A Claude Code plugin marketplace that turns GitHub Issues into the source of truth for your project: plans, features, bugs, evidence-gated lifecycle, PR-driven review. Inspired by Orchestra MCP and Studio PMS, backed by GitHub's first-class primitives — Issue Types, Projects v2, Milestones, sub-issues, and relationships — not just labels.

Why

Most teams use GitHub Issues as a dumb backlog. gh-pms adds the structure that real project management needs:

Plans = Milestones with due dates and native progress bars
Features / Bugs use GitHub's native Issue Types when available, fall back to labels otherwise
Status tracked in a Projects v2 board's Status field (when configured) or status:* labels
Sub-issues for plan → feature breakdown, dependency relationships (depends on, blocks, related to, duplicate of)
Evidence-gated lifecycle — 5 gates with required ## Sections (file paths, test results, self-review)
WIP limits, cooldowns, kind-specific skips (bugs auto-skip the docs gate)
PR-driven review — Closes #N keyword + AskUserQuestion approval + gh pr merge closes the loop

Everything lives natively in GitHub. Open the Issues, Milestones, or Projects tab and you see exactly where the project is.

What's new in v0.8

See CHANGELOG.md for the full list. Highlights:

gh-test-plan skill — generate testcase sub-issues from acceptance criteria (#17, PR #31)
gh-search skill — ad-hoc issue queries beyond gh-status (#16, PR #30)
gh-bulk skill — safe batch label / close / reassign / set-severity (#15, PR #29)

See CHANGELOG.md for the full v0.8.0 entry.

From v0.7: (previous release)

See CHANGELOG.md for the full list. Highlights:

gh-metrics skill — time-in-status, gate failure rate, throughput (#13, PR #27)
Optional AI reviewer on Gate 4 (sub-agent code review before user approval) (#12, PR #26)
Wire Effort field end-to-end (gh-feature input + gh-status velocity) (#11, PR #25)

See CHANGELOG.md for the full v0.7.0 entry.

From v0.6: (previous release)

See CHANGELOG.md for the full list. Highlights:

gh-triage skill — accept/reject/dedupe the type:request inbox (#8, PR #23)
CI gate on Gate 4 — refuse review-ready when checks are red (#7, PR #22)
Per-repo config in .github/gh-pms.yaml (#6, PR #21)

See CHANGELOG.md for the full v0.6.0 entry.

From v0.5: (previous release)

Two skills that close adoption gaps the v0.4 release made obvious — sessions starting blind to the issue tracker, and releases requiring a manual edit-bump-tag dance.

gh-context ✨ — compact session-start summary of WIP, pipeline, milestones, recent closes, deferred requests. Auto-runs via the new SessionStart hook so the agent picks up where the last session left off (#9).
gh-release ✨ — bundle PRs merged since the last tag into a structured CHANGELOG entry, bump plugin.json, refresh the README banner, tag, and (optionally) create a GitHub release in one shot. Idempotent; refuses without an anchor (#5).

See CHANGELOG.md for the full list.

From v0.4: severity first-class

Severity is now a first-class dimension on every issue kind, not just bugs. A P0 feature blocking a launch is meaningfully different from a polish item — that signal was previously lost. Closes #2.

Canonical scale — workflows/default.yaml#severities is now the single source of truth (default: medium + four values, each mapped to a severity:* label and a Project v2 Severity field option). Per-repo severity scales become a config-only change.
gh-feature ✨ — accepts an optional severity on every kind (not just hotfix). Applied as label + Project field. Hotfixes still default to critical.
gh-task — sub-issue tasks inherit the parent feature's severity by default; override when the task is meaningfully more or less urgent. Checkbox tasks inherit implicitly.
gh-bug — references the canonical scale instead of defining its own. Same defaults, no behavior change.
gh-status — within each Status bucket, issues are sorted Critical → Low so urgent items surface first regardless of kind.
Templates — feature.md, chore.md, testcase.md gain a ## Severity section. plan.md / prd.md stay exempt (they aggregate child severities).

Backwards compatible — existing issues without a severity:* label remain valid, and skills called without severity get medium.

From v0.3: `gh-push` skill + branching policy

The "every feature must end with a linked PR" rule is baked into the lifecycle:

gh-push skill — One command to commit, push, open PR with Closes #N, post Gate 4 self-review evidence, ask the user to approve, and gh pr merge. Mirrors the popular /push pattern but PR-aware and lifecycle-integrated. Supports --message, --no-merge, --admin, --squash / --merge / --rebase, --dry, --force.
Branching policy — workflows/default.yaml#branching defines protected_base (default: main / master), pr_required_kinds (feature / bug / hotfix / chore / testcase), branch_template (default: {kind_short}/{number}-{slug}), and pr_must_close_issue: true. The rule is enforced in three places: gh-current auto-creates the branch on start, gh-advance Gate 1 refuses if HEAD is on the protected base, and gh-push refuses to ship from the protected base.
gh-current records branch + base in the per-issue state file so gh-push finds them later. The "🚧 Work started" comment mentions the branch name.
gh-advance Gate 1 has a clear rescue-recipe error if work is on the wrong branch. One-off legacy state can opt out with the [gh-pms: branch-exception] marker in the issue body.

From v0.2: GitHub-native primitives

Issue Types (orgs only): Feature, Bug, Task set via GraphQL, not labels — when the org has them enabled
Projects v2 integration: gh-init --with-project provisions a gh-pms board with Status, Severity, Effort, Service custom fields
Milestones for plans: gh-plan creates a milestone; gh-breakdown attaches every child via --milestone; closes auto-progress
gh-relate skill: encode depends_on, blocks, related_to, duplicate_of between issues
Auto-detection: gh-init queries the org for available features and provisions only what's missing; user-account repos gracefully fall back to labels
Unified status setter: lib/ghcall.sh set-status <issue> "<Status>" updates label + project field atomically

See CHANGELOG.md for the full list.

Install

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Requires:

GitHub MCP — already configured in Claude Code (auth via OAuth or PAT)
gh CLI — for batch label / project / milestone ops: brew install gh && gh auth login
gh project scope — only if you want Projects v2 integration: gh auth refresh -s project
jq — for JSON parsing in hooks: brew install jq

Quick start

In any GitHub repo:

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Examples:

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What gets created in your repo

After gh-init:

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Labels (always created — used directly when native features unavailable, otherwise as a visible-at-a-glance secondary signal):

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GitHub native (provisioned when available + opted in):

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The lifecycle

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Skills

Skill	Mirrors
`/gh-pms:gh-init`	(bootstrap)
`/gh-pms:gh-plan`	`pms_create_plan` (now creates milestone)
`/gh-pms:gh-breakdown`	`pms_breakdown_plan` (attaches to milestone)
`/gh-pms:gh-feature`	`pms_create_feature` (sets native type)
`/gh-pms:gh-bug`	`pms_create_bug_report` (sets native type)
`/gh-pms:gh-task`	`pms_create_task`
`/gh-pms:gh-current`	`pms_set_current_feature` (auto-creates feature branch)
`/gh-pms:gh-advance`	`pms_advance_feature` (Gate 1 refuses from protected base)
`/gh-pms:gh-push` ✨	(new in v0.3) — commit + push + PR + Gate 4 + Gate 5 in one shot
`/gh-pms:gh-validate`	`pms_validate_gates`
`/gh-pms:gh-review`	`pms_request_review` + `pms_submit_review`
`/gh-pms:gh-relate`	(new in v0.2) — manage issue relationships
`/gh-pms:gh-request`	`pms_create_request`
`/gh-pms:gh-status`	`pms_list_features` (reads project board)
`/gh-pms:gh-context` ✨	(new in v0.5) — session-start summary
`/gh-pms:gh-release` ✨	(new in v0.5) — version bump + tag + release
`/gh-pms:gh-triage` ✨	(new in v0.5) — drain the type:request inbox
`/gh-pms:gh-reopen` ✨	(new in v0.7) — re-enter a done issue
`/gh-pms:gh-metrics` ✨	(new in v0.7) — flow analytics + velocity
`/gh-pms:gh-bulk` ✨	(new in v0.8) — safe batch ops
`/gh-pms:gh-search` ✨	(new in v0.8) — ad-hoc issue queries
`/gh-pms:gh-test-plan` ✨	(new in v0.8) — testcases from acceptance

Hooks

Event	Behavior
`SessionStart`	Injects a `gh-context` summary so the agent isn't blind on a new session
`UserPromptSubmit`	Classifies the prompt, injects a context reminder for the agent
`PreToolUse` on `mcp__github__create_pull_request`	Blocks PR creation if `Closes #N` is missing from the body
`Stop`	Surfaces stale in-progress issues at end of turn

Programmatic guardrails

WIP limit — One in-progress issue per assignee
Gate cooldown — 30s minimum between transitions on the same issue (prevents fake batch-advancement)
Kind-specific skips — Bugs/hotfixes/testcases skip Gate 3 (docs)
Branching policy (v0.3) — Feature work must land on a feature branch, not on main / master. gh-current auto-creates the branch; gh-advance Gate 1 refuses from the protected base; gh-push refuses to ship from the protected base. Bootstrap commits with no issue number are exempt.
PR enforcement — Every feature must end with a PR containing Closes #N so merge auto-closes the issue. Gate 4 requires it; gh-push injects it automatically.
CI gate on Gate 4 (v0.5+) — documented → in-review refuses if any required PR check is failing or still pending. lib/check-pr-checks.sh is the source of truth. Override only with --ignore-checks "<reason>", which records the reason in a ## Check overrides section of the evidence comment for audit.
User-only Gate 5 — Only gh-push Step 5 (or gh-review's Phase 2) can move to done, and only after AskUserQuestion approval
Native primitives preferred — Issue Types, Project Status field, and Milestones are used when available; labels stay as a fallback and visible-at-a-glance signal

Configuration

The plugin's defaults live in plugins/gh-pms/workflows/default.yaml. To override per repo, drop a .github/gh-pms.yaml in the repo (an annotated example lives at plugins/gh-pms/templates/gh-pms.yaml.example — gh-init --customize copies it for you).

The merge is shallow at the top-level key: any section you set in your override replaces its default counterpart wholesale. To extend a list, copy the defaults into your override and add yours.

Inspect the merged result anytime:

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Common overrides:

Severity scale — replace the severities block to use blocker/high/medium/nit instead of the default critical/high/medium/low
Service taxonomy — swap github_features.project_fields[Service].options to your team's repo set; gh-init bootstrap-labels creates the matching svc:* labels automatically
Gate evidence — add or remove required sections per gate (e.g. add a Threat model section to Gate 1 for security-sensitive repos)
Branching policy — change protected_base or branch_template to fit non-main defaults
Custom kinds — add a new issue kind beyond feature/bug/hotfix/chore/testcase/plan/prd/request

License

MIT — see LICENSE

Author

Fady Mondy

Why

What's new in v0.8

From v0.7: (previous release)

From v0.6: (previous release)

From v0.5: (previous release)

From v0.4: severity first-class

From v0.3: gh-push skill + branching policy

From v0.2: GitHub-native primitives

Install

Quick start

What gets created in your repo

The lifecycle

Skills

Hooks

Programmatic guardrails

Configuration

License

Author

From v0.3: `gh-push` skill + branching policy