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# GitHub Backlog Management
GitHub issue discovery, triage, sprint planning, and backlog execution agents and prompts
## Overview
Manage GitHub issue backlogs with agents for discovery, triage, sprint planning, and execution. This collection brings structured backlog management workflows directly into VS Code.
## Included Artifacts
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### Chat Agents
| Name | Description |
|----------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **github-backlog-manager** | Orchestrator agent for GitHub backlog management workflows including triage, discovery, sprint planning, and execution |
### Prompts
| Name | Description |
|----------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **github-add-issue** | Create a GitHub issue using discovered repository templates and conversational field collection |
| **github-discover-issues** | Discover GitHub issues through user-centric queries, artifact-driven analysis, or search-based exploration and produce planning files for review |
| **github-execute-backlog** | Execute a GitHub backlog plan by creating, updating, linking, closing, and commenting on issues from a handoff file |
| **github-sprint-plan** | Plan a GitHub milestone sprint by analyzing issue coverage, identifying gaps, and organizing work into a prioritized sprint backlog |
| **github-suggest** | Resume GitHub backlog management workflow after session restore |
| **github-triage-issues** | Triage GitHub issues not yet triaged with automated label suggestions, milestone assignment, and duplicate detection |
### Instructions
| Name | Description |
|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **github/community-interaction** | Community interaction voice, tone, and response templates for GitHub-facing agents and prompts |
| **github/github-backlog-discovery** | Discovery protocol for GitHub backlog management - artifact-driven, user-centric, and search-based issue discovery |
| **github/github-backlog-planning** | Reference specification for GitHub backlog management tooling - planning files, search protocols, similarity assessment, and state persistence |
| **github/github-backlog-triage** | Triage workflow for GitHub issue backlog management - automated label suggestion, milestone assignment, and duplicate detection |
| **github/github-backlog-update** | Execution workflow for GitHub issue backlog management - consumes planning handoffs and executes issue operations |
| **shared/hve-core-location** | Important: hve-core is the repository containing this instruction file; Guidance: if a referenced prompt, instructions, agent, or script is missing in the current directory, fall back to this hve-core location by walking up this file's directory tree. |
### Skills
| Name | Description |
|----------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **gh-code-scanning** | Retrieves and groups GitHub code scanning alerts by rule and severity using the gh CLI |
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## Install
```bash
copilot plugin install github@hve-core
```
## Agents
| Agent | Description |
|------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| github-backlog-manager | Orchestrator agent for GitHub backlog management workflows including triage, discovery, sprint planning, and execution - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
## Commands
| Command | Description |
|------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| github-add-issue | Create a GitHub issue using discovered repository templates and conversational field collection |
| github-discover-issues | Discover GitHub issues through user-centric queries, artifact-driven analysis, or search-based exploration and produce planning files for review |
| github-triage-issues | Triage GitHub issues not yet triaged with automated label suggestions, milestone assignment, and duplicate detection |
| github-execute-backlog | Execute a GitHub backlog plan by creating, updating, linking, closing, and commenting on issues from a handoff file |
| github-sprint-plan | Plan a GitHub milestone sprint by analyzing issue coverage, identifying gaps, and organizing work into a prioritized sprint backlog |
| github-suggest | Resume GitHub backlog management workflow after session restore - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
## Instructions
| Instruction | Description |
|---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| github-backlog-discovery.instructions | Discovery protocol for GitHub backlog management - artifact-driven, user-centric, and search-based issue discovery |
| github-backlog-planning.instructions | Reference specification for GitHub backlog management tooling - planning files, search protocols, similarity assessment, and state persistence |
| github-backlog-triage.instructions | Triage workflow for GitHub issue backlog management - automated label suggestion, milestone assignment, and duplicate detection |
| github-backlog-update.instructions | Execution workflow for GitHub issue backlog management - consumes planning handoffs and executes issue operations |
| community-interaction.instructions | Community interaction voice, tone, and response templates for GitHub-facing agents and prompts |
| hve-core-location.instructions | Important: hve-core is the repository containing this instruction file; Guidance: if a referenced prompt, instructions, agent, or script is missing in the current directory, fall back to this hve-core location by walking up this file's directory tree. |
## Skills
| Skill | Description |
|------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| gh-code-scanning | Retrieves and groups GitHub code scanning alerts by rule and severity using the gh CLI - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
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