# issues

Turn review findings and project problems into GitHub issues, check what remains open, and record how fixes were verified. Requires the GitHub CLI.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1671
- Author: pedrohcgs
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/issues/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-27
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/issues

## What it does

The skill turns confirmed findings from reviews, audits, or conversation into separate GitHub issues. It searches open and closed issues for possible duplicates, groups findings with the same root cause, and shows drafts before creating anything. You approve each draft; on a public repository, the skill warns that every issue will be visible to anyone.

Use list mode to inspect open work related to a topic, section, or files. To close an issue, the skill gathers its history and related commits, then drafts a comment covering the diagnosis, attempted approaches, fix, and check. The GitHub CLI must pass `gh auth status` before issue creation can proceed.

Call `/issues file <report|text>`, `/issues list [topic]`, or `/issues close <#N>`; `--dry-run` is available. Set `CLAUDE_ISSUES_AT_START=1` in `.claude/settings.local.json` to show open issues at session startup. That setting calls GitHub on every startup.

## Requirements
- Works with: GitHub

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill issues -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/issues/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/issues/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill issues -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/issues/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill issues -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/issues/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow issues
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/issues/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill issues -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --path .claude/skills/issues
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/issues/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill issues -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/issues/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- convert review findings into individual GitHub issues
- find open work related to a topic or files
- check proposed issues against existing ones
- close an issue with a record of the fix and its verification

## Example prompts
- Create GitHub issues from the confirmed findings in `review-report.md`: `/issues file review-report.md`.
- List open issues related to the auth module: `/issues list auth`.
- Close issue `#42` and record the fix and its verification: `/issues close #42`.

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```text
---
name: issues
description: Keeps a project's to-do list and memory in GitHub issues — files each finding (from a review, an audit, or the user) as its own issue without duplicates, lists the open issues that bear on the current work, and closes an issue with a comment recording what was wrong, what was tried, what worked, and how it was fixed. Use when review findings or a list of problems should become tracked work (a paper's misleading claims, a codebase's bugs, improvements for later), when starting or resuming work and deciding what to do next, or when a fix has landed and its issue should be closed with a record. Needs the GitHub CLI; warns before posting to a public repository.
argument-hint: "[file <report|text> | list [topic] | close <#N>] [--dry-run]"
allowed-tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Bash"]
---

# /issues — the project's to-do list and memory, in GitHub issues

Every problem worth fixing becomes an issue: a claim in the paper that misleads, a table that
disagrees with the code, a bug, an improvement for later. The open issues are the to-do list.
When a fix lands, the issue is closed with a comment that says what was wrong, what was tried —
including what did **not** work — and how it was fixed. Read back months later, the closed
issues are the project's memory: auditable, searchable, and the same on every machine and for
every co-author, which a chat transcript or a local notes file is not.

This skill makes the habit cheap. It never posts anything without showing the draft first and
getting a yes.

## When to use

- **After a review** — `/review-paper`, `/seven-pass-review`, `/adjudicate-review`, or findings
  you list yourself — to turn each confirmed problem into its own issue.
- **When starting or resuming work** — to see what is open for the paper, section or files at
  hand, and pick the next thing.
- **When a fix has landed** — to close its issue with a record of what happened.

## Modes

### `file <report|text>` — turn findings into issues

The input is a findings JSON from the review runtime, a review report, or problems described in
the conversation.

1. **Pre-flight.** `gh auth status` must succeed. Then `gh repo view --json visibility,nameWithOwner`:
   on a **PUBLIC** repository, say plainly that every issue will be public — unpublished results,
   referee-sensitive weaknesses and co-authors' drafts would be visible to anyone — suggest a
   private repository for paper work, and create nothing without an explicit yes to that.
2. **One issue per root cause, for problems that matter.** Merge findings that share a cause;
   split a finding that bundles two problems. File confirmed findings that affect correctness or
   a stated requirement; list the rest to the user as optional rather than filling the tracker
```
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