Issue added to a Project (v2) does not appear on the board or in the items list until later; setting its Status makes it show up on the board

[akpmohan07]

What happens
After adding an issue to a user-owned Project (v2), the item is not visible on the board. It is a member of the project according to the issue itself, but the project's own item list does not include it.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create an issue in a public repository.
2. Add it to a user-owned Project (v2). I tried both the web UI and the CLI (gh project item-add <number> --owner <owner> --url <issue-url>, gh 2.87.2). Same result both ways.
3. Open the project board. The item is not there.
4. Set the item's Status field (single select). The item now appears on the board.

What I checked through the API (GraphQL)

• The issue's projectItems lists the project, isArchived: false.
• A direct lookup of the item by its node id returns it, in the project, with the Status I set.
• The project's items connection (and gh project item-list) does not include it: totalCount stayed at 7 while 2 new items had been added.
• Several minutes later one of the two items had appeared (totalCount 8) and the other, added earlier, still had not. So it is inconsistent, not simply first-in-first-out.

Expected
A newly added item shows up on the board and in the items list right away, whether or not it has a Status.

Environment
Project (v2) owned by a user account, public repo, browser UI and gh 2.87.2 on macOS. Date: 2026-09-24.

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