it'd be nice to be able to have something similar to the way #123 autolinkifies in other git forges. given that pulls and issues don't seem to share a unified numbering scheme like in some other forges, this'd probably have to include a kind identifier.
you could require markdown reference links, similarly to how rustdoc uses them, which would make searching for/parsing a bit easier/less ambiguous. something like:
[issues#123]--> current repo, issue #123[pulls#123]--> current repo, pull #123[@tangled.org/core/issues#123]--> specific repo, issue #123