pick-next-issue SKILL.md skillA

pick-next-issue from tobihagemann/turbo is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add tobihagemann/turbo/pick-next-issue@git:20260927.8a693f4

Pins git:20260927.8a693f4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
tobihagemann/turbo
Path
claude/skills/pick-next-issue/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260927.8a693f4, committed Sep 27, 2026
First version recorded
May 8, 2026
Size
2,450 bytes
Repository stars
418
License
MIT

Fetch and rank open GitHub issues by community engagement, present the top 3 candidates, and plan implementation for the selected issue. Use when the user asks to "pick next issue", "next issue", "which issue should I work on", "top issues", "most popular issues", "prioritize issues", or "what should I work on next".

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

# Pick Next Issue

Rank open GitHub issues by engagement and plan the selected issue.

## Step 1: Fetch and Rank Issues

Run `gh issue list` to fetch open issues with engagement data:

```bash
gh issue list --state open --json number,title,body,url,reactionGroups,comments,labels,createdAt --limit 50
```

Calculate an engagement score for each issue:

- **Reactions score**: Sum all reaction counts from `reactionGroups` (thumbs up, heart, hooray, etc.). Weight thumbs-up (`THUMBS_UP`) reactions 2x since they signal explicit demand.
- **Comments score**: Count of comments on the issue.
- **Engagement score**: `(weighted reactions) + comments`

Sort issues by engagement score descending.

## Step 2: Present Top 3

Present the top 3 issues in a numbered list. For each issue, show:

1. **Title** with issue number and link
2. **Labels** (if any)
3. **Engagement**: reaction breakdown and comment count
4. **Created**: date
5. **First paragraph** of the issue body (truncate if long)

If fewer than 3 open issues exist, present all of them.

If no open issues exist, inform the user and stop.

## Step 3: User Picks an Issue
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add tobihagemann/turbo/pick-next-issue@sha256:492a17c4c1270fbc

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260927.8a693f4, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_v2nihbjqvhxtrtdm.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_v2nihbjqvhxtrtdm)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 8, 2026 and Sep 27, 2026, about one every 142 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260927.8a693f4 latest2026-09-27 8a693f4 2,450 BA view · diff
git:20260508.42491832026-05-08 4249183 2,445 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 (2450 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

tobihagemann/turbo · 418 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_v2nihbjqvhxtrtdm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tobihagemann/turbo/pick-next-issue
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/492a17c4c1270fbc2156d64d40b2dda3eaf94089532c4c2e1a73eab6bba9d043

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.

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