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See which GitHub milestones are at risk, and why
For project managers who want milestone progress and the issues holding it up, without a weekly status meeting, by asking their AI assistant.
On this page
Connector
Connect GitHub, pick your AI tool and paste the prompt.
The problem
Milestone status turns into a weekly meeting
Knowing whether GitHub milestones will land on time means checking counts, due dates and open issues, then spotting work with no owner or no recent activity. It becomes a manual status meeting every week.
Without PopdockAI
- Open each milestone for counts and due date
- Scan open issues for owners
- Check when each was last updated
- Talk it through in a status meeting
With PopdockAI
- Each open milestone and its open work are read
- Percent complete is calculated with overdue and at risk marked
- Issues with no assignee or no update in 14 days are flagged
- Decisions needed are summarised, and nothing is written back
The prompt
Use this prompt
Copy it into any AI tool connected to PopdockAI. Swap the values in braces for your own.
**Objective:** Report the progress of the open milestones in `{repository}`, or only the milestone titled `{milestone-title}` when it is given, and call out the ones at risk of missing their due date.
**Step 1: Load the milestones**
Call `github-get-milestone` with company `{repository}`, state `open`, and title set to `{milestone-title}` when it is given. Record open-issues, closed-issues, due-date and milestone-number for each.
**Step 2: Load the open work for each milestone**
For each milestone call `github-get-issue` with company `{repository}`, milestone-title set to the milestone's title, and status `open`. For each open issue note its assignee, labels and updated-date.
**Step 3: Assess risk**
* Percent complete is closed-issues divided by open-issues plus closed-issues.
* Overdue: due-date is in the past and open-issues is above zero.
* At risk: due in the next 14 days with more than a quarter of issues still open.
* Flag open issues with no assignee, and open issues not updated in the last 14 days.
* A milestone with no due-date cannot be at risk; list it as unscheduled.
**Step 4: Report**
* A table: milestone title, due-date, percent complete, open, closed, and status (on track, at risk, overdue, unscheduled).
* For each at-risk or overdue milestone, the open issues holding it up: issue-number, title, assignee, days since last update.
* A one-paragraph summary of what needs a decision (cut scope, move the date, or add an owner).
**Rules & Guidelines:**
* This prompt is read-only. Do NOT call `github-update-milestone`, `github-add-milestone`, `github-update-issue`, `github-add-issue-assignee` or `github-add-issue-comment`.
* Use today's date to judge overdue and at risk, and state the date you used.
**Validation:**
* If no open milestones are returned, say so and stop.
* If `{milestone-title}` matches more than one milestone, list them and ask which one to report on.Who it's for
One answer, three teams that use it
Project managers
Replace the status meeting
A status table with the issues holding up each risky milestone is ready before the meeting.
Which milestones in fabrikam/app are overdue or at risk this week?
Team leads
Find unowned and idle issues
Open issues with no assignee or no recent update are flagged on each milestone.
On the v5.0 milestone in contoso/api, which open issues have no owner or no update in two weeks?
Product managers
Know what decisions are needed
A short summary of decisions needed helps you bring risky milestones back on track.
What decisions do we need to make to land the open milestones in northwind/web?
How it works
What PopdockAI does when you ask
You name the repository and optionally one milestone, and your AI assistant assesses each one with stated rules. The date used for judging is stated.
01
Ask
You name the repository and optionally one milestone.
02
Read
It reads each open milestone and its open issues.
03
Assess
It marks milestones overdue, at risk or unscheduled and flags unowned or idle issues.
04
Report
You get a status table, the blocking issues and the decisions needed.
What PopdockAI provides
The tools behind the answer
Ready made tools for GitHub and one secure connection to your AI tool. No code, no exports.
github-get-milestone
github-get-issue
This report is built from Get data tools only. PopdockAI applies the row, field and parameter rules your admin sets, and every query is written to the audit trail.
The outcome
Milestones at risk, visible early
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