Autonomous detection of compound issue requests in an issue tracking system

A method for operating an issue tracking system to suggest to divide an issue request into two or more issue requests to a client application on a client device that is communicably coupled to the issue tracking system, the method comprising:

• receive an issue request from the client application;
• extract a content item from the issue request;
• and
• upon determining that the content item satisfies a threshold:
• transmitting a signal to the client application, the signal comprising a suggestion to subdivide the issue request into a set of two or more issue requests;
• and
• causing a display of the client application to present the set of two or more issue requests to a user of the client application.

An issue tracking system for suggesting one or more issues to a client application on a client device that is communicably coupled to the issue tracking system, the issue tracking system comprising:

• a host service;
• and
• a database communicably coupled to the host service;
• wherein the host service is configured to:
• receive a first content item of a first issue request from the client application;
• identify a second issue request comprising a second content item that satisfies a similarity threshold when compared to the first content item;
• access the database to identify a third issue request tagged as a subtask of the second issue request;
• generate a first issue request template from the second issue request;
• generate a second issue request template from the third issue request;
• and
• transmit a suggestion to replace the first issue request with the first and second issue request templates to the client application.