Things I’d recommend checking out:

• start using dired as a file manager.
• get comfortable with macros.
• hyperbole as a bookmark manager on steroids (specifically explicit buttons).
• find a templating system for standard document/code generation (I use yasnippet after failing to make sense of srecode).
• write an interactive emacs lisp function to solve a text editing problem; extra credit for clever use of temporary buffers.

My general thought:

(defun zzz (elt)
   (let ((file (car elt))
            (repo (cadr elt))
             (st (caddr elt))
             (is (cadddr elt))
       (progn (find-file file)
         (search-forward repo)
         (switch-me-to-interactive-node-until-i hit-a-hotkey st is)
         (save-buffer)
         (kill-buffer))))

It’s the switch-me function that I’m not sure how to approach.

What kind of URL and what version of hyperbole? I’ve seen something similar where certain types of URLs (notably ones that looked like a Jira id) broke hyperbole’s implicit button recognition code…but only for URLs in that format.