gh-issues — GitHub Issue Orchestrator

What it does

This skill is a full orchestrator for automatically processing GitHub issues: it fetches issues, presents them for confirmation, runs pre-flight checks, and spawns parallel sub-agents to implement fixes and open pull requests. It also monitors PRs for review comments and can spawn review-fix agents. All GitHub interactions use curl + the REST API (no gh CLI). The skill encodes phases for argument parsing, issue fetching, confirmation, pre-flight checks, spawning, results collection, and a dedicated PR review handler.

When to use it

Use this skill when you want an automated pipeline to triage and attempt fixes for issues in a repository, especially for maintenance tasks or large backlog cleanups. It's appropriate for cron-driven or interactive workflows, supports fork-mode for pushing to forks, watch mode for continuous polling, and a cron-safe mode for single-issue sequential processing.

What's included

• Scripts: none embedded (has_scripts=false) — the skill provides detailed shell/curl-based procedures developers can run within the agent runtime.
• References: none detected (has_references=false) — but the skill contains extensive procedural templates for spawning sub-agents and API usage.
• Instructions: granular step-by-step phases covering token resolution, filtering issues, git pre-flight checks, claim/cursor tracking to avoid duplication, spawning sessions_spawn sub-agents with timeouts, and handling review comments.

Compatible agents

Designed for OpenClaw-style agent runtimes that can exec shell commands and spawn sub-agents (sessions_spawn). Works with agents that expose curl/git and can accept GH_TOKEN in the environment.