# om-auto-manage-issues

This skill improves existing tracker issues with SDLC labels, clearer descriptions, and readiness checks. Run it on one issue or a filtered batch.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 3200 installs · ★ 251
- Author: open-mercato
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/open-mercato/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/om-auto-manage-issues/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/om-auto-manage-issues

## What it does

The skill applies missing category, priority, and risk labels based on `SDLC.md`, leaving existing labels in place. When an issue has little text or only a title and screenshot, it uses the image and brief text to clarify the description while keeping the reporter’s original wording in a collapsed section. It posts the agent’s interpretation as a comment.

Each issue is checked against the Definition of Ready in `SDLC.md`, with missing items called out. Implementation-prep analysis reads code; it runs by default for a single issue and is off for batches unless enabled. The skill also checks feature issues for a covering spec. With `--write-missing-specs`, it delegates spec creation and links the result to the issue.

It changes issue labels, bodies, and comments, but does not create issues or edit repository files. Issues with another actor’s active claim or a repository hold label are skipped. Use `--dry-run` to report proposed changes without applying them. Batch selection can be filtered by state, label, or author. The project’s `SDLC.md` is needed for its label rules and readiness criteria.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add open-mercato/skills --skill om-auto-manage-issues -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add open-mercato/skills --skill om-auto-manage-issues -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add open-mercato/skills --skill om-auto-manage-issues -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install open-mercato/skills om-auto-manage-issues
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/om-auto-manage-issues/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add open-mercato/skills --skill om-auto-manage-issues -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/open-mercato/skills --path skills/om-auto-manage-issues
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add open-mercato/skills --skill om-auto-manage-issues -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/open-mercato/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/om-auto-manage-issues/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- apply missing SDLC labels to tracker issues
- clarify a sparse issue using its screenshot
- check an issue against the Definition of Ready
- find feature issues without a covering spec
- add root-cause and impact notes for the next person

## Example prompts
- Bring issue `42` up to the rules in `SDLC.md` and check whether it is ready for implementation.
- Review open issues labelled `bug`, clarify brief descriptions using their screenshots, and leave repository files unchanged.
- Check a filtered batch for missing labels and specs without applying changes.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: om-auto-manage-issues
description: Bring existing tracker issues up to standard without implementing anything — applies missing SDLC labels, clarifies laconic issues (analyzing attached screenshots), posts a read-only implementation-prep analysis, checks each issue against SDLC.md's Definition of Ready (READY_STATUS, not-ready comment), and flags feature issues lacking a covering spec (optionally authoring one with --write-missing-specs). Single issue or a batch (last ~25 open, worst-described first). Idempotent, claim-aware.
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# Auto Manage Issues (enrich existing issues)

Raise the quality of issues that **already exist**, in bulk or one at a time,
without touching repository source. For each issue in scope this skill: applies
the SDLC labels it is missing (one category, one priority, one risk — inferred per
`SDLC.md`); and, when the issue is **laconic** (a near-empty body, or just a title
and a screenshot), analyzes the attached screenshot with the terse text, clarifies
the wording in the body while preserving the reporter's original text, and posts
the agent's understanding as a comment so a human can confirm or correct it. It
also checks every issue against the Definition of Ready in `SDLC.md`, when the
repository carries one, and names what is still missing, so implementation
skills never guess around a gap.

It is the read-write counterpart to `om-prepare-issue` (which files new issues):
this skill never creates issues and never edits repository files — it mutates only
labels, issue bodies, and comments. It is **idempotent** and **claim-aware**. For
deep design work hand off to `om-spec-writing`; to implement, hand off to
`om-auto-fix-issue` (it handles both bugs and features).

## Arguments

- `{issueId}` (optional) — a single issue number or URL to manage. When omitted, the skill selects a **batch** (see `--limit` and filters below).
- `--limit <n>` (optional) — batch size when no id is given. Default: `25`.
- `--state <open|closed|all>` (optional) — batch state filter. Default: `open`.
- `--label <name>` (optional, repeatable) — restrict the batch to issues carrying (or, with `-<name>`, missing) a label.
- `--author <login>` (optional) — restrict the batch to one author.
- `--relabel-only` (optional) — apply missing SDLC labels but skip the screenshot/wording enrichment and the implementation-prep analysis.
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