I’ll introduce the gh projects item-create command for creating draft issues in GitHub Projects from the CLI.

Preparation: Grant scopes: project Permissions

You can’t use the gh projects command without scopes: project permissions, so grant permissions with gh auth refresh -s project.

$ gh auth status
github.com
  ✓ Logged in to github.com as shige (/Users/your_username/.config/gh/hosts.yml)
  ✓ Git operations for github.com configured to use https protocol.
  ✓ Token: gho_************************************
  ✓ Token scopes: gist, read:org, repo, workflow

$ gh auth refresh -s project
? Authenticate Git with your GitHub credentials? Yes

! First copy your one-time code: XXXX-XXXX
Press Enter to open github.com in your browser... 

$ gh auth status
github.com
  ✓ Logged in to github.com as shige (/Users/your_username/.config/gh/hosts.yml)
  ✓ Git operations for github.com configured to use https protocol.
  ✓ Token: gho_************************************
  ✓ Token scopes: gist, project, read:org, repo, workflow

Install gh-projects Extension

gh extension install github/gh-projects

gh projects item-create Help

$ gh projects item-create
Usage:
  projects item-create [number] [flags]

Examples:

# create a draft issue in the current user's project 1 with title "new item" and body "new item body"
gh projects item-create 1 --user "@me" --title "new item" --body "new item body"

# create a draft issue in user monalisa's project 1 with title "new item" and body "new item body"
gh projects item-create 1 --user monalisa --title "new item" --body "new item body"

# create a draft issue in org github's project 1 with title "new item" and body "new item body"
gh projects item-create 1 --org github --title "new item" --body "new item body"

# add --format=json to output in JSON format


Flags:
      --body string     Body of the draft issue item.
      --format string   Output format, must be 'json'.
  -h, --help            help for item-create
      --org string      Login of the organization owner.
      --title string    Title of the draft issue item.
      --user string     Login of the user owner. Use "@me" for the current user.

required flag(s) "title" not set

Creating Draft Issues with gh projects item-create

Here’s a sample script for creating draft issues in GitHub Projects using the gh projects item-create command:

YOUR_GH_PJ_NUM=1
gh projects item-create $YOUR_GH_PJ_NUM 
--org codenote-net 
--title "new item" 
--body "new item body"

That’s all from the Gemba - I want to make use of the gh projects item-create command for adding draft issues to GitHub Projects from the CLI.

Reference Information

• GitHub Issues & Projects - March 2nd update | GitHub Changelog