diff --git a/bin/internal/update_dart_sdk.sh b/bin/internal/update_dart_sdk.sh
index 67d9cdc6c9..148f46c106 100755
--- a/bin/internal/update_dart_sdk.sh
+++ b/bin/internal/update_dart_sdk.sh
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ if [ ! -f "$ENGINE_STAMP" ] || [ "$ENGINE_VERSION" != `cat "$ENGINE_STAMP"` ]; t
     >&2 echo
     >&2 echo "It appears that the downloaded file is corrupt; please try again."
     >&2 echo "If this problem persists, please report the problem at:"
-    >&2 echo "  https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/new?template=ACTIVATION.md"
+    >&2 echo "  https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/new?template=1_activation.md"
     >&2 echo
     rm -f -- "$DART_SDK_ZIP"
     exit 1
diff --git a/dev/bots/analyze.dart b/dev/bots/analyze.dart
index a642f49c15..794d5b10b5 100644
--- a/dev/bots/analyze.dart
+++ b/dev/bots/analyze.dart
@@ -51,12 +51,15 @@ Future<void> run(List<String> arguments) async {
     exitWithError(<String>['The analyze.dart script must be run with --enable-asserts.']);
   }
 
-  print('$clock runtimeType in toString...');
+  print('$clock No runtimeType in toString...');
   await verifyNoRuntimeTypeInToString(flutterRoot);
 
-  print('$clock debug mode instead of checked mode...');
+  print('$clock Debug mode instead of checked mode...');
   await verifyNoCheckedMode(flutterRoot);
 
+  print('$clock Links for creating GitHub issues');
+  await verifyIssueLinks(flutterRoot);
+
   print('$clock Unexpected binaries...');
   await verifyNoBinaries(flutterRoot);
 
@@ -728,6 +731,81 @@ Future<void> verifyNoTrailingSpaces(String workingDirectory, { int minimumMatche
     exitWithError(problems);
 }
 
+String _bullets(String value) => ' * $value';
+
+Future<void> verifyIssueLinks(String workingDirectory) async {
+  const String issueLinkPrefix = 'https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/new';
+  const Set<String> stops = <String>{ '\n', ' ', "'", '"', r'\', ')', '>' };
+  assert(!stops.contains('.')); // instead of "visit https://foo." say "visit: https://", it copy-pastes better
+  const String kGiveTemplates =
+    'Prefer to provide a link either to $issueLinkPrefix/choose (the list of issue '
+    'templates) or to a specific template directly ($issueLinkPrefix?template=...).\n';
+  final Set<String> templateNames =
+    Directory(path.join(workingDirectory, '.github', 'ISSUE_TEMPLATE'))
+      .listSync()
+      .whereType<File>()
+      .where((File file) => path.extension(file.path) == '.md')
+      .map<String>((File file) => path.basename(file.path))
+      .toSet();
+  final String kTemplates = 'The available templates are:\n${templateNames.map(_bullets).join("\n")}';
+  final List<String> problems = <String>[];
+  final Set<String> suggestions = <String>{};
+  final List<File> files = await _gitFiles(workingDirectory);
+  for (final File file in files) {
+    if (path.basename(file.path).endsWith('_test.dart'))
+      continue; // Skip tests, they're not public-facing.
+    final Uint8List bytes = file.readAsBytesSync();
+    // We allow invalid UTF-8 here so that binaries don't trip us up.
+    // There's a separate test in this file that verifies that all text
+    // files are actually valid UTF-8 (see verifyNoBinaries below).
+    final String contents = utf8.decode(bytes, allowMalformed: true);
+    int start = 0;
+    while ((start = contents.indexOf(issueLinkPrefix, start)) >= 0) {
+      int end = start + issueLinkPrefix.length;
+      while (end < contents.length && !stops.contains(contents[end])) {
+        end += 1;
+      }
+      final String url = contents.substring(start, end);
+      if (url == issueLinkPrefix) {
+        if (file.path != path.join(workingDirectory, 'dev', 'bots', 'analyze.dart')) {
+          problems.add('${file.path} contains a direct link to $issueLinkPrefix.');
+          suggestions.add(kGiveTemplates);
+          suggestions.add(kTemplates);
+        }
+      } else if (url.startsWith('$issueLinkPrefix?')) {
+        final Uri parsedUrl = Uri.parse(url);
+        final List<String>? templates = parsedUrl.queryParametersAll['template'];
+        if (templates == null) {
+          problems.add('${file.path} contains $url, which has no "template" argument specified.');
+          suggestions.add(kGiveTemplates);
+          suggestions.add(kTemplates);
+        } else if (templates.length != 1) {
+          problems.add('${file.path} contains $url, which has ${templates.length} templates specified.');
+          suggestions.add(kGiveTemplates);
+          suggestions.add(kTemplates);
+        } else if (!templateNames.contains(templates.single)) {
+          problems.add('${file.path} contains $url, which specifies a non-existent template ("${templates.single}").');
+          suggestions.add(kTemplates);
+        } else if (parsedUrl.queryParametersAll.keys.length > 1) {
+          problems.add('${file.path} contains $url, which the analyze.dart script is not sure how to handle.');
+          suggestions.add('Update analyze.dart to handle the URLs above, or change them to the expected pattern.');
+        }
+      } else if (url != '$issueLinkPrefix/choose') {
+        problems.add('${file.path} contains $url, which the analyze.dart script is not sure how to handle.');
+        suggestions.add('Update analyze.dart to handle the URLs above, or change them to the expected pattern.');
+      }
+      start = end;
+    }
+  }
+  assert(problems.isEmpty == suggestions.isEmpty);
+  if (problems.isNotEmpty) {
+    exitWithError(<String>[
+      ...problems,
+      ...suggestions,
+    ]);
+  }
+}
+
 @immutable
 class Hash256 {
   const Hash256(this.a, this.b, this.c, this.d);
@@ -1163,7 +1241,7 @@ Future<void> verifyNoBinaries(String workingDirectory, { Set<Hash256>? legacyBin
   );
   legacyBinaries ??= _legacyBinaries;
   if (!Platform.isWindows) { // TODO(ianh): Port this to Windows
-    final List<File> files = await _gitFiles(workingDirectory, runSilently: false);
+    final List<File> files = await _gitFiles(workingDirectory);
     final List<String> problems = <String>[];
     for (final File file in files) {
       final Uint8List bytes = file.readAsBytesSync();
diff --git a/dev/bots/test/analyze_test.dart b/dev/bots/test/analyze_test.dart
index 04e6a4b61e..5ba5ff4b0f 100644
--- a/dev/bots/test/analyze_test.dart
+++ b/dev/bots/test/analyze_test.dart
@@ -156,9 +156,7 @@ void main() {
       legacyBinaries: <Hash256>{const Hash256(0x39A050CD69434936, 0, 0, 0)},
     ), exitCode: Platform.isWindows ? 0 : 1);
     if (!Platform.isWindows) {
-      // The output starts with the call to git ls-files, the details of which
-      // change from run to run, so we only check the trailing end of the output.
-      expect(result, endsWith('\n'
+      expect(result,
         '━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n'
         'test/analyze-test-input/root/packages/foo/serviceaccount.enc:0: file is not valid UTF-8\n'
         'All files in this repository must be UTF-8. In particular, images and other binaries\n'
@@ -167,7 +165,7 @@ void main() {
         'to which you need access, you should consider how to fetch it from another repository;\n'
         'for example, the "assets-for-api-docs" repository is used for images in API docs.\n'
         '━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n'
-      ));
+      );
     }
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/reporting/github_template.dart b/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/reporting/github_template.dart
index f98d1b038e..ed13ad1661 100644
--- a/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/reporting/github_template.dart
+++ b/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/reporting/github_template.dart
@@ -110,8 +110,9 @@ $doctorText
 ${_projectMetadataInformation()}
 ''';
 
-    final String fullURL = 'https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/new?'
-      'title=${Uri.encodeQueryComponent(title)}'
+    final String fullURL = 'https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues'
+      '/new' // We split this here to appease our lint that looks for bad "new bug" links.
+      '?title=${Uri.encodeQueryComponent(title)}'
       '&body=${Uri.encodeQueryComponent(body)}'
       '&labels=${Uri.encodeQueryComponent('tool,severe: crash')}';