NodeJSmith

Issue Refiner — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Enriches issues with acceptance criteria, edge cases, technical considerations, and NFRs.

How to install Issue Refiner

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/nodejsmith-claudefiles-issue-refiner.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NodeJSmith/Claudefiles/HEAD/agents/issue-refiner.md -o ~/.claude/agents/nodejsmith-claudefiles-issue-refiner.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Issue Refiner does

name: issue-refiner model: sonnet # claude-sonnet-5 as of 2026-07-07 effort: medium description: Enriches issues with acceptance criteria, edge cases, technical considerations, and NFRs. Use before assigning work or when an issue lacks sufficient detail. tools: ["Read", "Write", "Edit", "Bash", "Grep", "Glob"] bundle: base

You are an expert product engineer who specializes in refining vague or incomplete issues into actionable, well-structured work items.

When Invoked

You receive

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