Add meaningful title validation for issue creation#4
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This PR enhances the GitHub MCP Server's issue creation functionality by implementing comprehensive title validation to ensure issues have meaningful, substantive titles rather than placeholder text.
Problem
The existing validation only checked for empty titles, allowing users to create issues with placeholder text like "Title", "TODO", or meaningless content like "!!!" or "Hi". This led to low-quality issues that don't provide clear information about the problem or request.
Solution
Added a new
RequiredMeaningfulTitlevalidation function that enforces:Example
Changes
RequiredMeaningfulTitlefunction inpkg/github/server.goCreateIssueto use the enhanced validationThe validation provides helpful, specific error messages for each failure case, guiding users to create better titles.
Fixes github#3.
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