ItsEmilyJpg

Start Issue — Git skill for Claude Code

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Open a worktree for a GitHub issue and read the issue into the session.

How to install Start Issue

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/itsemilyjpg-clawdeen-start-issue.md

Terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ItsEmilyJpg/clawdeen/HEAD/.claude/commands/start-issue.md -o ~/.claude/commands/itsemilyjpg-clawdeen-start-issue.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Start Issue does

description: Open a worktree for a GitHub issue and read the issue into the session argument-hint:

Start work on issue #$1 of this repository.

Before anything is created

Read the issue and find out whether somebody is already on it. Both, before touching the disk.

gh issue view $1 --json number,title,state,body,labels,assignees
git worktree list
git branch --list "*$1*"

An issue on this board is usually already running somewhere: a branch named after it

Alternatives in Git

Full documentation available on GitHub

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