[Multica] Evaluate Multica as issue tracker and agent orchestration platform

[dnovick]

Goal

Evaluate Multica as a replacement for GitHub Issues (berean-bible-bots) and Linear (BTP/Mark). berean-bible-bots is the designated test vehicle. Produce a recommendation: adopt, defer, or reject.

Background

• David currently uses GitHub Issues for berean-bible-bots.
• Mark uses Linear for BTP projects (including bedrock-chat and law-hipaa-deployment).
• Both David and Mark want a unified platform for agent orchestration AND issue tracking.
• Multica appears to have both built in. This issue tracks the evaluation.

See #582 for the full conversation context.

Evaluation Criteria

Issue Tracking

• Does Multica support P1–P4 priority levels (matching Foundry's issue-triage-standard)?
• Does it support Timing buckets (Now / This month / This quarter / Later / Someday)?
• Can existing GitHub issues be imported?
• Does it support label groups / milestones / cycles?
• Can external users report issues (like GitHub Issues allows)?
• What is the GitHub integration story?

Agent Orchestration

• Can Multica dispatch tasks to AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc.)?
• Does it support multi-step workflows / pipelines?
• Can it be driven via CLI or API (so Claude can interact with it programmatically)?
• How does it handle session continuity across context resets?
• Does it support parallel agent fan-out?

Migration

• What is the effort to replicate ~570+ GitHub issues into Multica?
• What is the effort to migrate Mark's Linear issues into Multica?
• Is there a Linear export → Multica import path?

Integration

• Can Multica sync bidirectionally with GitHub Issues?
• Can it trigger GitHub Actions on issue state changes?

Action Items

• Set up a Multica account/workspace
• Configure a test project mirroring berean-bible-bots issue structure
• Replicate a representative sample (~20) of GitHub issues into Multica
• Test agent orchestration: have Claude drive a task via Multica
• Assess GitHub integration options (see [Multica] GitHub ↔ Multica integration for external issue reporting #586)
• Review Mark's Linear setup and compare (see [Multica] Configure Multica project structure based on Mark's Linear setup #585)
• Produce evaluation report with go/no-go recommendation

Dependencies

• [BTP/Foundry] Assess Foundry applicability to berean-bible-bots and begin alignment #583 (Foundry alignment — defines what issue-tracking must support)
• [Multica] Configure Multica project structure based on Mark's Linear setup #585 (Configure Multica based on Mark's Linear setup)
• [Multica] GitHub ↔ Multica integration for external issue reporting #586 (GitHub ↔ Multica integration)