do I need to clone a repository in order to create and change issues?

Hi

I am just starting to use forge and I like very much the possiblity to generate, reply etc issues in a given repository, especially using markdown.

But it seems to be that I have to clone first the repository in question (which might be cumbersome if the repository is large)
is my understanding correct or do I miss here something?

regards

Uwe Brauer