Systemic Issue Triage
Systemic Issue Triage is an agent skill (a SKILL.md file) from Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai. Trigger: new issue, bug report, triage, backlog, issue flood, community report, root cause, dead-end, blocked user. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode and has 7,582 GitHub stars across a repository of 4 listed skills.
- Multi-skill repo
- Testing & QA
- Actively maintained
Add this skill
Claude
Claude Code loads skills from ~/.claude/skills/ (all projects) or .claude/skills/ (one project):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai.git
cp -r gentle-ai/internal/assets/skills/systemic-issue-triage ~/.claude/skills/systemic-issue-triage # personal, or .claude/skills in a projectIn the Claude apps, zip the systemic-issue-triage folder and upload it under Customize > Skills > + > Upload a skill (code execution must be on).
ChatGPT / Codex
Codex reads skills from .agents/skills/ in a repo or ~/.agents/skills/ for every project:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai.git
cp -r gentle-ai/internal/assets/skills/systemic-issue-triage .agents/skills/systemic-issue-triage # repo; ~/.agents/skills for all projectsStandalone skills also load in the ChatGPT desktop app.
Cursor
Cursor loads skills from .cursor/skills/ (or ~/.cursor/skills/) and also reads .claude/skills/:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai.git
cp -r gentle-ai/internal/assets/skills/systemic-issue-triage .cursor/skills/systemic-issue-triage # project; ~/.cursor/skills for all projectsSource (checked Oct 7, 2026): code.claude.com/docs/en/skills (opens in a new tab), support.claude.com/en/articles/12512180-using-skills-in-claude (opens in a new tab), learn.chatgpt.com/docs/build-skills (opens in a new tab), cursor.com/docs/context/skills (opens in a new tab)
What this skill does
Trigger: new issue, bug report, triage, backlog, issue flood, community report, root cause, dead-end, blocked user. Attack issues by root class, never one-by-one; fixes must shrink the system, not grow it. Use when triaging incoming issues, planning fixes for a backlog, or deciding how to respond to any bug report. The failure mode this skill exists to prevent: fixing symptoms one-by-one until the system becomes over-engineered machinery that grows exponentially and nobody can maintain.
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What is the Systemic Issue Triage skill?
Systemic Issue Triage is an agent skill (a SKILL.md file) from Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai. Trigger: new issue, bug report, triage, backlog, issue flood, community report, root cause, dead-end, blocked user. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode and has 7,582 GitHub stars across a repository of 4 listed skills. Its SKILL.md lives at github.com/Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai/internal/assets/skills/systemic-issue-triage.
How do I install the Systemic Issue Triage skill?
Copy the systemic-issue-triage folder (the one containing SKILL.md) into ~/.claude/skills/ for Claude Code, .agents/skills/ for Codex or .cursor/skills/ for Cursor. The agent picks it up automatically when a task matches its description.
Is the Systemic Issue Triage skill free?
Yes. The repository is open source under the MIT license.
Is Systemic Issue Triage maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Oct 7, 2026. Its latest release is v4.0.0. appsgit only lists skills from repositories with a commit in the last six months.