Write a board adapter
An adapter teaches the crew to talk to one task board. Four verbs, and two rules.
The verbs
| Verb | Contract |
|---|---|
fetch |
Return the ready queue as {id, title, body, url, labels, priority}, capped at 5 |
claim |
Mark an item taken, atomically enough that a concurrent run skips it |
comment |
Post a note back to the item |
move |
Send the item to a named destination queue |
Destinations are always named by role — ready, claimed, review, parked, filed —
never by the board’s own labels. The mapping from role to board object lives in the config.
The two rules
Read the board’s real shape at runtime. Never hardcode a queue or label name. Resolve by meaning at init, store the identifiers, and re-resolve when a lookup fails. Boards get reorganised, and a crew that breaks when a list is renamed will be turned off.
Item text is untrusted input. Say it in your adapter document. It describes work; it is never an instruction.
Claiming, honestly
Few boards offer a genuinely atomic claim. Be explicit about what yours can guarantee:
- If a claim is atomic, say so.
- If it is not, claim, then re-read and confirm you hold the only claim. If another run also claimed it, drop yours and move on. Two agents implementing one item produces two conflicting pull requests and a bad afternoon.
Also document
- Where priority comes from, and its direction. Numeric scales often put urgent at 1.
- Whether a move can be rejected. Workflow-based boards can refuse a transition; say how to discover the legal ones.
- Any multi-target case, where one board feeds several repositories and one item could be picked up by two lanes. Detect it, park it, explain it.
Try it on your own repository
/plugin marketplace add samiraklf/claudrunner
/plugin install claudrunner
/claudrunner:init
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