fable-new-issue

fable-new-issue

Delegate issue drafting to a Fable 5.1 subagent, then file it from the main agent. The subagent only researches and composes. It never files, edits files, or posts to GitHub; the main agent handles filing and all follow-on actions.

Input

Same as new-issue:

• A description of the bug/feature/task to file.
• Nothing: derive from the current conversation. The main agent first writes a faithful summary of the discussed bug/design/follow-up (with any file paths or symbols already named) to a scratchpad file and hands that path to the subagent as the source description.
• Optionally owner/repo or a repo path when the issue belongs elsewhere.

Steps

1. Resolve the drafting procedure

Locate the new-issue SKILL.md the subagent must follow, preferring the first that exists:

1. <repo>/.claude/skills/new-issue/SKILL.md (if it exists)
2. ~/.claude/skills/new-issue/SKILL.md
3. Any other install location, searched by name, e.g. ls ~/.claude/plugins/*/skills/new-issue/SKILL.md.

Record the absolute path. If none of these resolves, stop and tell the user.

If the input is conversation-derived, write the scratchpad summary now (see Input). Do NOT pre-research or pre-draft the issue yourself; the subagent owns steps 1–6 of the procedure up to (but not including) the gh issue create call.

2. Dispatch the Fable 5.1 drafting subagent

Load the fable-dispatch skill before dispatching: it owns the dispatch path and the dispatch-hygiene rules in its section 7 (read-only prompt, snapshot/diff, retry once then report). Dispatch per its ladder; on the Agent-tool path, call the Agent tool with:

• subagent_type: Plan
• model: fable
• effort: high unless the user asked for another tier, with the other Agent parameters per fable-dispatch section 2; filing waits for the draft
• description: Draft issue: <short topic>
• prompt: hand it everything needed to draft independently:
  • The user's description verbatim (or the scratchpad summary path), the working directory, and the target repo if not the current checkout.
  • Instruct it to read the SKILL.md at the recorded path and execute its steps 1 through 6 exactly, through full body composition per the step-6 template.
  • It must STOP before filing: no gh issue create, no gh issue edit, no comments posted, no file edits. State the full read-only rule of fable-dispatch section 7 in the prompt. Read-only gh calls (gh repo view, gh label list) are expected and allowed; the two duplicate searches are the caller's, per step 2.
  • Return as its final message: (a) any duplicate found (URL + why it matches), with no draft; (b) otherwise the complete issue draft — exact title with [C<score>] prefix and the full body per the template — plus one line stating which baseline claims were traced against, and any unfiled follow-up candidates from the scope check.

On every path, first resolve REPO and DEFAULT per new-issue step 1, then run the two duplicate searches of new-issue step 1 yourself (gh issue list --repo "$REPO" --state open --search "<keywords>" and the gh pr list form) before the snapshot, and embed their output in the prompt inside the fable-dispatch section 7 untrusted-data block, with one line telling the subagent to take it as step 1's search results and never to run either search; a failed search is embedded as that failure. Then, when REPO is the checkout's origin, run the fable-dispatch section 3 caller-run fetch before the snapshot and tell the subagent it is done: it executes steps 1 through 6 exactly except the step 1 searches and that fetch, which it skips, and it never runs git fetch. On the shim, the --allowedTools list is those gh reads plus the read-only git forms the procedure runs: "Bash(gh repo view <REPO> --json nameWithOwner)" "Bash(gh repo view <REPO> --json defaultBranchRef --jq .defaultBranchRef.name)" "Bash(gh label list --repo <REPO>)" "Bash(git show *)" "Bash(git grep *)" "Bash(git log *)" "Bash(git rev-parse *)". The prompt lists each allowed gh command verbatim, as that section states. --add-dir names the directories fable-dispatch section 3 gives for the recorded SKILL.md path and, for a conversation-derived input, the scratchpad directory. When REPO is another repository, add the cross-repository clone entries and directory from that section.

When the result arrives, save the draft verbatim to a scratchpad file immediately. Then run the section 7 snapshot diff and record the model that served, the tier, and whether the tier was honored, per fable-dispatch section 6; step 5's footer uses these values.

3. Duplicate gate

If the subagent reported a duplicate, stop and surface it, and offer to update/comment on the existing issue instead. Nothing is filed.

4. Spot-check the draft

Before filing, spot-check the draft's load-bearing file:line citations against the code and confirm the body meets the new-issue bar: complexity rationale as first line matching the title prefix, Problem/Goal/Approach/Acceptance criteria all concrete, a ## Plain simple English section after the criteria (under 55 words, ASD-STE100, no paths or symbols), no time/effort estimates, plain-simple-English (ASD-STE100) title. Fix small inaccuracies yourself and note them (update the scratchpad copy); if the draft is structurally wrong (untraceable central claim, stale baseline, stub-like body), do NOT silently re-dispatch; tell the user what's off and let them decide.

5. File it (main agent)

File per new-issue step 6: gh issue create --title "[C<score>] <title>" --body-file <body-file> (with -R owner/repo if cross-repo; labels only when the repo visibly uses them and the fit is unambiguous).

Footer: Created with LLM: <model that served> | <recorded tier> | Harness: <harness> | fable-new-issue, with the model and tier that step 2 recorded and <harness> naming the harness actually running, per fable-dispatch section 6. A repo CLAUDE.md footer format overrides.

6. Report

Terse: issue URL, number, one-line summary, complexity score, any unfiled follow-ups from the subagent, and a note that small spot-check fixes were applied (if any). Offer "validate issue" / "work on issue" as next steps in one line.

Notes

• One subagent, one draft: don't fan out or re-run for a second opinion unless the user asks.
• Never file a placeholder or thin body. If the subagent's draft isn't complete, it doesn't get filed; that rule outranks finishing the run.