Problem
The Agents page is where people start work, but it always starts blank. The work they have already been assigned lives in Linear, GitHub, Jira, GitLab and similar trackers, so today they copy issue links into the prompt by hand. Nothing in Coder shows what is on their plate or connects an issue to the agent working on it.
Proposal
Show open issues assigned to the signed-in user under the prompt on the Agents landing page, and let them start an agent on any item with one click. The issue's title, description, comments and linked PRs are attached to the chat as context. Items that already have a chat link to it instead.
Assigned work inbox
Start agent from an issue
Nothing connected yet
Scope
- Read-only sync of open issues assigned to the user from connected trackers: key or number, title, project or repo, state, URL, last updated.
- "Assigned to you" list on the Agents landing page. Each row shows the source icon, the key linking out to the tracker, a status badge, and Start agent or Open chat.
- Start agent creates a chat with the issue attached as context and a default prompt the user can edit before sending.
- Empty state when no tracker is connected, with Connect buttons that reuse the deployment's existing external auth providers. Hidden entirely when the deployment has none.
- Filter by source, manual refresh, and a link to manage connections.
- Docs: how assigned issues appear on the Agents page and how to connect a tracker.
Out of scope for now
- Writing back to the tracker: status changes, comments, PR links.
- Webhooks or real-time push. Fetching on page load with a manual refresh is enough for a first version.
- Trackers without an existing external auth provider.
Open questions
- Order of trackers. GitHub first since external auth for it is already common, then Linear and Jira.
- Where the chat to issue mapping lives so Open chat still resolves after reload.
- Whether the list is scoped per organization or shows the user's issues across all of them.
Problem
The Agents page is where people start work, but it always starts blank. The work they have already been assigned lives in Linear, GitHub, Jira, GitLab and similar trackers, so today they copy issue links into the prompt by hand. Nothing in Coder shows what is on their plate or connects an issue to the agent working on it.
Proposal
Show open issues assigned to the signed-in user under the prompt on the Agents landing page, and let them start an agent on any item with one click. The issue's title, description, comments and linked PRs are attached to the chat as context. Items that already have a chat link to it instead.
Assigned work inbox
Start agent from an issue
Nothing connected yet
Scope
Out of scope for now
Open questions