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Start work from the issue and keep your session when it becomes a PR

Start work from the issue and keep your session when it becomes a PR. When a closing pull request appears, lazybox carries the work forward into the PR workspace instead of making you restart the agent or copy context into a second terminal.

Before you start

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You need:

  • a GitHub repository whose issues and pull requests are visible in lazybox;
  • an issue workspace in that repository; and
  • a pull request that tells GitHub it closes the issue.

The reliable way to create the relationship is a closing line in the PR body:

Closes #42.

Replace 42 with the issue number. Fixes and Resolves closing keywords work too. When you start an issue with w w, lazybox’s implementation brief already asks the agent to create a PR with the closing line.

Carry the issue session into its PR

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  1. Select the issue in the sidebar and press w w. The default agent starts in a dedicated worktree with the issue as its brief.
  2. Let the agent open a pull request whose body closes the issue. You can also open the PR yourself; the relationship in GitHub is what matters.
  3. Wait for the PR to sync, or press Shift-R to refresh.
  4. If the issue has a running terminal, lazybox asks whether to join the issue’s sessions into the PR workspace. Press Enter to accept.
  5. Continue from the PR row. The terminal is the same live terminal, now attached to the PR’s reviews, checks, and activity.

If the issue has no live terminal, lazybox joins it automatically without a prompt. Recoverable session records still move to the PR; the prompt exists only to keep running work from changing rows without your approval.

Join later with x j

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If you decline the automatic prompt, the issue and PR remain separate for the current lazybox run. To carry the session over later:

  1. Select the issue workspace.
  2. Press x, then j (join into PR).

The PR must already be synced and must close the selected issue. If lazybox says that no PR closes the issue, check the PR body for a closing keyword and press Shift-R. Because x j is an explicit request, it performs the join without showing the automatic confirmation again.

What stays with you

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The join preserves the working context rather than starting a replacement:

  • every running agent and shell terminal, including its process, scrollback, composer draft, and prompt history;
  • the session worktree and local edits, including uncommitted or unpushed work;
  • the issue’s activity and read/unread state alongside the PR’s activity;
  • workspace notes, recent snippets, and applicable automation settings.

If the PR already has a terminal or a worktree containing real work, lazybox keeps it too. Only an unused, pristine PR-side stub may be retired in favor of the issue worktree that contains the implementation.

The issue’s standalone inbox row disappears, and the PR row becomes the single home for the combined work. The linked issue, its activity, and the transferred session remain part of that workspace.

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