issue-driven-workflow
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Use when a project follows an issue-first workflow and implementation should be tracked through docs/issues before, during, and after coding. Trigger for non-trivial bug fixes, features, refactors, or reliability work once the problem is already clear enough to execute. Do not use this skill as a substitute for early problem framing or detailed task decomposition when those are still missing.
In this repository9 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- decision-recordingSkill
- harness-bootstrapSkill
- planning-workflowSkill
- review-workflowSkill
- spec-writingSkill
- subagent-workflowSkill
- technical-learning-noteSkill
- troubleshooting-workflowSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
7 rules. About 0 are common, 5 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈5
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
2
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 8
Run non-trivial implementation through an issue document so problem, scope, risks, validation, and next steps stay explicit.
- Very specific: line 12
If the request is still vague, hand off to spec-writing first.
- Distinctive: line 13
Create or update an issue doc before coding.
- Distinctive: line 14
Keep the issue state in sync with actual work.
- Distinctive: line 19
Use troubleshooting notes, decision records, and review notes when the work produces reusable evidence beyond the issue itself.
- Distinctive: line 20
Always remind what was just completed and what remains.
- Very specific: line 38
Keep the issue doc focused on execution state.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Issue Driven Workflow
Run non-trivial implementation through an issue document so problem, scope, risks, validation, and next steps stay explicit.
Default flow
- If the request is still vague, hand off to
spec-writingfirst. - Create or update an issue doc before coding.
- Keep the issue state in sync with actual work.
- Record affected files, linked docs, and validation commands.
- After completion, update:
docs/issues/current_backlog.mddocs/status/implemented_features.mdwhen real functionality changed
- Use troubleshooting notes, decision records, and review notes when the work produces reusable evidence beyond the issue itself.
- Always remind what was just completed and what remains.
Good fit
- feature work
- bug fixes with more than one file
- reliability or UX cleanup
- refactors with validation requirements
Avoid for
- tiny spelling fixes
- trivial one-line changes with no real scope
Resources
- See
references/issue-lifecycle.mdfor the recommended issue lifecycle. - Pair with
spec-writingwhen scope is loose andplanning-workflowwhen the issue is too large to execute directly. - Keep the issue doc focused on execution state; move durable rationale to
decision-recordingand mechanism explanations totechnical-learning-note.
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