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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