Where requests already exist in a tracker, import them rather than retyping. Coroid imports from Jira, Linear, Trello and GitHub Issues.
Start from New Work → Import issues. Choose the provider and the project, fetch the open items, select the ones you want and choose Import selected.
Every item is qualified first
Imported items do not go straight to an agent. Each one goes through the same Qualification as a request typed into New Work: Coroid screens it for sensitive values, checks it against the current release, looks for duplicates, verifies or reproduces what it can, and settles whether it should be a task or a plan.
This is the most important property of the feature. A backlog is a wish list containing duplicates, stale items, things already fixed and things nobody has agreed to build. Pointing an autonomous system at it without that filter would be expensive and wrong.
The import page shows each item's Qualification state as it runs.
What happens to each item
- Qualified items become a task or a plan, whichever Qualification judged the work to be. A new task joins the queue straight away.
- Duplicates are merged into the request that already covers them, and already fixed items create no work.
- Items that are not reproducible, rejected or need review wait under Factory → Review. Close them, or have someone with permission create the work anyway with a recorded reason.
Imported tickets skew larger than they look. A ticket written as a single sentence frequently describes a week of work, because the person writing it had the decomposition in their head. That is one reason Qualification assesses scope before choosing between a task and a plan.
Imported issues make imperfect specifications
A ticket written for a human colleague usually assumes shared context: an in-person conversation, a shared understanding of the system, a "you know what I mean".
Coroid turns the imported text into a specification — read it before approving. Imported work is where under-specification most often shows up, because nobody wrote the ticket expecting it to be executed literally.
Keeping the queue honest
Review what Qualification stopped regularly. A queue of requests that need review and nobody looks at is a backlog with extra steps.