issue:refine SKILL.md skillA

issue:refine from bendrucker/claude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add bendrucker/claude/issue:refine@git:20261030.9edc83d

Pins git:20261030.9edc83d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
bendrucker/claude
Path
plugins/issue/skills/refine/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
9
Latest version
git:20261030.9edc83d, committed Oct 30, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 8, 2026
Size
6,324 bytes
Repository stars
18
License
MIT

Refining issues with technical context and structured details. Use when asked to refine, draft, or write up an issue, including expanding a brief bug, feature, refactor, or spike (timeboxed investigation) description into a detailed issue suitable for developers and AI agents.

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

# Issue Refinement

## Arguments

Parse `$ARGUMENTS`:

- `--type bug|feature|refactor|spike`: use that type's guide. Default: infer the type per [Issue Types](#issue-types).
- `--compact`: write the trivial body per [Section Selection](#section-selection), still with frontmatter. Default: size the body to the issue.

## Issue Types

| Type | When to Use | Guide |
|------|-------------|-------|
| Bug | Something is broken | `bug.md` |
| Feature | New capability | `feature.md` |
| Refactor | Internal improvement, no behavior change | `refactor.md` |
| Spike | Timeboxed investigation; output is a recommendation, not a shipped change | `spike.md` |

## Workflow

Read the type guide, gather context from code and related issues, and draft the refinement. Write it to `tmp/issue-<slug>.md` and output it for approval. After approval, hand the file to the platform skill (for Linear, `linear:linear`), which owns all save mechanics, including mapping frontmatter to tracker fields. On GitHub, a screenshot the body references by local path goes on `gh issue create --attach`, per `github:attach`.

## Output Structure
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add bendrucker/claude/issue:refine@sha256:cebc230b596c9ee7

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261030.9edc83d, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Jul 8, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 14 days.

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git:20261030.9edc83d latest2026-10-30 9edc83d 6,324 BA view · diff
git:20261030.2367b242026-10-30 2367b24 6,173 BA view · diff
git:20261030.03f71552026-10-30 03f7155 5,891 BA view · diff
git:20261018.6d093752026-10-18 6d09375 6,283 BA view · diff
git:20260902.80b12772026-09-02 80b1277 6,194 BA view · diff
git:20260728.117b0102026-07-28 117b010 6,079 BA view · diff
git:20260727.14c22cf2026-07-27 14c22cf 4,450 BA view · diff
git:20260722.09748ac2026-07-22 09748ac 5,603 BA view · diff
git:20260708.7c011962026-07-08 7c01196 5,787 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6324 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

GitHub

bendrucker/claude · 18 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pwaknsnfsmz4hd2w
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bendrucker/claude/issue:refine
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cebc230b596c9ee7d980c7c7803fe7979854df2150d89863facddceb85269b6e

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