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IX Issue Ops in Action

First-party GitHub Project triage with issue applicability review, confidence signals, and maintainer-owned close or keep-open decisions.

Issue Ops extends reviewer workflows into backlog operations. It helps maintainers spot stale or no-longer-applicable infra blockers, but keeps final decisions human-owned.

Why This Exists

Issue lists decay fast: old infra blockers stay open, linked PR context drifts, and teams lose confidence in the backlog. Issue Ops gives maintainers one triage surface where every recommendation includes a confidence score and explainable signals.

Board Overview

The project view below is optimized for issue triage at scale. You can quickly separate likely-invalid blockers from items that still need active ownership.

Issue Ops project board view with open infra blocker issues, status, linked pull request columns, and quick filtering for maintainer triage

Signals That Matter

Each issue recommendation includes:

  • Issue Review Action ( close , keep-open , needs-human-review )
  • Issue Review Action Confidence ( 0-100 , with high/medium/low levels)
  • linked PR context ( Matched Pull Request , related PRs)
  • supporting confidence signals (stale age, reopen history, activity recency)
Issue Ops table columns showing Issue Review Action, confidence score, and linked pull request matching used for stale infra blocker triage

Safety First

Issue Ops is assistive, not autonomous governance.

  • Do not run unattended close/merge decisions in production.
  • Use dry-run and proposal-only passes first.
  • Require a maintainer-owned approval step for mutating actions.

Start Here

intelligencex todo project-bootstrap --repo owner/repo --owner owner
intelligencex todo issue-review --repo owner/repo --proposal-only --min-consecutive-candidates 2
intelligencex todo project-sync --config artifacts/triage/ix-project-config.json --issue-review artifacts/triage/ix-issue-review.json --dry-run
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