Summary
chalk new currently expects a fully-shaped issue description — context, motivation, and at least a sketch of a proposed approach.
There's no lightweight path for capturing an issue when the solution isn't yet known and the user doesn't want Claude to guess at one.
Motivation
Ideas, frustrations, and "we should do something about X" thoughts surface mid-session and want to be captured before they're lost.
Today the options are both bad:
- Use
chalk new and end up with a description that either (a) extracts a half-formed solution from a one-line user prompt, or (b) has Claude invent a proposed approach to fill the section.
Both produce an issue that looks decided when it isn't, and the invented framing then anchors whoever picks it up later.
- Skip chalk and open the issue by hand, losing the voice guidance and the project-conventions plumbing chalk already handles.
What's missing is a way to say "capture this as an issue, but leave the solution space open" — a placeholder issue that records the problem and the why-now without committing to a shape.
Scope
The solution shape is intentionally left open here — that's the whole point of the feature.
Worth exploring during design: whether this is a new command (chalk placeholder?), a flag on chalk new, or just a shift in how chalk new behaves when the user hasn't offered a proposed approach.
Progress
Status: not started
Summary
chalk newcurrently expects a fully-shaped issue description — context, motivation, and at least a sketch of a proposed approach.There's no lightweight path for capturing an issue when the solution isn't yet known and the user doesn't want Claude to guess at one.
Motivation
Ideas, frustrations, and "we should do something about X" thoughts surface mid-session and want to be captured before they're lost.
Today the options are both bad:
chalk newand end up with a description that either (a) extracts a half-formed solution from a one-line user prompt, or (b) has Claude invent a proposed approach to fill the section.Both produce an issue that looks decided when it isn't, and the invented framing then anchors whoever picks it up later.
What's missing is a way to say "capture this as an issue, but leave the solution space open" — a placeholder issue that records the problem and the why-now without committing to a shape.
Scope
The solution shape is intentionally left open here — that's the whole point of the feature.
Worth exploring during design: whether this is a new command (
chalk placeholder?), a flag onchalk new, or just a shift in howchalk newbehaves when the user hasn't offered a proposed approach.Progress
Status: not started