Issues
Track issues in your project and hand them to agents to fix — without leaving hob.
hob has a built-in issue tracker that lives inside your project. Create issues, hand them to agents, and track what gets fixed — all without leaving the surface.
Opening the Issues panel
Press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+I to open the Local issues view, or Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+R for the
Remote view. The panel has Local and Remote tabs at the top.
Local issues live in hob's local database, not in your repo — they aren't committed to git. To share one with a teammate, use the issue's Share action (right-click → Share); to push it to your git platform, use Convert to remote.
Creating an issue
Click the + (New issue) button in the panel header. The composer opens with Title and Body fields — fill them in and click Create issue. (The field at the top of the list is a search box, not a create field.)
Agents can create issues too. Issues created by an agent stay linked to the conversation that produced them.
Handing an issue to an agent
Select one or more issues and click Handoff to agent (Cmd/Ctrl+Enter). For remote
issues the button reads Send to agent. hob opens a new agent pane with the issue context
loaded, and the agent starts working.
You can configure what those agents do by default from the panel's settings: permission mode (Ask permission / Approve all), start mode (start immediately or add context first), and the backend, model, and effort.
Status
| Tab | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Open | Not yet resolved. Items an agent is actively working show a spinner. |
| Closed | Resolved, completed, or discarded. |
Switch between Open and Closed at the top of the panel. Closed items batch with a Show more button. Completed items record how they were fixed — the model used and the fixing commit — in their details.
Multi-agent workflow
Each agent is independent, so you can hand different issues to different agents and let them work in parallel across your tiled layout. A typical loop:
- Create a few issues from a code review or bug report.
- Hand off each one — hob opens an agent per issue.
- Agents work in parallel across your panes.
- Review the diffs as each agent finishes.
Local and remote issues
Local issues live in hob's database. If your project has a connected git platform (GitHub, Gitea, or Forgejo), hob can also create, comment on, and close remote issues from the panel or through agents. Remote targeting defaults to your project's git remote; configure platforms and tokens in Settings.
Provenance
Issues keep their link to where they came from. The Activity feed shows issues as artifacts of the conversation that created them, with live status — live, closed, or deleted — and clicking one jumps to it in the Issues panel.
Managing issues by hand
Double-click an issue (or right-click → Edit) to open the editor. The right-click menu also offers:
- Mark done / Reopen
- Discard — move to Closed without deleting
- Delete — remove permanently
- Share and Convert to remote (local issues)
- Handoff to agent
Search and filter with the field at the top of the list.