triage-helper
Helper for managing unprioritized GitHub issues by suggesting labels, reproduction workflows, and closure criteria.
Install
mkdir -p .claude/skills/triage-helper && curl -L -o skill.zip "https://agentskills.codes/api/skills/download/3793" && unzip -o skill.zip -d .claude/skills/triage-helper && rm skill.zipInstalls to .claude/skills/triage-helper
Activation
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Assistance with triage of unprioritized issues. Use when the user asks for help with triage.Key capabilities
- →Identify unprioritized issues
- →Draft reproduction requests
- →Suggest priority labels
- →Identify good first issues
How it works
It scans open issues for missing priority labels and presents them to the user with actionable suggestions for status and labeling.
Inputs & outputs
When to use triage-helper
- →Identify unprioritized issues in a repo
- →Draft reproduction requests for bugs
- →Suggest priority labels for issues
- →Decide whether to close stale issues
About this skill
When a user asks for help in the CLI:
- Find the latest open issues in the https://github.com/flutter/flutter-intellij/ repo that don't have a priority label.
- If you encounter authentication issues, guide the user to check their
github-mcp-serversetup orgh auth statusdepending on available tools. - Reference
docs/Triaging.mdfor detailed setup instructions. - Consider the most recently updated issues first. Start presenting issues one at a time to the user, with the issue URL and other relevant information.
- For each issue, give suggestions such as:
- Close the issue if it's not relevant anymore (e.g. it's been fixed, the code it's referencing is outdated, etc.)
- Suggest how to reproduce if it looks like it may be easy to reproduce locally
- Ask for a reproduction with a small project if reproduction may be hard locally
- Ask for more information and apply a waiting for response label
- Note a code pointer for the issue if it could be a good first issue for an external contributor
- Suggest a priority and other labels that may be relevant along with reasoning for the priority
- Then wait for user feedback before continuing on to the next issue.
Avoid executing tasks on GitHub directly, such as making comments, applying labels, or closing issues.
There is additional context on our issue triage process in docs/Triaging.md.
When not to use it
- →When the user has not requested triage assistance
- →When the user expects direct GitHub modifications
Prerequisites
Limitations
- →Avoids executing tasks on GitHub directly
- →Requires authentication setup
How it compares
It maintains a user-in-the-loop workflow rather than executing automated triage actions directly on GitHub.
Compared to similar skills
triage-helper side by side with the closest alternatives in the catalog.
| Skill | Installs | Updated | Safety | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| triage-helper (this skill) | 1 | 6mo | No flags | Beginner |
| pr-closeout | 0 | 3mo | No flags | Beginner |
| resolve-conflicts | 81 | 8mo | Review | Intermediate |
| dependency-upgrade | 26 | 5mo | Review | Intermediate |
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