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Batch Bug Shepherd

by microsoft

Batch Bug Shepherd is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in apm.

3.5K stars324 forkson microsoft/apmAdded 2026/08/16+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/15
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Install Batch Bug Shepherd
Copy Batch Bug Shepherd into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/apm/tree/main/.agents/skills/batch-bug-shepherd ~/.claude/skills/batch-bug-shepherd

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/apm.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
.agents/skills/batch-bug-shepherd/SKILL.md in microsoft/apm
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/batch-bug-shepherd
Collection
One of 21 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
Automation — 1523 skills

What Batch Bug Shepherd does

Batch Bug Shepherd automates batch triage of suspected bugs: it fans out subagents, gates bugs against principles, detects existing PRs, opens TDD fixes, and drives PRs to mergeable via review and CI. Use it to triage issues, sweep a bug queue, or drive in-flight community PRs.

Batch Bug Shepherd is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Batch Bug Shepherd comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, codex-cli, context-engineering and github-copilot.

Frequently asked about Batch Bug Shepherd

  • What else does microsoft publish alongside Batch Bug Shepherd?

    Batch Bug Shepherd is one of 21 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/apm, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include APM Issue Autopilot, APM Review Panel and APM Spec Guardian. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Batch Bug Shepherd does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/apm page.

  • How does Batch Bug Shepherd compare to other Automation skills?

    Batch Bug Shepherd ranks #341 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Batch Bug Shepherd against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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