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create-issue

Automatically creates GitHub issues for tasks, bugs, or feature requests based on existing repository templates.

Install

mkdir -p .claude/skills/create-issue && curl -L -o skill.zip "https://agentskills.codes/api/skills/download/3850" && unzip -o skill.zip -d .claude/skills/create-issue && rm skill.zip

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Activation

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Create GitHub issues using repository templates. Use when the user asks to create an issue, bug report, feature request, task, spike, epic, or UX requirement. Also use when the user describes a problem, bug, enhancement, or work item that should be tracked. Also use when the user asks to update, query, or view an existing GitHub issue. Also use when the user wants to find, search, list, or discover issues — assigned to them, open for their team, recently active, or matching a keyword. Supports both English and Spanish input.
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Intermediate

Key capabilities

  • Create GitHub issues using templates
  • Update existing GitHub issues
  • Query status of issues
  • Find issues by assignment or keyword
  • Detect issue context from git branches

How it works

The skill detects the user's intent, identifies the appropriate issue template, and interacts with GitHub via the CLI to create or query issues.

Inputs & outputs

You give it
User request to file a bug or search for issues
You get back
Created GitHub issue or list of matching issues

When to use create-issue

  • Creating a bug report issue
  • Opening a feature request ticket
  • Documenting a new UX requirement

About create-issue

Interprets user requests to create structured issue reports. It utilizes repository templates to ensure that bug reports, feature requests, and spikes conform to project standards.

Create GitHub issues using repository templates. Use when the user asks to create an issue, bug report, feature request, task, spike, epic, or UX requirement. Also use when the user describes a problem, bug, enhancement, or work item that should be tracked. Supports both English and Spanish input.

When not to use it

  • When the user is not working within the dotCMS/core repository
  • When the request does not involve GitHub issue management

Prerequisites

GitHub CLI (gh)

Limitations

  • Requires specific repository templates
  • Depends on GitHub CLI authentication

How it compares

Unlike manual GitHub web navigation, this skill automates template selection, field population, and branch-based context detection.

Compared to similar skills

create-issue side by side with the closest alternatives in the catalog.

SkillInstallsUpdatedSafetyDifficulty
create-issue (this skill)14moReviewIntermediate
github-manage69moReviewBeginner
agent-project-board-sync06moReviewIntermediate
tbd05moReviewIntermediate

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