Git-issues – AI agent-first task management for Git repos

Name: Git-issues – AI agent-first task management for Git repos
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Author: steviee

by steviee·Mar 20, 2026·2 points·0 comments

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AI Analysis

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Issues as versioned Markdown files means you can branch, revert, and diff task history with git.

Strengths

•No database or server required — issues are just files in your repository.
•Bidirectional relations automatically sync blocks and depends-on between issues.
•.agent.md context file gives AI agents full schema and workflow documentation.

Weaknesses

•Git-based issue trackers exist — gitit and similar tools already do file-based issues.
•No collaboration features visible; unclear how teams resolve conflicts on issue files.

Post Description

Hi,

I built git-issues to be used as a replacement for my Github Issues based workflow where I direct my coding agent to put up tasks and context besides the README.md.

This works as long as the Github Issues and what you're actually developing is in sync. However you can't just branch out, change the plan and explore something that easily with non-versioned Tasks. Also you can't revert to a certain composition of tasks just like that.

All this changes when your tasks are part of the repo and commit-history.

It's all self-contained.

Hope you find it useful.

Best, Steviee