Issue Manager

Opens one GitHub issue, shows it with its workflow state, moves it between states by changing labels, and sets up a branch workspace for it.

packages/issue-manager

Issue Manager is launched for one issue at a time, usually from another RobOS app. It has no Kanban board and no issue list.

Start it 

electron packages/issue-manager 123
electron packages/issue-manager config

The first form opens issue #123 (a leading # is accepted). The second opens the workflow configuration. Without an argument the issue view reports that no repository or issue is selected.

Requirements

The gh CLI, signed in, and a task server in ~/.config/robos/settings.json (task_servers, with active_task_server) that lists the repository. Issues are fetched with gh issue view.

The issue view

  • The header shows the number, title, assignees and a type badge. The type is inferred from a label such as bug, feature, task, chore, security, performance, question or type:<name>.
  • Description renders the issue body as Markdown, and Steps to Reproduce appears when the body has a heading such as ## Steps to reproduce.
  • Workflow State shows the issue’s states as a pipeline. The current state is the issue label state:<id> (or the bare <id>), and the workflow’s initial state when there is none. Transitions lists the moves the workflow allows. A transition runs gh issue edit to remove the old state:<id> label and add the new one (the label is created in purple if it does not exist), then runs the new state’s on_enter_script (bash, with ISSUE_NUM, ISSUE_TITLE, ORG, REPO, STATE_ID and STATE_LABEL set) and on_enter_prompt (sent to gh copilot with all tools allowed) if the workflow defines them. It also writes the issue number to ~/.config/robos/active-issue, which Desktop Widgets shows as the active task.
  • Set Up Workspace clones the repository with gh repo clone into ~/source/<org>/<repo> if needed, fetches, and checks out the branch issue-<number>. A task server can supply its own workspace_setup_script instead, which runs with ISSUE_NUM, ORG, REPO and REPO_DIR set. Open in VS Code runs code on that folder.
  • AI Agent has an Ask box. Your question is sent with the issue title and the first 800 characters of its body to gh copilot -p ... --allow-all-tools, and the output streams into the panel. This needs the GitHub Copilot CLI extension and runs with all tools allowed.
  • The GitHub button opens the issue in a browser.

The configuration view

The Workflow Studio screen edits the issue types and workflows of the active task server and saves them back to settings.json (Save, Clear All, + Add Issue Type). AI Generate asks gh copilot for a JSON list of issue types and fills the form from it. Saving also appends a note to the daily file in the journal repository when journal_repo is set in the settings, committing and pushing it.

Source: packages/issue-manager.

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