Issues, labels, milestones

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Issue management plus repository/organization labels and milestones. gt <cmd> --help is authoritative. Global/repository-selection flags are in SKILL.md.

issue

gt issue <command>
  attachment  close  comment  create  edit  list  reopen  timeline  view

issue list aliases issue ls; issue create aliases issue new.

Issue argument: 123, #123, a URL, or OWNER/REPO#123.

JSON fields (issue): assignees, author, body, comments, created_at, due_date, id, kind, labels, milestone, number, ref, state, title, updated_at, url. view/edit add blocked_by, blocks (extra requests, only when named).

Gitea lists pull requests among issues, so most issue commands also accept a PR number.

list

Flag	Meaning
`-s, --state {open\|closed\|all}`	default `open`
`-a, --assignee`, `-A, --author`, `--mentions`	`@me` for yourself
`--no-assignee`	only issues without an assignee
`-l, --label names`, `-m, --milestone titles`	filters
`--kind {issues\|pulls\|all}`	include PRs
`-S, --search text`	search titles and bodies
`--since`, `--until`	updated window (date, timestamp, or duration ago)
`-L, --limit n` (1..1000, default 30), `--page n`	pagination
`-w, --web`	open in browser

gt issue list --label bug --state all
gt issue list --assignee @me --json number,title
gt issue list --kind all --milestone v1.0 | cut -f1,2

create

-t/--title, -b/--body, -F/--body-file file|-, -e/--editor, -a/--assignee login, -l/--label name (prefix repo:/org: to disambiguate), -m/--milestone, -p/--project, --ref, --deadline DATE, -T/--template name, --attachment File, -w/--web.

Without flags on a terminal, a form asks for title and body, then optionally assignees, a milestone, labels and a due date. Gitea applies labels/milestone/assignees/deadline only to users with issue write access; otherwise gt reports the left-out fields and fails.

gt issue create --title "Crash on start" --body "Steps..." \
  --label bug --milestone v1.0
gt issue create --template "Bug report"

edit

Adds/removes relative to current values, or replaces with --set-*: --add-label, --remove-label, --set-labels, --add-assignee, --remove-assignee, --set-assignees, -m/--milestone, --remove-milestone, --add-blocked-by, --remove-blocked-by, --add-project, --remove-project, -t/--title, -b/--body, -F/--body-file, -e/--editor, --ref, --deadline. Accepts multiple issues.

gt issue edit 12 --title "Crash on start" --add-label bug
gt issue edit 12 13 --add-assignee @me --milestone v1.0
gt issue edit 12 --add-blocked-by 9

close / reopen / comment / timeline / view / attachment

close {N}... [-c comment], reopen {N}...
comment {N} [-b text] [-F file] [-e] [--edit-last] [--delete-last] [--attachment File]; subcommands list|view|edit|delete. JSON: author, body, created_at, id, issue_number, updated_at, url.
timeline {N} [-L n] [--page n] — comments and changes, oldest first.
view {N} [-c|--comments] [-w]
attachment {list|view|upload|download|edit|delete}

gt issue view 12 --comments
gt issue comment 12 --body "Fixed in #14"
gt issue close 12 13 --comment "Done in #14"

label

gt label <command>
  create  delete  edit  export  import  list

Scope with --org organization for organization labels; otherwise the repository's. Addressed by name or ID. JSON: color, description, exclusive, id, is_archived, name.

create <name> [-c color] [-d description] [--exclusive] [--archived] [-f/--force] — random color without -c; --force updates on name clash.
list, edit, delete
export [-O|--output file] and import <file> [-f|--force] — a label file, one label per line: #color name ;description ;flags. gt label export writes this format; Gitea label templates use it. - reads/writes stdin.

gt label create bug --color d73a4a --description "Something is broken"
gt label create "priority/high" --exclusive
gt label export --org acme --output labels.txt
gt label export -R alice/old | gt label import - -R alice/new

milestone

gt milestone <command>
  close  create  delete  edit  issue  list  reopen  view

milestone list aliases milestone ls; milestone create aliases milestone new. Addressed by title or ID. milestone issue manages the issues/PRs in it. JSON: closed_issues, description, due_on, id, open_issues, state, title.

create [<title>] [-t title] [-d description] [-F desc-file] [-e] [--deadline date] [--state {open|closed}] [-f/--force] — --force updates an existing milestone of the same title.
list [-s {open|closed|all}] [-L n] [--page n], view, edit, close, reopen, delete
issue list <milestone> etc.

gt milestone create v1.0 --deadline 2026-12-31 --description "First release"
gt milestone list --state open
gt milestone issue list v1.0

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