Log refactor follow-up items as GitHub issues (Pi for Excel)
Session from pi-for-excel-sessions on Hugging Face by thomasmustier · MIT · condensed by Coders Talk
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GOAL
Research the existing Excel add-in codebase and GitHub issue backlog to draft and file a set of GitHub issues capturing feature ideas (sessions, web search/MCP, security, versioning, auditability, multi-workbook, file artifacts) to plan around an upcoming refactor.
- +0Prompt · +0Log a list of feature ideas (sessions/resume, web search+MCP, python+LibreOffice access, security hardening, version control/recovery, file auditability/diff view, formula tracing) as GitHub issues to account for during an upcoming refactor.
- +0mAgent did · +0mSearched existing GitHub issues for overlap and explored the codebase (storage, sessions, auth, tools, extensions) to ground each proposed issue in the actual implementation.
- +4mPrompt · +4mAlso add an issue for an AGENTS.md equivalent for workbooks — behavior and UI/UX to be decided.
- +4mAgent did · +4mContinued reading relevant source (trace-dependencies, conventions, extensions) then drafted 8 issue bodies as markdown files covering sessions, web search+MCP, python/LibreOffice, security, versioning/recovery, auditability/diff view, formula tracing, and workbook AGENTS.md.
- +9mAgent did · +9mWrote the 8 drafted markdown files to /tmp and created 8 labeled GitHub issues (#23–#30) via gh issue create, reporting back links for each.
- Break · 30m away, not counted
- +10mPrompt · +10mAlso want file storage/artifacts for the assistant (upload PDFs, skills, local filesystem access) and to decide multi-workbook behavior (separate chats per workbook).
- +12mAgent did · +12mSearched for related existing issues, then drafted and filed a multi-workbook design issue.
- +14mPrompt · +14mAssistant should be able to share files with the user for review/editing; also add Skill support to the web search + MCP issue.
- +15mAgent did · +15mUpdated issue #24 to include Skills support, and drafted/filed a new file artifacts/workspace issue (#32) plus the multi-workbook issue (#31).
- +16mOutcome · +16mFiled 10 new GitHub issues (#23–#32) and updated one existing issue, cataloguing all pre-refactor feature ideas for planning.
VERDICT
Next time I'd give the agent my full list of ideas up front, including the file-storage and multi-workbook points I only added later, so it doesn't have to file issues in two separate batches. Having it grep the existing codebase and search prior issues before drafting each one worked well and kept the issues grounded rather than generic wishlist text.