How I Cleared a 214-Issue Backlog on My Open-Source Repo With Claude Code

说明与用途

在三周内，我使用 Claude Code 清理了一个开源仓库的 214 个问题，分类、复现并修复了 19 个真实 bug，最终只剩下 9 个活跃问题。

问题

A mid-sized open-source CLI library had 214 open issues, many unlabeled, duplicates, and stale, making maintenance difficult and risking loss of real bugs.

结果

Three weeks of AI-assisted triage reduced the backlog from 214 to 9 issues, uncovered 19 live bugs, and improved community perception without mass-closing.

工作流

• 1. Dump all open issues to a JSON file using gh CLI.
• 2. Prompt Claude Code to classify each issue into category, status_guess, confidence, and evidence.
• 3. Verify likely-fixed issues by running reproduction steps against current main and recording output.
• 4. Draft replies for all issues with a rule that the agent never posts; review drafts in batches and post approved comments.
• 5. Fix confirmed bugs using reproduction tests as regression tests, reviewing diffs before merging.

证据

The first pass took the agent a couple of hours of chugging through the codebase and git history. Results on the 214 issues: ...

来源

For issue #N: extract the reproduction steps from the report. Run them against current main in a scratch directory. Record: REPRODUCED / NOT-REPRODUCED / CANNOT-ATTEMPT (missing info). Save the actual terminal output as proof.

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