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Issue Planner is available for GitHub Cloud only. GitHub Enterprise Server is not yet supported.

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Initiating Planning

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Manual Planning

There are two ways to trigger Planning manually:

CodeRabbit Command

Comment @coderabbitai plan on any GitHub Issue to generate a plan.

Checkbox

When Issue Enrichment is enabled, CodeRabbit posts a comment on new issues with a Create Plan checkbox. Check the box to generate a plan.
Automatically generate plans when specific labels are added to issues. 
issue_enrichment:
  planning:
    enabled: true
    auto_planning:
      enabled: true
      labels:
        - "plan-me" # Auto-plan issues with this label
        - "feature" # Also auto-plan these
        - "!no-plan" # Never auto-plan issues with this label

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Label Matching Rules

ConfigurationBehavior
Inclusion only (e.g., feature)Plans only issues with at least one matching label
Exclusion only (e.g., !wip)Plans all issues except those with excluded labels
Mixed (e.g., feature, !wip)Plans issues that have an inclusion label AND don’t have any exclusion labels
Exclusion labels (starting with !) always take priority over inclusion labels.

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Viewing and Refining Plans

Once a Coding Plan is generated, CodeRabbit posts the full plan as a comment on the issue.
Coding Plan posted as a comment on a GitHub issue

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Chatting about Your Plan

Reply to the Coding Plan comment on the issue to:
  • Ask questions about the plan or the codebase
  • Request changes to specific tasks or phases
  • Challenge design choices and provide additional context
  • Get clarification on implementation details
Discuss the Coding Plan with CodeRabbit

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Re-planning

Once asked to make changes, CodeRabbit will respond to your comment and update the plan accordingly. You can also comment @coderabbitai plan again on the issue to regenerate the plan from scratch.

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Handing Off to a Coding Agent

Copy the agentic prompts from the Coding Plan comment on the issue, and paste them into your preferred coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, etc.). Alternatively, if your coding agent can access GitHub directly (for example, through the GitHub MCP), you can simply ask it to fetch the issue by its number and execute CodeRabbit's plan.