splice-issue

What problem does it solve?

Large, multi-faceted GitHub issues are hard to track, assign, and complete because they cover too much unrelated work, leading to blocked PRs, missed acceptance criteria, and messy dependency tracking. This skill automates breaking these parent issues into small, self-contained sub-issues with correct dependency relationships so teams can work in parallel without conflicts.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Automated Issue Decomposition: Splits a parent issue into independent, mergeable sub-issues with clear, behavior-focused acceptance criteria.
• Dependency Management: Automatically inherits the parent's existing blocked-by and blocking relationships, and sets new dependencies between child issues to avoid redundant work.
• Metadata Consistency: Copies labels, milestones, assignees, and project board priorities from the parent to all child issues to maintain alignment with existing workflows. Use case: For example, a large issue covering full end-to-end authentication implementation for the aihub-core stack can be split into sub-issues for SSO integration, PII filtering, and cost tracking, with correct dependency order so PII filtering is completed before SSO is merged.

Quick Start

Use the splice-issue skill to break down parent issue #123 from the bbvch-ai/aihub-core repository into linked, dependency-managed sub-issues.