GitHub Issues and Projects — Lightweight Project Management
Use GitHub Issues and Projects for task tracking that lives right next to your code — issue templates, project boards, and automations.
You already live in GitHub. Your code is there, your PRs are there, your CI/CD is there. So why use a completely separate tool to track your work?
GitHub Issues and Projects give you project management that's embedded directly in your development workflow. No context switching. No syncing between two systems. No paying for another SaaS tool. For solo developers and small teams, it's often all you need.
And here's the thing that makes it especially powerful: your AI agent already understands GitHub. When your tasks, code, and discussions all live in the same place, your agent can connect the dots without you explaining the relationship between a task and a codebase.
GitHub Issues — The Building Block
An issue is a unit of work — a bug, a feature request, a question, or a task. Issue
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