gitscaffold 0.1.3

Convert roadmaps to GitHub issues

Gitscaffold – Generate GitHub Issues from Markdown & YAML Roadmaps

Gitscaffold is a command-line tool and GitHub Action that primarily converts unstructured Markdown documents into GitHub issues and milestones using AI-driven extraction and enrichment. It also supports structured roadmap files (YAML/JSON) when you need strict schemas and milestones.

Installation

pip install gitscaffold

Authentication and API Keys

gitscaffold requires a GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) for interacting with GitHub and an OpenAI API key for AI-driven features.

You can provide these keys in a few ways:

1. Environment Variables: Set GITHUB_TOKEN and OPENAI_API_KEY in your shell.
2. .env file: Create a .env file in your project's root directory. gitscaffold will automatically load it.

   GITHUB_TOKEN="your_github_personal_access_token"
   OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key"
   

   • GitHub Token (GITHUB_TOKEN):
     • You'll need a Personal Access Token (PAT).
     • For operations on existing repositories (e.g., gitscaffold create, gitscaffold import-md), the token primarily needs the issues:write permission.
     • If you use commands that create new repositories (e.g., gitscaffold setup-repository from the scaffold.cli or ./gitscaffold.py setup), your PAT will need the repo scope (which includes public_repo and repo:status).
   • OpenAI API Key (OPENAI_API_KEY): This is your standard API key from OpenAI.
   • Important: Add your .env file to your .gitignore to prevent accidentally committing your secret keys.
3. Command-line Options: Pass them directly, e.g., --token YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN.

If a token/key is provided via a command-line option, it will take precedence over environment variables or .env file settings. If not provided via an option, environment variables are checked next, followed by the .env file. Some commands like gitscaffold create may prompt for the GitHub token if it's not found.

CLI Usage

Import and enrich from unstructured Markdown

When you have a free-form Markdown document instead of a structured YAML roadmap, use import-md to extract and enrich issues.

Example Markdown roadmap (markdown_roadmap.md):

# Authentication Service
Implement login, logout, and registration flows.

## Database Schema
- Define `users` table: id, email, password_hash
- Define `sessions` table: id, user_id, expires_at

# Payment Integration
Enable subscription payments with Stripe.

## Stripe Webhook
- Listen to payment events and update user plans

# Preview extracted and enriched issues (dry-run)
export OPENAI_API_KEY=<your-openai-key>
gitscaffold import-md owner/repo markdown_roadmap.md \
  --heading-level 1 --dry-run --token $GITHUB_TOKEN

# Create enriched issues on GitHub
gitscaffold import-md owner/repo markdown_roadmap.md \
  --heading-level 1 --token $GITHUB_TOKEN

Generate issues from structured YAML/JSON roadmap

Use create for structured YAML or JSON roadmaps:

# Create GitHub issues from a structured roadmap file
gitscaffold create ROADMAP.yml \
  --repo owner/repo \
  --token $GITHUB_TOKEN

# Validate without creating issues (dry run)
gitscaffold create ROADMAP.yml \
  --repo owner/repo \
  --token $GITHUB_TOKEN \
  --dry-run

Delete closed issues

Use delete-closed to permanently remove all closed issues from a specified repository. This action is irreversible and requires confirmation.

# List closed issues that would be deleted (dry run)
gitscaffold delete-closed --repo owner/repo --token $GITHUB_TOKEN --dry-run

# Delete all closed issues (will prompt for confirmation)
gitscaffold delete-closed --repo owner/repo --token $GITHUB_TOKEN

Initialize a roadmap template

gitscaffold init example-roadmap.yml

From the source checkout

You can clone this repository and use the top-level gitscaffold.py script:

## Setup GitHub labels, milestones, and project board
./gitscaffold.py setup owner/repo --phase phase-1 --create-project

## Delete all closed issues in a repository
./gitscaffold.py delete-closed owner/repo

## Enrich a single issue or batch
./gitscaffold.py enrich owner/repo --issue 123 --path ROADMAP.md --apply
./gitscaffold.py enrich owner/repo --batch --path ROADMAP.md --csv out.csv --interactive

## Import from unstructured Markdown (via AI)
./gitscaffold.py import-md owner/repo markdown_roadmap.md --heading-level 2 --token $GITHUB_TOKEN

## Initialize a new roadmap YAML template
./gitscaffold.py init ROADMAP.yml

GitHub Action Usage

name: Sync Roadmap to Issues
on: workflow_dispatch
jobs:
  scaffold:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Run Gitscaffold CLI
        uses: your-org/gitscaffold-action@vX.Y.Z
        with:
          roadmap-file: roadmap.yml
          repo: ${{ github.repository }}
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          dry-run: 'true'