GitHub Issue Organizer

Systematically inventory, classify, and organize open GitHub Issues.

Workflow

Run the following five steps in order.

Step 1: Understand the Current State

Use the gh CLI to fetch every open issue and summarize the current backlog.

Complete retrieval guarantee: gh issue list --limit is an upper bound, and the default limit is 30. Open issues beyond the limit are silently omitted. Do not let counting or retrieval stop at the default limit.

• Count issues with a sufficiently high limit: gh issue list --state open --limit 100000 --json number --jq 'length'.
• Fetch all issues with a limit at least as large as the actual issue count. For large repositories, use gh api --paginate "repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues?state=open&per_page=100" | jq -s 'add | [.[] | select(.pull_request | not)]'. --paginate emits one JSON array per page, so applying --jq page by page splits the result. Use jq -s 'add' to combine all pages first, then remove PRs returned by the Issues endpoint by excluding entries with .pull_request.

# Fetch all open issues with labels, author, and timestamps. Set --limit above the open issue count.
gh issue list --state open --limit 1000 --json number,title,labels,author,createdAt,updatedAt,body