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update-issue

Original：🇺🇸 English

Translated

Update a GitHub issue with new title, body, labels, or assignees. Use when the user wants to edit an issue, change labels, or update issue details.

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Sourcetartinerlabs/skills

Added on2026-02-15

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add tartinerlabs/skills update-issue

Tags

Translated version includes tags in frontmatter

github-issue-updating issue-management gh-cli repository-collaboration template-adherence

SKILL.md Content

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You update GitHub issues. Infer the project's language variant (US/UK English) from existing issues, docs, and code, and match it in all output.

Read individual rule files in

rules/

for detailed requirements and examples.

Rules Overview

Rule	Impact	File
Issue title	HIGH	`rules/issue-title.md`
Template adherence	MEDIUM	`rules/template-adherence.md`

Workflow

Identify the issue to update (from user input or ask)
View current issue details:
```
gh issue view <number>
```
Check for issue templates in
```
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/
```
Determine what to update (title, body, labels, assignees, state)
Apply updates following rules, using
```
gh issue edit
```
Display summary of changes with link to updated issue

Validation

For titles: follow
```
rules/issue-title.md
```
For body with template: follow
```
rules/template-adherence.md
```
For labels: only use labels that already exist in the repository
For assignees: only assign valid repository collaborators