GitHub Issue Workflow

What it does

When your agent uses it

• User asks to resolve
• Close a GitHub issue
• References an issue URL
• Number for implementation

Example prompts

• “Use the github-issue-workflow skill to provide a structured 8-phase workflow for resolving GitHub issues in Claude Code”
• “/github-issue-workflow”

Requirements

• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob, Task, AskUserQuestion, TodoWrite

Workflow steps

8 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Fetch Issue Details
2. 2Analyze Requirements
3. 3Documentation Verification (Context7)
4. 4Implement Solution
5. 5Verify & Test
6. 6Code Review
7. 7Commit and Push
8. 8Create Pull Request

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit fe73fb3. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Write
  • Edit
  • Bash
  • Grep
  • Glob
  • Task
  • AskUserQuestion
  • TodoWrite

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • gh
  • git
  • npm
  • mvn

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use gh, git and npm, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

GitHub Issue Workflow loads about 2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~23k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 104 tokens; SKILL.md has 819 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~104

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~23k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob, Task, AskUserQuestion, TodoWrite

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit at commit fe73fb3, republished under its MIT licence (© giuseppe-trisciuoglio). 819 words, ~1,976 tokens.

name

github-issue-workflow

description

Provides a structured 8-phase workflow for resolving GitHub issues in Claude Code. Covers fetching issue details, analyzing requirements, implementing solutions, verifying correctness, performing code review, committing changes, and creating pull requests. Use when user asks to resolve, implement, work on, fix, or close a GitHub issue, or references an issue URL or number for implementation.

allowed-tools

Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob, Task, AskUserQuestion, TodoWrite

# Verify gh is authenticated
gh auth status || { echo "gh not authenticated — run 'gh auth login' first"; exit 1; }

# Extract issue number from user input (handles "issue #42", "#42", bare number)
ISSUE_REF=$(echo "$1" | grep -oE '[0-9]+' | tail -1)
if [ -z "$ISSUE_REF" ]; then
  echo "No issue number found in input: $1"
  exit 1
fi

# Fetch issue metadata (title, body, labels, assignees, state)
gh issue view "$ISSUE_REF" --json title,body,labels,assignees,state,repositoryUrl

# User: "Resolve issue #42"
gh issue view 42 --json title,labels
# → "Add email validation" (enhancement)

# User confirms requirements → Implement
git checkout -b "feature/42-add-email-validation"
git commit -m "feat(validation): add email validation

Closes #42"
git push -u origin "feature/42-add-email-validation"
gh pr create --body "Closes #42"

© giuseppe-trisciuoglio, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 9 other files (references) in plugins/developer-kit-core/skills/github-issue-workflow of giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit.

• SKILL.md
• references/best-practices.md
• references/commit-examples.md
• references/constraints-warnings.md
• references/examples.md
• references/phase-workflows.md
• references/phases-detailed.md
• references/prerequisites.md
• references/security-protocol.md
• references/test-commands.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit fe73fb3