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# GitHub Backlog Management
GitHub issue discovery, triage, sprint planning, and backlog execution agents and prompts
## 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 |
| rpi-agent | Autonomous RPI orchestrator running specialized subagents through Research → Plan → Implement → Review → Discover phases - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| task-researcher | Task research specialist for comprehensive project analysis - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| task-planner | Implementation planner for creating actionable implementation plans - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| task-implementor | Executes implementation plans from .copilot-tracking/plans with progressive tracking and change records - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| task-reviewer | Reviews completed implementation work for accuracy, completeness, and convention compliance - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| memory | Conversation memory persistence for session continuity - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| pr-review | Comprehensive Pull Request review assistant ensuring code quality, security, and convention compliance - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| prompt-builder | Prompt engineering assistant with phase-based workflow for creating and validating prompts, agents, and instructions files - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| rpi-validator | Validates a Changes Log against the Implementation Plan, Planning Log, and Research Documents for a specific plan phase - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| implementation-validator | Validates implementation quality against architectural requirements, design principles, and code standards with severity-graded findings - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| plan-validator | Validates implementation plans against research documents, updating the Planning Log Discrepancy Log section with severity-graded findings - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| researcher-subagent | Research subagent using search tools, read tools, fetch web page, github repo, and mcp tools |
| phase-implementor | Executes a single implementation phase from a plan with full codebase access and change tracking - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| prompt-evaluator | Evaluates prompt execution results against Prompt Quality Criteria with severity-graded findings and categorized remediation guidance |
| prompt-tester | Tests prompt files by following them literally in a sandbox environment when creating or improving prompts, instructions, agents, or skills without improving or interpreting beyond face value |
| prompt-updater | Modifies or creates prompts, instructions or rules, agents, skills following prompt engineering conventions and standards based on prompt evaluation and research |
## 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 |
| rpi | Autonomous Research-Plan-Implement-Review-Discover workflow for completing tasks - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| task-research | Initiates research for implementation planning based on user requirements - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| task-plan | Initiates implementation planning based on user context or research documents - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| task-implement | Locates and executes implementation plans using task-implementor - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| task-review | Initiates implementation review based on user context or automatic artifact discovery - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| checkpoint | Save or restore conversation context using memory files - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| git-commit-message | Generates a commit message following the commit-message.instructions.md rules based on all changes in the branch |
| git-commit | Stages all changes, generates a conventional commit message, shows it to the user, and commits using only git add/commit |
| git-merge | Coordinate Git merge, rebase, and rebase --onto workflows with consistent conflict handling. |
| git-setup | Interactive, verification-first Git configuration assistant (non-destructive) |
| pull-request | Provides prompt instructions for pull request (PR) generation - Brought to you by microsoft/edge-ai |
| prompt-analyze | Evaluates prompt engineering artifacts against quality criteria and reports findings - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| prompt-build | Build or improve prompt engineering artifacts following quality criteria - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| prompt-refactor | Refactors and cleans up prompt engineering artifacts through iterative improvement - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
## Instructions
| Instruction | Description |
|--------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| writing-style | Required writing style conventions for voice, tone, and language in all markdown content |
| markdown | Required instructions for creating or editing any Markdown (.md) files |
| commit-message | Required instructions for creating all commit messages - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core |
| prompt-builder | Authoring standards for prompt engineering artifacts including prompts, agents, instructions, and skills |
| git-merge | Required protocol for Git merge, rebase, and rebase --onto workflows with conflict handling and stop controls. |
| github-backlog-discovery | Discovery protocol for GitHub backlog management - artifact-driven, user-centric, and search-based issue discovery |
| github-backlog-planning | Reference specification for GitHub backlog management tooling - planning files, search protocols, similarity assessment, and state persistence |
| github-backlog-triage | Triage workflow for GitHub issue backlog management - automated label suggestion, milestone assignment, and duplicate detection |
| github-backlog-update | Execution workflow for GitHub issue backlog management - consumes planning handoffs and executes issue operations |
| community-interaction | Community interaction voice, tone, and response templates for GitHub-facing agents and prompts |
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> Source: [microsoft/hve-core](https://github.com/microsoft/hve-core)microsoft/hve-core
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