# issue-triage

Triages incoming GitHub issues and external pull requests, scores priority, and sweeps valid tasks onto the Servers V2 project board.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 91595
- 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-triage/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/issue-triage

## What it does

The skill handles intake sorting for `modelcontextprotocol/servers`. It inspects new GitHub issues and filters out misdirected submissions, such as new server listings or SDK questions. Those get closed as `not planned` with pre-defined canned responses. Valid bug reports and feature requests move to the `Incoming` column on project board #43 with a scored priority.

Board mutations rely on the `board-ops` skill, which must be loaded before any write takes place. API operations run via GitHub CLI with an enforced `sleep 8` delay between calls. That prevents tripping secondary rate limits. If a call fails with a 403, the loop stops immediately instead of leaving a half-applied batch.

External pull request manifests are stored strictly in a temporary `mktemp -d` directory so board dumps never stay in the working tree. If an issue is flagged as a vulnerability report, triage halts on the spot to avoid restating security details publicly.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add modelcontextprotocol/servers --skill issue-triage -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-triage/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- sweep valid open issues onto the Servers V2 project board
- close catalog requests and spam with canned responses
- score issue priority and post evaluation comments
- identify duplicate issues and delete their board cards
- generate outside PR manifests for maintainer sign-off

## Example prompts
- Triage new issues and sweep them onto the board
- Triage the PRs and prepare a manifest for review
- Score the priority of issue #4876 using the rubric

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

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---
name: issue-triage
description: "Triage this repo's inflow — sweep unboarded issues onto the Servers V2 board (#43) as Incoming, score Priority with the rubric and post the score, classify outside PRs and spam (server listings, new servers, duplicates, no-ops) and close them with their canned comments, and run the board audit. Use for \"triage new issues\" or \"triage the PRs\"; when scoring an issue's Priority; when answering or closing an outside PR; or when auditing the board for drift."
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# Triaging issues and outside PRs

This repository receives far more outside issues and pull requests than it
opens itself, much of it misdirected (server listings, new servers, questions
for the SDK) and much of it racing (several PRs for the same bug). This skill is
the procedure for all of it: classify first, answer the classes that do not
belong here with a canned response, sweep the rest onto the board unapproved,
and check the board afterwards.

The **rules** it carries out are in [`AGENTS.md`](../../../AGENTS.md), under
**Contributing** and **Issue-driven work style**. The board's IDs, and the
recipes that add, move and delete cards, are in `board-ops`, and only there:
**load `board-ops` before the first board write.** Labels for an issue you file
come from `issue-create`. The plan for the outside-PR backlog is
[`docs/contribution-model.md`](../../../docs/contribution-model.md), "The plan";
[Outside PRs](#outside-prs) below is how it is carried out.

**"Triage new issues" means:** the [class check](#step-0--classify-before-boarding)
and [pass 1](#pass-1--sweep-onto-the-board-no-approval-implied) over every
unboarded open issue, then the [board audit](#the-board-audit). **"Triage the
PRs" means:** snapshot and classify the open outside PRs into a manifest and
stop for a maintainer's review ([Outside PRs](#outside-prs)). Pass 2 and every
close of an outside PR need a human, and neither is done unprompted.

The one-time sweep of the existing backlog is tracked in #4875 (#4876 for
issues, #4877 for PRs). It uses this skill's classes and responses, plus the
conventions that tracker sets for the sweep, such as a close label and a
reference to #4875 in each close comment.

## Outward-facing actions

Every label, comment and close lands on someone else's issue or PR, and a
reporter is notified of each one. So:

- **A batch of closes happens only after a maintainer has reviewed the
  manifest** that lists each item, its class, and the issue it will point at.
  A wrong class is cheap to fix in a file and expensive to fix after a
  notification went out. Closing a single item the maintainer named is fine.
- **Pace every write loop** by `AGENTS.md` **Pacing GitHub writes**, and
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