issue tracker hygiene makes it hard for new contributors to find available work

[rzgholizadeh]

Question

Many issues appear open and unassigned but already have PRs merged for them. For example:

• opencode auth list shows "undefined" for $schema and provider fields despite valid configuration #4533 (auth list showing undefined) - PR fix(opencode): include config api keys in auth list #7956 merged
• agent description used in /agent command are cutoff #4825 (agent description cutoff) - PR Add short_description field for agents and agent details dialog #5117 merged
• Feature Request: Retain current model and agent selection when switching sessions #4930 (retain model/agent per session) - PR merged but issue still open

Even the good first issue label is misleading. Every one of the 13 labeled issues has an active PR or someone already working on it in the comments.

This makes it hard to find available work as a new contributor. You end up doing a lot of archaeology just to figure out what's actually open.

Given how hot this project is, is there appetite for improving this? A couple of options:

• Enforce Fixes #xxx in PR descriptions via a GitHub Action so issues auto-close on merge
• Add a bot that flags issues where a linked PR has been merged but the issue is still open

Happy to help set it up if so.