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taskstoissues

Convert user stories to GitHub issues. Use when ready to create issues. Triggers on: create github issues, export to github, generate issues.

personAuthor: jakexiaohubgithub

GitHub Issues Generator

Convert user stories from tasks.md into GitHub issues.


The Job

  1. Read tasks.md
  2. Parse user stories
  3. Generate GitHub issues with gh CLI
  4. Link dependencies

Prerequisites

  • GitHub CLI (gh) installed and authenticated
  • Git repository with GitHub remote
  • tasks.md exists with user stories

Issue Format

For each user story, create issue with:

Title: [US-XXX] Story Title

Body:

## Description
[Story description]

## Acceptance Criteria
- [ ] Criterion 1
- [ ] Criterion 2
- [ ] Typecheck passes
- [ ] Tests pass

## Dependencies
#123 (if US-001 already exists as issue #123)

## Phase
Foundation / Stories / Polish

## Priority
High / Medium / Low

---
From: tasks.md
Story ID: US-XXX

Labels:

  • user-story
  • priority-high / priority-medium / priority-low
  • Domain-specific: database, api, ui, security, etc.

Execution

# Dry run first
relentless issues --feature NNN-feature --dry-run

# Create issues
relentless issues --feature NNN-feature

# Create all issues (including completed)
relentless issues --feature NNN-feature --all

Mapping

  • Extract story ID, title, description, acceptance criteria
  • Detect domain from description (api, database, ui, etc.)
  • Map priority from tasks.md
  • Create dependencies based on US dependencies

Notes

  • Dry run first to preview
  • Issues created in dependency order
  • Issue numbers used for dependency linking
  • Only creates issues for incomplete stories (unless --all)
  • See relentless CLI for actual implementation