diff --git a/scripts/src/gh.ts b/scripts/src/gh.ts
index c7b143c9..20f99dde 100644
--- a/scripts/src/gh.ts
+++ b/scripts/src/gh.ts
@@ -6732,12 +6732,12 @@ async function issueBoardAudit(repo: string, token: string, options: GitHubOptio
 }
 
 async function issueCreate(repo: string, token: string, options: GitHubOptions): Promise<GitHubCommandResult> {
-  if (options.title === undefined) throw new Error("issue create requires --title <title>");
+  if (options.title === undefined) return withIssueCreateRendered(validationError("issue create", repo, "issue create requires --title <title>"));
   if (options.body !== undefined) {
-    return validationError("issue create", repo, "issue create does not support --body; use --body-stdin with a quoted heredoc for Markdown", {
+    return withIssueCreateRendered(validationError("issue create", repo, "issue create does not support --body; use --body-stdin with a quoted heredoc for Markdown", {
       title: options.title,
       bodySource: "inline",
-    });
+    }));
   }
   const { body, bodySource } = readMarkdownBody({
     ...options,
@@ -6760,16 +6760,16 @@ async function issueCreate(repo: string, token: string, options: GitHubOptions):
   const payload: Record<string, unknown> = { title: options.title, body };
   if (labels.length > 0) payload.labels = labels;
   const issue = await githubRequest<GitHubIssue>(token, "POST", `/repos/${owner}/${name}/issues`, payload);
-  if (isGitHubError(issue)) return commandError("issue create", repo, issue, { title: options.title, labels });
+  if (isGitHubError(issue)) return withIssueCreateRendered(commandError("issue create", repo, issue, { title: options.title, labels }));
   const appliedLabels = issueLabelNames(issue);
   const missingLabels = labels.filter((label) => !appliedLabels.includes(label));
   if (missingLabels.length > 0) {
-    return validationError("issue create", repo, "GitHub created the issue but did not return all requested labels; refusing to report silent label success", {
+    return withIssueCreateRendered(validationError("issue create", repo, "GitHub created the issue but did not return all requested labels; refusing to report silent label success", {
       issue: issueSummary(issue),
       requestedLabels: labels,
       appliedLabels,
       missingLabels,
-    });
+    }));
   }
   return withIssueCreateRendered({ ok: true, command: "issue create", repo, issue: issueSummary(issue), labels, bodySource, rest: true });
 }
@@ -6786,14 +6786,19 @@ function renderIssueCreateTable(result: GitHubCommandResult): string {
   const issue = isRecord(result.issue) ? result.issue : {};
   const number = ghText(issue.number ?? result.number);
   const title = ghText(issue.title ?? result.title);
-  const status = result.dryRun === true ? "dry-run" : "created";
+  const ok = result.ok !== false;
+  const details = isRecord(result.details) ? result.details : {};
+  const status = ok ? (result.dryRun === true ? "dry-run" : "created") : "failed";
+  const reason = ok ? "-" : ghText(result.degradedReason ?? details.degradedReason ?? "validation-failed");
+  const message = ghText(result.message ?? details.message);
   const labels = Array.isArray(result.labels) ? result.labels.map(String).join(",") : ghText(result.labels);
   const lines = [
     `gh issue create (${status})`,
     "",
-    ghTable(["ISSUE", "STATUS", "LABELS", "TITLE"], [[
+    ghTable(["ISSUE", "STATUS", "REASON", "LABELS", "TITLE"], [[
       number === "-" ? "-" : `#${number}`,
       status,
+      ghShort(reason, 32),
       ghShort(labels, 40),
       ghShort(title, 96),
     ]]),
@@ -6803,7 +6808,11 @@ function renderIssueCreateTable(result: GitHubCommandResult): string {
     "",
     "Next:",
   ];
-  if (status === "created" && number !== "-") {
+  if (!ok) {
+    const nextIndex = lines.indexOf("Next:");
+    if (nextIndex >= 0) lines.splice(nextIndex, 0, `  message=${ghShort(message, 160)}`, "");
+    lines.push("  use --body-stdin with a quoted heredoc for Markdown issue bodies");
+  } else if (status === "created" && number !== "-") {
     lines.push(`  bun scripts/cli.ts gh issue view ${number} --repo ${ghText(result.repo)}`);
   } else {
     lines.push("  rerun without --dry-run to create the issue");