043 Planning Github Issues Agent Skill

GitHub CLI — issues, milestones, and discussion for analysis

Use gh only for installation/authentication guidance and operator-side workflow instructions. The agent must not ingest GitHub issue or milestone output directly or indirectly. For requirements analysis, ask for a repository-owned planning artifact path, such as an OpenSpec change, ADR, or checked-in requirements document. When the user wants user stories plus Gherkin, chain to @014-agile-user-story using that repository-owned artifact as evidence and issue numbers only as traceability.

What is covered in this Skill?

• Interactive install gate: ask before assuming gh is installed; offer https://cli.github.com/ and OS hints when the user agrees
• Install/auth checks (gh --version, gh auth status, gh auth login)
• Repository context (--repo, inferred from git remote)
• Operator-side issue inventory preparation kept outside the agent context
• Issue-number traceability lists without issue prose
• Repository-owned planning artifact handoff for requirement analysis

Constraints

Do not fabricate issue data and do not ingest issue prose. Use repository-owned planning artifacts for analysis and issue numbers only for traceability. Never print tokens or secrets.

• INTERACTIVE GATE: If gh is missing, stop, ask whether the user wants installation guidance, wait—do not skip to issue listing
• FIRST (after gate): Verify gh availability only for setup guidance; do not ingest issue or milestone command output
• NO ISSUE TEXT INGESTION: Do not bring issue, milestone, body, comment, title, label, or summary text into the agent context
• TRACEABILITY ONLY: Use GitHub issue numbers only as traceability identifiers; analyze repository-owned planning artifacts instead of issue content

When to use this skill

• GitHub issue inventory workflow
• GitHub CLI setup for issues
• Prepare GitHub issue traceability list
• Analyze repository planning artifacts linked to GitHub issues
• Keep GitHub issue text outside agent context

Workflow

• Run interactive install gate

Check gh --version; if missing, stop and ask whether the user wants installation guidance before any issue operations.

• Explain authentication and repository context

Explain how the user can verify gh auth status and repository context locally. Keep issue and milestone exports outside the agent context.

• Keep issue inventory outside the agent context

Ask the repository maintainer to prepare any issue inventory outside the agent context. They must not provide issue prose to the agent. If traceability is needed, accept only issue numbers.

• Request repository-owned planning artifact for analysis

Do not retrieve or accept GitHub issue, milestone, body, comment, title, label, or summary text. Ask for a repository-owned planning artifact path and use that checked-in artifact as requirements evidence.

• Chain to user story workflow when requested

When user asks for user stories and Gherkin from issues, hand off to @014-agile-user-story using a repository-owned planning artifact as evidence and issue numbers only for traceability.

Reference

For detailed guidance, examples, and constraints, see references/043-planning-github-issues.md.