implement-issue - SKILL.md Agent Skill

name: implement-issue description: Use when given a GitHub issue number and base branch to implement end-to-end argument-hint: "[issue-number] [base-branch]"

Implement Issue

End-to-end issue implementation via orchestrator script.

Announce at start: "Using implement-issue to run orchestrator for #$ISSUE against $BRANCH"

Arguments:

$1 — GitHub issue number (required)
$2 — Base branch name (required)

Invocation

Immediately launch the orchestrator:

.claude/scripts/implement-issue-orchestrator.sh \
  --issue $ISSUE_NUMBER \
  --branch $BASE_BRANCH

Or with explicit agent override:

.claude/scripts/implement-issue-orchestrator.sh \
  --issue $ISSUE_NUMBER \
  --branch $BASE_BRANCH \
  --agent bulletproof-frontend-developer

Monitoring

Each run creates its own status.json inside the log directory:

# Find the latest run's status file
jq . logs/implement-issue/issue-${ISSUE_NUMBER}-*/status.json

Watch live:

# Replace with your actual log dir path (shown at startup)
watch -n 5 'jq -c "{state,stage:.current_stage,task:.current_task,quality:.quality_iterations}" logs/implement-issue/issue-123-20260221-153045-12345/status.json'

Stages

Stage	Agent	Description
setup	default	fetch, worktree, research, evaluate, plan
implement	per-task	execute each task from plan
task-review	spec-reviewer	verify task achieved goal
fix	per-task	address review findings (uses task's agent)
simplify	code-simplifier	clean up code
test	php-test-validator	run test suite
review	code-reviewer	internal code review
docs	phpdoc-writer	add PHPDoc blocks
pr	default	create/update PR
spec-review	spec-reviewer	verify PR achieves issue goals
code-review	code-reviewer	final code quality check
tech-docs	technical-doc-writer	assess/write/update docs in docs/{domain}/
complete	default	post summary

Available Implementation Agents

The plan stage selects the best agent per task from:

Agent	Use For
laravel-backend-developer	PHP/Laravel: controllers, models, services, middleware, migrations, API, PHPUnit
bulletproof-frontend-developer	CSS, responsive design, Blade templates, frontend code
bash-script-craftsman	Shell scripts, portability, BATS tests
technical-doc-writer	Architecture docs, design docs, data flows, API contracts in docs/{domain}/

Schemas

Located in .claude/scripts/schemas/implement-issue-*.json

Logging

Logs written to logs/implement-issue/issue-N-timestamp/:

orchestrator.log — main log
stages/ — per-stage Claude output
context/ — parsed outputs (tasks.json, etc.)
status.json — real-time status (primary location, no root-level status.json)

Exit Codes

Code	Meaning
0	Success, PR created and approved
1	Error during a stage
2	Max iterations exceeded
3	Configuration/argument error

CLI Session Isolation

All claude -p invocations in orchestrator scripts must use --no-resume to prevent session context contamination. Without it, the CLI may resume a cached session and the model will return "already processed" instead of following the schema prompt — causing "No structured output" failures.

Exception: Explicit --resume $SESSION_ID after rate limit recovery is intentional and correct.

Integration

Called by handle-issues via batch-orchestrator.sh.