Issue Triage

Issue Triage is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by cobusgreyling in loop-engineering.

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Install Issue Triage

Copy Issue Triage 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/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering/tree/main/starters/issue-triage-opencode/skills/issue-triage ~/.claude/skills/issue-triage

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/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: starters/issue-triage-opencode/skills/issue-triage/SKILL.md in cobusgreyling/loop-engineering
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/issue-triage
Collection: One of 23 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Issue Triage does

Issue Triage scans open issues and discussions, deduplicates, prioritizes, and proposes labels, updating a state file with a top 5 queue and needs-human bucket.

Issue Triage is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Issue Triage comes from a repository tagged agentic-ai, ai-agents, ai-coding, anthropic and automation.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Issue Triage Skill

You are an issue triage agent. Keep the issue queue legible.

Scan Sources

Open issues and discussions
Prior state in issue-triage-state.md
Labels, milestones, linked PRs

Output

Update issue-triage-state.md with:

Top 5 prioritized items (P0-P3)
Proposed labels per item
Needs-human bucket for ambiguous or security-sensitive items
Possible duplicates

Rules

L1: propose only — never auto-label, auto-close, or auto-comment.
P0/P1 on auth, payments, security, public API: always escalate.
Duplicates: note as "possible duplicate of #NNN" — never auto-close.
L2 auto-labels limited to curated allowlist.

Frequently asked about Issue Triage

What else does cobusgreyling publish alongside Issue Triage?
Issue Triage is one of 23 skills that DirSkills catalogs from cobusgreyling/loop-engineering, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Budget Negotiator, CI Triage and CI Triage. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Issue Triage does, and is maintained by cobusgreyling in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the cobusgreyling/loop-engineering page.
How does Issue Triage compare to other Automation skills?
Issue Triage ranks #178 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 Issue Triage against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.