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title: "Case study: Issue Triage Board"
description: "The entire open-issue backlog as one interactive board — 98 issues triaged in a single session instead of a week of grooming."
canonical: "https://orchestkit.yonyon.ai/docs/showcase/lab/triage-board"
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# Case study: Issue Triage Board

The entire open-issue backlog as one interactive board — 98 issues triaged in a single session instead of a week of grooming.

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**Problem.** A fast-moving solo repo accumulates open issues faster than any grooming
ritual clears them. At the time this board was generated the backlog stood at
**98 open issues** spanning bugs, adoption work, and milestone bundles — too many to
hold in one head, too interconnected for a flat list.

**Approach.** Instead of paging through GitHub, the session pulled the full backlog
and rendered it as a decision board: every issue a card, milestones as swimlanes,
and drag-to-triage buckets. The output of a triage pass is not a spreadsheet — it is
a composed execution prompt listing the chosen batch, ready to paste back into the
next working session.

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**What it demonstrates.** The pattern behind most Lab artifacts: pull real state,
render it as a manipulable surface, and make the copy-out artifact an *instruction*,
not a report. The board is a point-in-time snapshot by design — triage decisions are
consumed immediately, so freshness matters less than decision speed.