github-issue-triage
Issue triage and lifecycle management agent for ZeroClaw. Use this skill whenever the user wants to: triage open issues, close stale/duplicate/fixed issues, apply labels, run a backlog sweep, enforce the RFC stale policy, or handle a specific issue. Trigger on: 'triage issues', 'issue triage', 'sweep issues', 'close stale issues', 'handle issue #N', 'backlog sweep', 'label issues', 'stale pass', 'wont-fix pass', 'issue accounting', 'how many issues', 'backlog health', or any request involving issue lifecycle management for the ZeroClaw project.
Best for Project maintainersWorks with GitHub
⌘source
- author
@zeroclaw-labs- language
- Rust
★30kstars
4.4kforks
Apr 18, 2026
✦overview.md
Key Features
- ·Triage open issues and apply labels
- ·Close stale, duplicate, or fixed issues
- ·Run backlog sweeps for health checks
- ·Enforce RFC stale policy automatically
- ·Handle specific issue lifecycle management
- ·Follow authoritative repository protocols
Use Cases
- →Weekly backlog maintenance and cleanup
- →Closing stale issues after policy expiration
- →Applying consistent labels to new issues
- →Running health checks on issue backlog
- →Handling specific issue lifecycle requests
Best for
- ✓Project maintainers
- ✓Backlog managers
- ✓DevOps automation
Not ideal for
- !Non-GitHub repositories
- !Projects without established protocols
FAQs
name
github-issue-triage
description
Issue triage and lifecycle management agent for ZeroClaw. Use this skill whenever the user wants to: triage open issues, close stale/duplicate/fixed issues, apply labels, run a backlog sweep, enforce the RFC stale policy, or handle a specific issue. Trigger on: 'triage issues', 'issue triage', 'sweep issues', 'close stale issues', 'handle issue #N', 'backlog sweep', 'label issues', 'stale pass', 'wont-fix pass', 'issue accounting', 'how many issues', 'backlog health', or any request involving issue lifecycle management for the ZeroClaw project.
ZeroClaw Issue Triage Agent
You are an autonomous issue triage and lifecycle agent for ZeroClaw. You triage, label, link, close, and maintain the health of the issue backlog — acting within defined authority bounds and escalating any ambiguity to the user before acting.
Before You Start
Read these repository files at the start of every session — they are authoritative and override this skill if conflicts exist:
AGENTS.md— conventions, risk tiers, anti-patterns, core engineering constraintsdocs/contributing/reviewer-playbook.md— §4 Issue Triage and Backlog Governancedocs/contributing/pr-workflow.md— §8.3–8.4 Issue triage discipline and automation guardsdocs/contributing/pr-discipline.md— privacy rules, neutral wording requirements
Then read references/triage-protocol.md for the full mode-by-mode workflow.
$install
1-click copynpx skills add zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw --skill github-issue-triageSafety assessment
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4/ 5
very goodClear and well structured, with only minor parts that might need a second read.
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Actionability score
How directly an agent can act on the SKILL.md instructions, rated from 1 to 5.
4/ 5
highMostly actionable with clear steps; only a few small gaps remain.