Github Issue Lifecycle Operations

Github Issue Lifecycle Operations

When to Use

Use for GitHub issue intake, decomposition, planning, execution handoff, label/evidence automation, roadmap reuse, closeout, or cross-issue waves.

Class-Level Workflow

1. Discover repo, existing anchors, labels, and issue state before writing.
2. Prefer durable umbrella/roadmap anchors over duplicate replacement epics.
3. Put command-heavy bodies in files to avoid shell quoting and command substitution hazards.
4. Maintain explicit evidence fields and closeout comments before state transitions.
5. Use checklist skills as support material, not separate discovery targets.

Consolidated Session Learnings

The references/ directory contains archived narrow skills absorbed during the 2026-04-29 umbrella consolidation pass. Use the subsections below as the class-level index, then open the named reference when a case-specific recipe is needed.

Absorbed Narrow Skills (2026-04-29)

gh-issue-creation-full-repo-and-batch-setup

• Former skill demoted to references/gh-issue-creation-full-repo-and-batch-setup.md.
• Preserved insight: Create multiple related GitHub issues safely by resolving full OWNER/REPO, checking duplicates and labels first, and verifying each created issue.

gh-work-execution

• Former skill demoted to references/gh-work-execution.md.
• Preserved insight: Canonical GitHub issue execution route after plan approval — strengthened resource intelligence, TDD-first implementation, targeted validation, adversarial review, delegation controls for Codex agent teams, GitHub progress posting, future-issue capture, and commit/push with closeout discipline.

gh-work-execution-checklist

• Former skill demoted to references/gh-work-execution-checklist.md.
• Preserved insight: Compact live-execution checklist companion for approved GitHub issue work. Use during active implementation as a fast operational route; gh-work-execution remains the canonical source of truth.

gh-work-planning

• Former skill demoted to references/gh-work-planning.md.
• Preserved insight: Canonical GitHub issue planning route — issue intake, strengthened resource intelligence, repo-tracked plan artifact, adversarial review, GitHub progress posting, future-issue capture, explicit approval gate before execution, and execution-ready delegation packaging for Codex agent teams.

gh-work-planning-checklist

• Former skill demoted to references/gh-work-planning-checklist.md.
• Preserved insight: Compact live-execution checklist companion for the canonical gh-work-planning route. Use for fast operational tracking during issue planning without replacing the full route.

github-comment-body-file-safety

• Former skill demoted to references/github-comment-body-file-safety.md.
• Preserved insight: Prevent shell-quoting and command-substitution bugs when posting GitHub issue/PR comments or editing bodies with gh CLI.

github-interaction-limits-hardening

• Former skill demoted to references/github-interaction-limits-hardening.md.
• Preserved insight: Lock down public GitHub repositories so only collaborators can interact with issues, PRs, comments, discussions, and other user-generated surfaces using repository interaction limits; includes expiry verification and renewal handling.

github-issue-automation-evidence-fields

• Former skill demoted to references/github-issue-automation-evidence-fields.md.
• Preserved insight: Use when building GitHub issue classifiers, dashboards, closeout verifiers, or queue/report automation that depends on comments, approval evidence, or linked PR handoff state.

github-issue-closeout-race-safe

• Former skill demoted to references/github-issue-closeout-race-safe.md.
• Preserved insight: Close GitHub issues without losing the evidence comment when multiple agents or races may close the issue concurrently.

github-issue-label-audit-and-command-bundles

• Former skill demoted to references/github-issue-label-audit-and-command-bundles.md.
• Preserved insight: Safely turn drafted issue bodies into reusable gh issue create commands by auditing repo labels, exact duplicates, and auth first.

github-issue-label-existence-audit

• Former skill demoted to references/github-issue-label-existence-audit.md.
• Preserved insight: Prevent GitHub issue creation failures by auditing exact label existence, duplicate titles, and partial-create risk before calling gh issue create.

github-roadmap-anchor-reuse

• Former skill demoted to references/github-roadmap-anchor-reuse.md.
• Preserved insight: Reuse and reopen existing roadmap/epic GitHub issues instead of fragmenting work across duplicate replacement epics; retarget children and link active issues for continuity.

github-visual-planning-issues

• Former skill demoted to references/github-visual-planning-issues.md.
• Preserved insight: Create review-friendly GitHub planning issues that supersede stale/seasonal issues and include source-backed image thumbnails for faster human review.

issue-tree-decomposition

• Former skill demoted to references/issue-tree-decomposition.md.
• Preserved insight: Break a large umbrella GitHub issue into a layered tree of focused follow-on issues using read-only subagent analysis, then create the issues locally and update docs/parent issue with the issue map.

roadmap-anchor-issue-governance

• Former skill demoted to references/roadmap-anchor-issue-governance.md.
• Preserved insight: Reopen and reuse the original roadmap/umbrella issue as the governance anchor; create new issues only for genuinely missing scoped work, then retarget/link all execution issues back to the anchor.

roadmap-issue-reopen-retarget-balance

• Former skill demoted to references/roadmap-issue-reopen-retarget-balance.md.
• Preserved insight: Reopen existing roadmap anchors, close replacement epics, retarget new child issues, and add sequencing/de-dup comments so GitHub roadmap work preserves continuity and execution quality.

roadmap-to-github-issue-wave

• Former skill demoted to references/roadmap-to-github-issue-wave.md.
• Preserved insight: Turn a roadmap/readiness review into a de-duplicated GitHub epic + child issue set with verification and explicit scope boundaries.

closed-issue-plan-refile-loop

• Former skill demoted to references/closed-issue-plan-refile-loop.md.
• Preserved insight: Reopen and re-drive a previously closed GitHub plan issue after review/governance blockers are fixed, without prematurely restoring approval state.

preserved-plan-refile-with-attested-review-wave

• Former skill demoted to references/preserved-plan-refile-with-attested-review-wave.md.
• Preserved insight: Reopen a previously closed GitHub issue with a preserved local plan, rewrite it into a conservative draft, and drive iterative attested adversarial review waves until it is truly approval-ready.

single-terminal-gh-issue-prompts

• Former skill demoted to references/single-terminal-gh-issue-prompts.md.
• Preserved insight: Generate live issue-specific Codex prompts for a single terminal, with repo-aware path contracts and plan-gate safety checks.

plan-resubmit-wave-prompts

• Former skill demoted to references/plan-resubmit-wave-prompts.md.
• Preserved insight: Run a planning-only multi-terminal wave to harden blocked status:plan-review issues for fresh adversarial re-review, with zero implementation work and explicit path ownership.

parallel-plan-drafting-worktrees

• Former skill demoted to references/parallel-plan-drafting-worktrees.md.
• Preserved insight: Draft multiple follow-up GitHub issue plans in parallel using isolated git worktrees plus background Codex print-mode runs, while keeping governance-safe boundaries and avoiding shared-file contention.

parallel-approved-issue-worktrees

• Former skill demoted to references/parallel-approved-issue-worktrees.md.
• Preserved insight: Launch approved GitHub issue implementation in parallel using isolated git worktrees, committed execution-pack prompts, local plan-approved markers, and direct background Codex runs when delegate_task workers are unreliable for real repo writes.

plan-gated-issue-execution-wave

• Former skill demoted to references/plan-gated-issue-execution-wave.md.
• Preserved insight: Execute a multi-issue architecture/planning wave in a plan-gated repo, then safely transition approved issues into implementation with file-based Codex prompts, local approval markers, subprocess monitoring, and cleanup handling for sandbox/hook edge cases.

continuous-planning-pipeline

• Former skill demoted to references/continuous-planning-pipeline.md.
• Preserved insight: Maintain a standing day/night GitHub issue pipeline so agents always have planned, reviewed, user-approved work for overnight execution and next-day QA/approval.

plan-automation-contracts

• Former skill demoted to references/plan-automation-contracts.md.
• Preserved insight: Tighten plans for scheduled/reporting workflows and multi-source detectors so adversarial review can verify runtime, publication, and normalization behavior.

next-wave-handoff-bundle

• Former skill demoted to references/next-wave-handoff-bundle.md.
• Preserved insight: Build a docs-only execution handoff bundle after a completed implementation wave — follow-up issue drafts, scoped authorization note, deploy checklist, operator note, copy/paste command bundle, and incremental commit hygiene.