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oh-my-issues (Issue Backlog Clustering)

Turns a sprawling GitHub issue backlog into a handful of root-cause "plan-master" issues plus a shippable roadmap.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 90,139⑂ 7,846AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 9, 2026

What it does

Reframes an issue tracker as a roadmap of architectural defects instead of a pile of symptoms.

  • Reads every open issue's full body and comment thread, then clusters by the question "would one architectural change retire all of these?"
  • Opens one master per cluster titled [plan-XX] <Architectural Defect> — <one-line scope>, mirrored as a plans/0X-*.md design doc
  • Closes each child with a standardized redirect comment and not planned
  • Routes new incoming bugs into the matching master as a "Round N" comment (Mode 2)
  • Ships one PR per cluster listing Closes #N so all children close atomically (Mode 3)

It also documents real gh CLI gotchas: --json comments returns only counts, --limit truncates silently, and the REST issue count includes PRs.

Who it's for

  • Open-source maintainers buried under 20+ (or ~100) open issues that look like duplicates
  • Team leads who want work defined by root cause rather than surface labels like "Windows bugs"
  • Teams introducing a 1:1 discipline between the tracker and a plans/ directory
  • Anyone who wants regression test matrices institutionalized in CI

Examples

  1. Initial reduction (Mode 1): "Read all 90 open issues and cluster them by root cause" → 4–8 plan masters plus plans/0X-*.md docs; everything else closed with the redirect comment.
  2. Triage (Mode 2): "Which plan does the new issue #217 belong to?" → a Round 3 comment on the master with the symptom, a 1–3 line fix sketch, and the new test-matrix cell, then the child is closed.
  3. Bundle (Mode 3): "Draft the PR for the plan-02 slice" → PR body listing Closes #N for every covered child, with the plan's test matrix added to CI.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the plugin/skills/oh-my-issues folder from the GitHub repo thedotmack/claude-mem into my ~/.claude/skills/oh-my-issues/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem.git /tmp/claude-mem && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/claude-mem/plugin/skills/oh-my-issues ~/.claude/skills/ && rm -rf /tmp/claude-mem

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Confirm GitHub CLI is installed: gh --version (install from https://cli.github.com if missing).
  2. Check auth and scopes: gh auth status — the account needs permission to create and close issues.
  3. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem.git /tmp/claude-mem
  4. Copy the skill into your personal skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/claude-mem/plugin/skills/oh-my-issues ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Clean up: rm -rf /tmp/claude-mem
  6. Start Claude Code inside the repo you want to triage and ask it to "cluster the issue backlog by root cause" — the skill triggers automatically.
  7. Important: Ask for a proposed cluster list first and review it before allowing any issue closures; trying it on a fork or test repo first is strongly recommended.
View source on GitHub ↗License: Apache-2.0