Issue Discover

Unified issue discovery and creation skill covering three entry points: manual issue creation, perspective-based discovery, and prompt-driven exploration.

Architecture Overview

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Issue Discover Orchestrator (SKILL.md)                          │
│  → Action selection → Route to phase → Execute → Summary         │
└───────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                │
                ├─ AskUserQuestion: Select action
                │
    ┌───────────┼───────────┬───────────┐
    ↓           ↓           ↓           │
┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐   │
│ Phase 1 │ │ Phase 2 │ │ Phase 3 │   │
│  Create │ │Discover │ │Discover │   │
│   New   │ │  Multi  │ │by Prompt│   │
└─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘   │
     ↓           ↓           ↓          │
  Issue      Discoveries  Discoveries   │
(registered)  (export)    (export)      │
     │           │           │          │
     └───────────┴───────────┘          │
                  ↓                     │
          issue-resolve (plan/queue)    │
                  ↓                     │
            /issue:execute              │

Key Design Principles

1. Action-Driven Routing: AskUserQuestion selects action, then load single phase
2. Progressive Phase Loading: Only read the selected phase document
3. CLI-First Data Access: All issue CRUD via ccw issue CLI commands
4. Auto Mode Support: -y flag skips action selection with auto-detection

Auto Mode

When --yes or -y: Skip action selection, auto-detect action from input type.

Usage

Skill(skill="issue-discover", args="<input>")
Skill(skill="issue-discover", args="[FLAGS] \"<input>\"")

# Flags
-y, --yes              Skip all confirmations (auto mode)
--action <type>        Pre-select action: new|discover|discover-by-prompt

# Phase-specific flags
--priority <1-5>       Issue priority (new mode)
--perspectives <list>  Comma-separated perspectives (discover mode)
--external             Enable Exa research (discover mode)
--scope <pattern>      File scope (discover/discover-by-prompt mode)
--depth <level>        standard|deep (discover-by-prompt mode)
--max-iterations <n>   Max exploration iterations (discover-by-prompt mode)

# Examples
Skill(skill="issue-discover", args="https://github.com/org/repo/issues/42")                   # Create from GitHub
Skill(skill="issue-discover", args="\"Login fails with special chars\"")                       # Create from text
Skill(skill="issue-discover", args="--action discover src/auth/**")                            # Multi-perspective discovery
Skill(skill="issue-discover", args="--action discover src/api/** --perspectives=security,bug") # Focused discovery
Skill(skill="issue-discover", args="--action discover-by-prompt \"Check API contracts\"")      # Prompt-driven discovery
Skill(skill="issue-discover", args="-y \"auth broken\"")                                       # Auto mode create

Execution Flow

Input Parsing:
   └─ Parse flags (--action, -y, --perspectives, etc.) and positional args

Action Selection:
   ├─ --action flag provided → Route directly
   ├─ Auto-detect from input:
   │   ├─ GitHub URL or #number → Create New (Phase 1)
   │   ├─ Path pattern (src/**, *.ts) → Discover (Phase 2)
   │   ├─ Short text (< 80 chars) → Create New (Phase 1)
   │   └─ Long descriptive text (≥ 80 chars) → Discover by Prompt (Phase 3)
   └─ Otherwise → AskUserQuestion to select action

Phase Execution (load one phase):
   ├─ Phase 1: Create New          → phases/01-issue-new.md
   ├─ Phase 2: Discover            → phases/02-discover.md
   └─ Phase 3: Discover by Prompt  → phases/03-discover-by-prompt.md

Post-Phase:
   └─ Summary + Next steps recommendation

Phase Reference Documents

Core Rules

1. Action Selection First: Always determine action before loading any phase
2. Single Phase Load: Only read the selected phase document, never load all phases
3. CLI Data Access: Use ccw issue CLI for all issue operations, NEVER read files directly
4. Content Preservation: Each phase contains complete execution logic from original commands
5. Auto-Detect Input: Smart input parsing reduces need for explicit –action flag

Input Processing

Auto-Detection Logic

function detectAction(input, flags) {
  // 1. Explicit --action flag
  if (flags.action) return flags.action;

  const trimmed = input.trim();

  // 2. GitHub URL → new
  if (trimmed.match(/github\.com\/[\w-]+\/[\w-]+\/issues\/\d+/) || trimmed.match(/^#\d+$/)) {
    return 'new';
  }

  // 3. Path pattern (contains **, /, or --perspectives) → discover
  if (trimmed.match(/\*\*/) || trimmed.match(/^src\//) || flags.perspectives) {
    return 'discover';
  }

  // 4. Short text (< 80 chars, no special patterns) → new
  if (trimmed.length > 0 && trimmed.length < 80 && !trimmed.includes('--')) {
    return 'new';
  }

  // 5. Long descriptive text → discover-by-prompt
  if (trimmed.length >= 80) {
    return 'discover-by-prompt';
  }

  // Cannot auto-detect → ask user
  return null;
}

Action Selection (AskUserQuestion)

// When action cannot be auto-detected
const answer = AskUserQuestion({
  questions: [{
    question: "What would you like to do?",
    header: "Action",
    multiSelect: false,
    options: [
      {
        label: "Create New Issue (Recommended)",
        description: "Create issue from GitHub URL, text description, or structured input"
      },
      {
        label: "Discover Issues",
        description: "Multi-perspective discovery: bug, security, test, quality, performance, etc."
      },
      {
        label: "Discover by Prompt",
        description: "Describe what to find — Gemini plans the exploration strategy iteratively"
      }
    ]
  }]
});

// Route based on selection
const actionMap = {
  "Create New Issue": "new",
  "Discover Issues": "discover",
  "Discover by Prompt": "discover-by-prompt"
};

Data Flow

User Input (URL / text / path pattern / descriptive prompt)
    ↓
[Parse Flags + Auto-Detect Action]
    ↓
[Action Selection] ← AskUserQuestion (if needed)
    ↓
[Read Selected Phase Document]
    ↓
[Execute Phase Logic]
    ↓
[Summary + Next Steps]
    ├─ After Create → Suggest issue-resolve (plan solution)
    └─ After Discover → Suggest export to issues, then issue-resolve

TodoWrite Pattern

[
  {"content": "Select action", "status": "completed"},
  {"content": "Execute: [selected phase name]", "status": "in_progress"},
  {"content": "Summary & next steps", "status": "pending"}
]

Phase-specific sub-tasks are attached when the phase executes (see individual phase docs for details).

Core Guidelines

Data Access Principle: Issues files can grow very large. To avoid context overflow:

ALWAYS use CLI commands for CRUD operations. NEVER read entire issues.jsonl directly.

Error Handling

Post-Phase Next Steps

After successful phase execution, recommend next action:

// After Create New (issue created)
AskUserQuestion({
  questions: [{
    question: "Issue created. What next?",
    header: "Next",
    multiSelect: false,
    options: [
      { label: "Plan Solution", description: "Generate solution via issue-resolve" },
      { label: "Create Another", description: "Create more issues" },
      { label: "View Issues", description: "Review all issues" },
      { label: "Done", description: "Exit workflow" }
    ]
  }]
});

// After Discover / Discover by Prompt (discoveries generated)
AskUserQuestion({
  questions: [{
    question: "Discovery complete. What next?",
    header: "Next",
    multiSelect: false,
    options: [
      { label: "Export to Issues", description: "Convert discoveries to issues" },
      { label: "Plan Solutions", description: "Plan solutions for exported issues via issue-resolve" },
      { label: "Done", description: "Exit workflow" }
    ]
  }]
});

Related Skills & Commands

• issue-resolve – Plan solutions, convert artifacts, form queues, from brainstorm
• issue-manage – Interactive issue CRUD operations
• /issue:execute – Execute queue with DAG-based parallel orchestration
• ccw issue list – List all issues
• ccw issue status <id> – View issue details