triage
triage is an agent skill published by mattpocock, listed under building agents. It lives in the mattpocock/skills repository, which has 303,549 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-10-08.
Move issues and external PRs through a state machine of triage roles, categorise, verify, grill if needed, and write agent-ready briefs.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads mattpocock/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add mattpocock/skills
Maintenance
Move issues and external PRs through a state machine of triage roles, categorise, verify, grill if needed, and write agent-ready briefs.
triage compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| triage (this page) | mattpocock | Move issues and external PRs through a state machine of triage roles, categorise, verify, grill if needed, an… | 303,549 | 2026-10-22 |
| claude-handoff(same repository) | mattpocock | Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately. | 303,549 | 2026-10-22 |
| context-engineering | addyosmani | Optimizes agent context setup. Use when starting a new session, when agent output quality degrades, when swit… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
| using-agent-skills | addyosmani | Discovers and invokes agent skills. Use when starting a session, or when you need to decide which skill or wo… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
| agent-platform-inference | Connects to and performs inference with Google Cloud Agent Platform GenAI models, including First-Party Gemin… | 21,580 | 2026-10-25 | |
| agent-platform-skill-registry | Interact with the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Skill Registry to create and search for available skills.… | 21,580 | 2026-10-25 | |
| gemini-agents-api | Manages custom Agent resources on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Use when the user wants to programmatical… | 21,580 | 2026-10-25 |
Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about triage
- What does triage do?
- Move issues and external PRs through a state machine of triage roles, categorise, verify, grill if needed, and write agent-ready briefs.
- How do I install triage?
- Run npx skills add mattpocock/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes triage?
- mattpocock.
- Is triage maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 303,549 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-22. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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