# issue-create

Walks an issue from duplicate check to a board card with status and priority. Useful when work turns up mid-task and needs its own issue.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 91547
- Author: modelcontextprotocol
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/issue-create/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/issue-create

## What it does

The skill lays out seven steps, and an issue is not created until every one is done. It starts with a search across all states, not just open ones: a closed issue is still a duplicate, since it may have been completed, rejected or superseded. Search with two or three phrasings — the symptom, the server name, the error text — and check the board too, where approved work already has a card.

Then the labels: `v2` always, exactly one of `bug` / `enhancement` / `documentation` / `chore` / `question`, plus `server-<name>` when the issue concerns a single server. Labels and milestone go on at create time, never by backfilling. An unlabeled issue shows up in no `v2`-filtered query, and an unmilestoned one drops out of release planning quietly. Milestones are release buckets, so you pick by when the work ships rather than by size.

The board card on Servers V2 (#43), its Status and its Priority need board IDs, and only the `board-ops` skill holds them. Load it before step 5 — that is step 5's first action. Priority (Urgent / High / Medium / Low) is a board field, not a label; when the call is not obvious, the skill points to the scored rubric in `issue-triage`. Draft cards are off the table: every board item is a real GitHub issue.

## Requirements
- Works with: GitHub

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add modelcontextprotocol/servers --skill issue-create -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/issue-create/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/issue-create/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add modelcontextprotocol/servers --skill issue-create -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/issue-create/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add modelcontextprotocol/servers --skill issue-create -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/issue-create/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install modelcontextprotocol/servers issue-create
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/issue-create/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add modelcontextprotocol/servers --skill issue-create -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers --path .claude/skills/issue-create
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/issue-create/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add modelcontextprotocol/servers --skill issue-create -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/issue-create/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- check whether the issue already exists, closed ones included
- pick a type label instead of forcing docs into enhancement
- set the milestone by ship date rather than guessing
- add the board card and give it a status and priority
- file an issue for work found while doing something else

## Example prompts
- file an issue about server-filesystem crashing on an empty file
- check if this error already has an issue, and create one with labels and a milestone if not
- found a bug in server-git while editing — open a separate issue for it

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: issue-create
description: "Create a tracked issue in this repo end to end — duplicate check, v2 label, type label, server-scope label, milestone, board card, Status and Priority. Use when asked to file, create, open or raise an issue; when picking its labels or its milestone; when checking whether one already exists; or when work discovered mid-task needs an issue of its own."
disable-model-invocation: false
---

# Creating an issue

An issue **you** create is not "created" until every step below is done. A
label is a repo tag, the milestone is a release bucket, and the board is a
separate org project: `--label v2` does **not** add a board card, and adding a
card does **not** set a Status or a Priority.

| # | Step | Applies |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **`v2` label** | Always |
| 2 | **Type label**: exactly one of `bug` / `enhancement` / `documentation` / `chore` / `question` | Always |
| 3 | **Scope label**: `server-<name>` | Only when the issue concerns **one** server |
| 4 | **Milestone** | Always |
| 5 | **A card on the Servers V2 board (#43)** | Always |
| 6 | **Status** on that card: `Todo` (or `In Progress` if you start now) | Always |
| 7 | **Priority** on that card | Always |

The rules behind each row are in [`AGENTS.md`](../../../AGENTS.md) under
**Issue-driven work style**; this skill is the procedure. Rows 5–7 need the
board's IDs, which only the `board-ops` skill holds, so **load `board-ops`
before step 5**; it is step 5's first action.

Set the labels and milestone at **create time**, never by backfilling: an
unlabeled issue appears in no `v2`-filtered query, and an unmilestoned one drops
out of release planning silently.

**Never create a duplicate.** **Never create a draft card** (a board card with
no issue number): every board item is a real GitHub issue. The one exception, a
private security advisory's `[GHSA-…]` card, is the `security-advisory` skill's.

## 0. Check for an existing issue first

Search **all** states, not just open. A closed issue is still a duplicate: it
may have been completed, rejected, or filed and superseded, and refiling it
loses that history. When one matches, the call is whether to reopen it or file
genuinely new work; either way you need to have seen it.

```sh
gh issue list --repo modelcontextprotocol/servers --state all --limit 200 \
````
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