github-label-scoutlisted
Install: claude install-skill barobaonguyen/ai-automation-skills
# GitHub Label Scout
Use this skill when a user wants to find claimable open issues in a public repo by label - "good first issue", "help wanted", "bug" - without wasting time on issues someone already owns. It hits the public REST API, filters out the pull requests the issues endpoint mixes in, and skips anything with an assignee so you only see open lanes. No token is needed for low volume; set one in the env only to raise the rate limit.
## When to invoke
- User says: "find issues by label" / "good first issue scout" / "skip assigned issues" / "open-source contribution finder"
- Code in the conversation uses: GitHub issue triage, label filtering, or contribution discovery.
## When NOT to invoke
- The user wants paid bounty boards (use [[algora-bounty-scout]] for that).
- The user already has one specific issue and only needs implementation help.
## Concrete example
User input:
```text
Show me unassigned "good first issue" tickets in octocat/Hello-World.
```
Output:
```python
# Copy assets/scout.py into your project, then:
from scout import scout_label
for row in scout_label("octocat/Hello-World", "good first issue"):
print(f"#{row['number']} {row['title']} ({row['comments']} comments) {row['url']}")
# #142 Fix typo in README (1 comments) https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/142
# #156 Add retry to client (0 comments) https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/156
```
The helper reads an optional `GITHUB_TOKEN` from the environment purely to rais