How do I install the Github Issues skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add curie-eng/github-issues in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Github Issues safe to use?

This skill has not completed SkillMD's automated safety review yet. SkillMD never runs a skill's scripts for you; review the SKILL.md before installing.

Which AI agents work with Github Issues?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Github Issues free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

Who published Github Issues?

curie-eng (@curie-eng) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Github Issues by curie-eng — Agent Skill

Name: Github Issues
Author: curie-eng

Github Issues

Read, summarize, and triage GitHub issues and pull requests for a repository using the authenticated GitHub MCP server. Invoke whenever the user asks about open issues, wants a repo's issues summarized or triaged, asks to find issues by label or author, or asks to draft an issue.

curie-eng 0d154d6 1.6 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

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GitHub issue triage

When to run

The user asks about a repository's issues or pull requests — to list open issues, summarize them, find ones by label/assignee/author, or draft a new issue for review.

How to answer

Identify the repository (owner/repo). Ask if the user did not name one.
Call the github server's tools:
- list/search issues to pull the current open set,
- fetch a single issue when the user asks about one in particular.
Summarize plainly: title, number, author, labels, and a one-line gist. Group by label or priority when triaging.
When asked to draft an issue, write the title and body and show it for the user to confirm — do not create it unless the user explicitly says to.

Notes

github is the off-the-shelf @modelcontextprotocol/server-github stdio MCP server, declared in this bundle's .mcp.json. It authenticates with a GitHub personal access token read from GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN in the sandbox environment. That token is NOT in the bundle: you forward it at launch with curie skill up --secret GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN (see the README), which passes the variable by name into the container the same way model credentials are forwarded. A read-scoped token is enough for listing and reading; creating an issue needs repo/issues write scope.

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