summarize-epic

Productivity

Summarize GitHub Epic issue with sub-issues and related PRs. Use when reviewing epic progress or getting implementation overview.

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Summarize Epic

Aggregate and summarize a GitHub Epic issue with its sub-issues and related PRs.

Arguments

<epic-issue-url>: GitHub Epic issue URL (e.g., https://github.com/owner/repo/issues/123)

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Steps

1. Fetch Epic Issue

Extract repository name and issue number from URL
Get Epic details (title, body, state, comments)

2. Fetch Sub-issues

gh api repos/<owner>/<repo>/issues/<epic-number>/sub_issues --paginate --jq '.[].number'

On failure: Report error as-is
On success: Aggregate sub-issue states (completed/in-progress)

3. Fetch Related PRs

Use GraphQL API to get PRs from issue timeline
Search PR bodies for issue references
Extract PR numbers from Epic body
Get PR details (title, state, mergedAt, additions, deletions, files)

4. Output Format

# Epic Summary

## Basic Info
- **Epic**: <url>
- **State**: <state>
- **Assignees**: <assignee-list>

## Overview
<Epic body summary>

## Key Comments
<Important decisions and changes from Epic comments>

## Sub-issue Progress
- **Completed**: <completed>/<total> issues
- **Progress**: <percentage>%

## Implementation Highlights

### Merged Changes
- <pr-url>: <summary of main changes>

### In Progress
- <pr-url>: <change overview>

## Overall Progress
- **Completed**: <completed>/<total> issues
- **Progress**: <percentage>%
- **Remaining**: <pending or in-progress tasks>

## Issues & Gaps
<Discrepancies between Epic spec and implementation, blockers, concerns>

## Next Steps
<Upcoming milestones>

Commands

# Epic issue
gh issue view <number> --repo <owner>/<repo> --json title,body,state,comments

# Sub-issues
gh api repos/<owner>/<repo>/issues/<epic-number>/sub_issues --paginate --jq '.[].number'

# Related PRs (GraphQL)
gh api graphql -f query='
  {
    repository(owner: "<owner>", name: "<repo>") {
      issue(number: <issue-number>) {
        timelineItems(first: 100, itemTypes: [CROSS_REFERENCED_EVENT]) {
          nodes {
            ... on CrossReferencedEvent {
              source {
                ... on PullRequest { number title state merged mergedAt }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
'

# PR details
gh pr view <pr-number> --repo <owner>/<repo> --json title,body,state,mergedAt,additions,deletions,changedFiles