{
  "slug": "gh-search-issues-adds-semantic-and-hybrid-search-types-1c05eef7ea2f",
  "title": "gh search issues adds semantic and hybrid search types",
  "tools": [
    "gh"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "agent"
  ],
  "introduced_at": "2026-08-20T22:15:58.000Z",
  "announced_at": "2026-08-20T22:15:58.000Z",
  "effective_at": null,
  "date_basis": "source-publication",
  "status": "unknown",
  "how": {
    "incantation": "When searching issues by meaning, use `--search-type semantic`; to combine keyword and semantic ranking, use `--search-type hybrid`.",
    "examples": [
      "gh search issues \"<natural-language query>\" --search-type semantic",
      "gh search issues \"<query>\" --search-type hybrid"
    ],
    "gotchas": [
      "Version: v2.98.0",
      "--search-type <string>: Selects issue search type: `lexical`, `semantic`, or `hybrid`; defaults to `lexical`. Semantic and hybrid results are relevance-ranked, return one page, and cannot be used with `--sort` or `--order`.",
      "<query>: Search query; may use GitHub search syntax. Quote a multi-word phrase as in the documented examples.",
      "Prerequisite: Semantic and hybrid search are unavailable on GitHub Enterprise Server."
    ]
  },
  "why_it_matters": "Search issues from a repository or project using semantic or hybrid matching.",
  "sources": [
    "https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.98.0",
    "https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_search_issues"
  ],
  "rank": 0.94042,
  "judge": {
    "publish": true,
    "judge_model": "codex-cli/gpt-6-luna+typesafe/jev-1.13.0",
    "prompt_version": "extract-v7+enrich-v1+judge-v2x3+jev-publish-v1"
  },
  "review_state": "approved",
  "provenance": {
    "run_id": "augsep-20261008",
    "verdict_id": "augsep-20261008:augsep-20261008-5756cb902e44a452-2:gate",
    "evidence_hash": "3eacf914e4f5f0c6364f46259053f0d94c724c4fe030acb0f0ea7ccca40d74b1"
  },
  "review": {
    "draft_hash": "580558821dec71b806767e00d8df4c4104138ba9e0f5c2af9bd0cc841c24a050",
    "reviewer": "publication-gate",
    "reviewed_at": "2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z",
    "decision": "augsep-20261008:gate",
    "reason": "3 of 3 judge runs approved with p_yes >= 0.9 (mean 0.94 >= 0.9; 2 needed) and Jev gave 0.69 (>= 0.6 needed)."
  }
}