# tendrillable

Ranks open GitHub issues by how well an agent can solve them without follow-up questions. Use it to find focused, verifiable coding tasks in a repository.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 203
- Author: Ivy-Interactive
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Ivy-Interactive/Ivy-Tendril/tree/HEAD/skills/tendrillable/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-15
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/tendrillable

## What it does

Give the skill a GitHub repository and the number of results you want. It looks for open issues that call for code changes, describe a clear outcome, and can be handled without outside decisions. The result is a ranked list of issue links; it can return fewer entries when the backlog has too few matches.

The skill retrieves issues with `gh`, filters some candidates by labels and assignees, then scores the rest against its criteria and checks for linked pull requests. GitHub CLI authentication must pass `gh auth status`; otherwise, the instructions tell the user to run `gh auth login` and stop. Invoke it as `/tendrillable <githubUrl> <amount>`, using either a repository URL or `owner/repo`.

## Requirements
- Works with: GitHub

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Ivy-Interactive/Ivy-Tendril --skill tendrillable -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Ivy-Interactive/Ivy-Tendril --skill tendrillable -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Ivy-Interactive/Ivy-Tendril --skill tendrillable -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Ivy-Interactive/Ivy-Tendril tendrillable
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Ivy-Interactive/Ivy-Tendril --skill tendrillable -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Ivy-Interactive/Ivy-Tendril --path skills/tendrillable
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Ivy-Interactive/Ivy-Tendril --skill tendrillable -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/Ivy-Interactive/Ivy-Tendril/tree/HEAD/skills/tendrillable/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find open issues an agent can tackle without follow-up questions
- filter out tasks with unclear expected outcomes
- separate focused code changes from documentation and support requests
- remove issues that already have a linked pull request

## Example prompts
- Find five agent-ready issues in this repository and return their links: `/tendrillable owner/repo 5`.
- Rank ten suitable open issues from `https://github.com/owner/repo`: `/tendrillable https://github.com/owner/repo 10`.
- Find issues in this project that an agent can handle without asking questions: `/tendrillable owner/repo 3`.

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

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---
name: tendrillable
description: >-
  Find "Tendrillable" GitHub issues - open, recent, code-requiring issues that an agent can plan and one-shot WITHOUT asking clarifying questions, with high probability of success. Classifies a repo's open issues against the Tendrillable rubric and prints a ranked list of issue URLs. Use when asked to find tendrillable issues, source candidates for Tendril, or triage a repo's backlog for one-shottable work. Usage: tendrillable <githubUrl> <amount>.
---

# tendrillable

Given a GitHub repository, find issues that are **Tendrillable**: an open, recent issue that an agent can read, plan, and one-shot into a working code change - with no clarifying questions and a high probability of success. Output a ranked list of issue URLs.

## Invocation

```
/tendrillable <githubUrl> <amount>
```

- `<githubUrl>` - repo URL (`https://github.com/owner/repo`) or `owner/repo`.
- `<amount>` - how many Tendrillable issue URLs to return (default: `10`).

This is a **high-precision** classifier. Returning fewer than `<amount>` is correct and expected when the backlog doesn't have enough qualifying issues. **Never pad the list with marginal issues** - a false positive that an agent can't actually one-shot is worse than a short list.

## The Tendrillable definition

> A Tendrillable issue can be **fully resolved from the repo + the issue text alone** - no human in the loop, no missing context, and no judgment call about *what* to build. The agent cannot ask questions, so anything the issue leaves implicit must be inferable from the issue and the codebase.

### Necessary conditions - ALL must hold
1. **Open** - and not already solved-in-flight (not assigned, no linked/"fixes #" PR, no "fixed in <sha>" comment).
2. **Requires code** - the fix means writing/changing source code. Excludes docs-only, questions, support requests, dependency-bump/release chores, CI-config-only asks.
3. **Unambiguous outcome** - there is effectively one correct end-state. A bug with steps-to-reproduce + expected-vs-actual is ideal; a feature qualifies only if the desired behavior is fully specified.
4. **Localized** - small blast radius (ideally one subsystem / a handful of files). Excludes "redesign X", broad refactors, cross-cutting rewrites.
5. **Verifiable** - success is checkable, ideally by a test the agent can write/run or an obvious behavioral check.
6. **Self-contained** - no external blockers: no credentials/API keys/paid services, no upstream wait, no product/design decision, no special hardware to reproduce.

### Disqualifiers - ANY one fails the issue regardless of score
- An active debate thread (multiple proposed approaches, maintainer disagreement) or labels like `needs discussion`, `rfc`, `wontfix`, `question`, `invalid`, `duplicate`.
- Vague symptom with no reproduction ("crashes sometimes", "feels slow").
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