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Automate GitHub Issue Assignments via Comment Commands

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Created by: Roshan Ramani || rawsun007

Roshan Ramani

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🤖 GitHub Auto-Assign Bot

Streamline your open source project with intelligent issue assignment automation.

✨ What It Does

Automatically assigns GitHub issues to contributors who comment "assign me" - eliminating manual triage work and creating a fair, first-come-first-served system.

🔑 Key Features

  • Smart Detection:
    Monitors both new issues and comments for assignment requests
  • Conflict Prevention:
    Checks existing assignments before making new ones
  • Auto-Labeling:
    Adds "assigned" labels for better tracking
  • Self-Service Assignment:
    Contributors claim issues with simple "assign me" command
  • Polite Responses:
    Automatically notifies when issues are already assigned

🎯 Perfect For

  • Open source maintainers
  • Development teams managing GitHub repos
  • Projects with active contributor communities
  • Anyone reducing manual issue management

⚙️ Setup Requirements

  1. GitHub repository with issues enabled
  2. n8n instance with GitHub OAuth credentials
  3. 5 minutes configuration time

🚀 How Contributors Use It

  1. Find an unassigned issue
  2. Comment assign me
  3. Get automatically assigned
  4. Start coding immediately → no maintainer approval needed!

✅ Benefits

  • Reduces maintainer workload - No manual assignments
  • Faster contributor onboarding - Instant self-service
  • Prevents conflicts - Built-in assignment checking
  • Scales automatically - Works across unlimited issues
  • Improves contributor experience - Simple, clear process

⚡ Workflow Triggers

  • New GitHub issues containing "assign me"
  • New comments with "assign me" on existing issues
  • Automatic label management
  • Conflict resolution responses

Transform your GitHub workflow - Perfect for growing open source projects and development teams!