GitHub Scrum

Manage software projects using Scrum on GitHub, adapted for solo developers and small teams (1-3 people). This skill maps Scrum artifacts and events to GitHub primitives (Issues, Milestones, Labels, Releases) and automates project setup and sprint management.

Reference: The 2020 Scrum Guide.

Tooling Strategy

Use the gh CLI for all GitHub operations. It is the primary and default tool for this skill.

Always set GH_PAGER=cat when running gh commands to prevent interactive pagers from blocking script execution.

For a full command reference, see references/tooling.md.

Cross-platform Date Generation

When generating ISO 8601 dates for milestone due_on fields, use a portable snippet — date -d is GNU/Linux only and fails on macOS: