GitHub Board

Gustavo AmbrozioCode & Reviews9
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See your GitHub issues, pull requests and discussions on one board, and hand any of them to an agent thread. Four columns cover what you wrote, what is open on repositories you own and what is assigned to you, and an issue that a pull request closes folds into that pull request's card. Pull request cards show CI checks and branch status, with an Update branch button wherever you can push. A detail panel shows the body, comments and images, and labels are added or removed from a right-click menu. Send to chat opens bb's new-thread composer on a card, with a prompt you set per column and per project, in the bb project that has the repository checked out. Add to chat puts the same prompt, the card's column template with the chat's project override, at the end of a chat's draft without sending it, from a menu of the chats on screen and your recent threads. Requires bb 0.47 or later, and the GitHub CLI (gh) installed and signed in on the machine running the bb server.

Overview

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A GitHub board inside bb: your issues, draft pull requests, open pull requests and discussions in four columns, beside the threads that work on them.

What you get

  • The work you wrote, whatever is open on repositories you own, and what is assigned to you, on one board. On a narrow window the columns become tabs.
  • Issues fold into the pull request that closes them, so one piece of work is one card.
  • Open pull requests show their CI checks, and an out-of-date or conflicting branch says so, with an Update branch button wherever you can push to the repository.
  • A detail panel with the body, comments and images. Images from outside GitHub load only when you ask.
  • Labels added and removed from a right-click menu.
  • Send to chat opens bb's new-thread composer on a card, with a prompt you can set per column and per project, in the bb project that has the repository checked out.
  • Add to chat puts the same prompt at the end of a chat's draft, using that chat's project's prompt, without sending it. Pick a chat on screen or a recent thread, which opens in the board's place.
  • A thread started from a card shows that card in its Info tab, linked to GitHub.

What it needs

bb 0.47 or later, and the GitHub CLI, gh, installed and signed in on the machine running the bb server. The board uses that login and stores no token of its own.

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