GitHub Research

Search GitHub for prior art, implementation patterns, and maintainer decisions.

Commands

# Search issues
gh search issues "topic" --repo owner/repo --limit 20 \
  --json number,title,state,url

# Search merged PRs (highest signal)
gh search prs "topic" --repo owner/repo --merged --limit 20 \
  --json number,title,url

# Search code (use query syntax for path filtering)
gh search code "pattern path:src/" --repo owner/repo --limit 20 \
  --json path,textMatches