close-issues SKILL.md skillA
close-issues from checkpickerupper/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add checkpickerupper/skills/close-issues@git:20261021.61c15fbPins git:20261021.61c15fb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- checkpickerupper/skills
- Path
skills/productivity/close-issues/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261021.61c15fb, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 19, 2026
- Size
- 3,074 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Close GitHub issues only with proof. Use every time an issue is about to close or has just closed: before `gh issue close`, before pushing a commit with `Closes #N`, when work looks done, when marking a duplicate, and when someone says drop it or won't fix. Closes through a script that refuses open sub-issues and unticked lines, and records the proof, the duplicate's carried details, the out-of-date evidence or the owner's decision in the body.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Close issues
A closed issue tells everyone the work is finished or deliberately dropped.
A close without proof, or with open work under it, hides that work from every
view, and GitHub does nothing to stop it. Every close in this skill goes
through `scripts/close_issue.py`, which refuses those closes and reads the
issue back afterwards. Never close with a bare `gh issue close`.
<what-to-do>
1. **Check it can close.** Run
`python3 <folder of this SKILL.md>/scripts/close_issue.py ready --repo OWNER/REPO --issue N`.
It lists open sub-issues and unticked checklist lines. Finish each one,
move it under an open parent, or close it with its own reason first.
2. **Pick the reason from the evidence:**
- **Completed.** Read the current code and run the check that proves each
"Done when" line: the passing test, the commit that shipped it, a walk
through the product. The issue's text describes the past; only the check
says it is done now.
`close_issue.py completed --repo R --issue N --proof "<commit url>" --proof "<test and its result>"`
writes the proof under `## Proof` and closes it. A commit with
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add checkpickerupper/skills/close-issues@sha256:43145923669a7624The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.61c15fb, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_5lwwdzgtoupd6tih)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Oct 19, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, more than one a day.
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| git:20261021.61c15fb latest | 2026-10-21 | 61c15fb | 3,074 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.7863a8e | 2026-10-19 | 7863a8e | 2,985 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.84b981b | 2026-10-19 | 84b981b | 2,662 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.df78482 | 2026-10-19 | df78482 | 4,141 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3074 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
checkpickerupper/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5lwwdzgtoupd6tih GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=checkpickerupper/skills/close-issues GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/43145923669a7624c96da423f8a79837e8df4ac35fad6e09a0ccf8cd6fd824d1
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.