Automates creating, listing, and updating GitHub issues based on documentation.
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Activation
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Automate GitHub Issues lifecycle workflows with deterministic scripts. Use when creating, triaging, assigning, updating, linking, or closing issues in this repository, especially when converting planning documents in docs/tasks or docs/rfcs into trackable GitHub issues with required type labels and default priority handling.Key capabilities
- →Validate planning document paths before issue creation.
- →Create GitHub issues from planning documents.
- →Sync `github_issue: <issue-id>` back into source planning docs.
- →Derive labels from planning-doc metadata or CLI arguments.
- →Handle default labels for task, epic, and priority.
- →List existing issues by state, assignee, or labels.
How it works
This skill automates GitHub Issue lifecycle workflows by validating planning document paths, creating issues from these documents, and syncing issue IDs back to the source documents, while also supporting issue listing.
Inputs & outputs
When to use issue
- →Create issue from RFC
- →Triage tasks from docs
- →List project issues
- →Sync issue IDs to docs
About this skill
GitHub Issue Automation
Use these scripts for issue creation and listing. Avoid interactive gh prompts.
Scripts are executable; invoke them directly (no cargo +nightly -Zscript prefix).
Enforce Document-First Creation
Before creating an issue, validate the planning document path:
tools/issue.rs validate-doc-path --path docs/tasks/000001-example.md
Accepted paths:
docs/tasks/<6 digits>-<slug>.mddocs/rfcs/<4 digits>-<slug>.md
Create operations must fail if no valid planning document is provided.
If user input is id-only shorthand (for example $issue create task 000047), resolve id to exactly one document first:
tools/doc-id.rs search-by-id --kind task --id 000047 --scope open
Create Issue From Planning Doc
tools/issue.rs create-issue-from-doc \
--doc docs/tasks/000001-example.md \
--labels "type:task,priority:high" \
--assignee "@me"
create-issue-from-doc must use assignee @me.
After successful issue creation, the tool also syncs
github_issue: <issue-id> back into the source planning doc immediately
(task or RFC) so later workflows can read issue linkage directly from doc content.
--labels is optional. If omitted, labels can be derived from planning-doc metadata:
Issue Labels:
- type:task
- priority:high
- codex
When both metadata and --labels are present:
- CLI
type:*andpriority:*override metadata values. codexis unioned from both sources.
Defaults when no source provides a value:
- task doc ->
type:task - RFC doc ->
type:epic - priority ->
priority:medium
For a task whose explicit Parent RFC: block names one RFC document, validate
that RFC document and read its github_issue value. Fail if the block is
ambiguous or the RFC has no issue. Pass the resolved issue number to the task
creation command:
tools/issue.rs validate-doc-path \
--path docs/rfcs/0001-example.md
tools/issue.rs create-issue-from-doc \
--doc docs/tasks/000002-subtask.md \
--labels "type:task" \
--assignee "@me" \
--parent 42
The tool forwards --parent to the same gh issue create command so GitHub
creates a native sub-issue. Do not add Part of #<parent> to the body and do
not run a follow-up linking command. Omit --parent for standalone tasks and
RFC documents.
This script always uses --body-file to avoid body-length command issues.
Issue bodies include planning metadata plus selected document context:
- task docs:
Summary,Context,Goals, andNon-Goals - RFC docs:
Summary,Context, andDecision
Allowed labels are strictly validated:
- type:
type:doc,type:perf,type:feature,type:question,type:bug,type:chore,type:epic,type:task - priority:
priority:low,priority:medium,priority:high,priority:critical - special:
codex
List Issues
tools/issue.rs list-issues --state open --assignee "@me" --limit 50
Use --label repeatedly for multiple labels:
tools/issue.rs list-issues --label type:task --label priority:high
Reference
If workflow details are needed, read:
references/workflow.md
When not to use it
- →Do not use interactive `gh` prompts.
- →Create operations must fail if no valid planning document is provided.
- →Do not use for labels outside the strictly validated types, priorities, and 'codex'.
Limitations
- →The skill requires planning documents to follow specific path formats.
- →It strictly validates allowed labels.
- →It does not use interactive `gh` prompts.
How it compares
This skill enforces a document-first approach to GitHub issue creation and management, automatically syncing issue IDs and deriving labels, which is more structured than manual issue creation.
Compared to similar skills
issue side by side with the closest alternatives in the catalog.
| Skill | Installs | Updated | Safety | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| issue (this skill) | 0 | 1mo | Review | Beginner |
| github-manage | 6 | 8mo | Review | Beginner |
| jira | 11 | 6mo | No flags | Beginner |
| github-issues | 5 | 2mo | Review | Intermediate |
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