Implement Issue

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.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: aaddrick
• Source: aaddrick/claude-pipeline
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.