GitHub Issues API Docs

Portfolio guides

Github Issues API Guides

Task-focused guides that complement the OpenAPI reference docs (Redoc).

Guides

Audience: Developers integrating with the GitHub Issues REST API (portfolio subset)

Scope: Task-based documentation that complements the rendered OpenAPI reference docs. These guides are designed to be readable on GitHub and easy to link from a docs site.

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Release notes and migration

What these guides add (beyond the OpenAPI spec)

  • Fast onboarding path (quickstart)
  • Evidence-backed notes on defaults, caps, and invalid inputs
  • Troubleshooting patterns with saved examples
  • A reproducible support/reporting checklist

Known limitations (by design)

  • This is not a full GitHub REST API specification. It covers only endpoints and behaviors verified in the included test suite and evidence artifacts.
  • Evidence reflects observations during 2025-12-10 to 2026-01-06 (ET); GitHub behavior may change over time.
  • Authentication is documented at a practical level (Bearer token), but token scope and org policy outcomes are environment-specific.
  • Rate limiting is referenced via headers, but rate-limit behavior is not exhaustively tested in this portfolio scope.

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