# Triage Task

> Score an issue or the whole available-work queue on priority, value, and token cost to recommend do-now/good-ROI/defer/skip. Advisory only — never claims, relabels, or reorders anything.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-vanterx-mssql-performance-skills-triage-task`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [vanterx](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/vanterx)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Databases](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/databases)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [vanterx](https://github.com/vanterx)
- **Source:** https://github.com/vanterx/mssql-performance-skills/tree/main/.claude/skills/triage-task

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-vanterx-mssql-performance-skills-triage-task
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Triage Task

An advisory rubric for deciding what's worth an agent's time. This skill
**never mutates repo state** — no labels, no assignees, no comments. It
only produces a recommendation for a human or another agent to act on.

## Inputs

```bash
gh issue list --label "status: available" --state open --json number,title,labels,body
gh issue list --label "status: changes-requested" --assignee "@me" --state open --json number,title,labels
```

## Scoring

For each issue, score three axes:

**Priority (1-5).** Read from the `priority:` label if present, otherwise
estimate from urgency described in the issue body. `priority: high` should
generally dominate the final verdict regardless of the other two axes.

**Value (composite).** Consider:
- Impact if this ships (how many users/workflows does it affect?)
- Leverage (does it unblock other queued work, or is it a dead end?)
- Novelty (is this duplicate/overlapping with another open issue or a
  recently merged PR? Check before scoring — duplicated effort is zero
  value regardless of how good the individual PR is.)
- Tractability (is the ask well-specified enough to execute without a lot
  of back-and-forth, or is it actually a research/discovery task in
  disguise?)

**Token-cost band (S/M/L/XL).** Rough estimate of how much agent context
and how many turns this will take: S = single-file, well-specified fix.
M = a few files, some design judgment. L = cross-cutting change or
non-trivial investigation. XL = probably needs to be broken into smaller
issues before anyone should pick it up — flag this in your output rather
than triaging it as-is.

## Verdict

Combine into one of:
- 🟢 **Do now** — high priority or high value, tractable, reasonable cost.
- 🔵 **Good ROI** — solid value relative to cost, not urgent.
- 🟡 **Defer** — low urgency, or value is unclear until something else
  lands first.
- 🔴 **Skip** — duplicate, out of scope, or cost (XL, ill-specified) far
  exceeds likely value as currently written — recommend the issue be
  split or clarified instead of worked on directly.

## Output format

A short table: issue number, one-line title, priority, value note, cost
band, verdict. End with your top 1-3 recommendations for what to actually
work on next, and a one-line reason for each.

## What this skill must never do

- Never call `gh issue edit`, add/remove labels, change assignees, or
  comment on issues as a side effect of triage.
- Never claim work on the triager's behalf — that's `start_work.sh`'s job,
  driven by the queue order in `AGENT_CONTRACT.md`, not by this skill's opinion.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [vanterx](https://github.com/vanterx)
- **Source:** [vanterx/mssql-performance-skills](https://github.com/vanterx/mssql-performance-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-vanterx-mssql-performance-skills-triage-task
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/vanterx
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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