GitHub issue triage

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Lets your agent prioritize GitHub issues and add acceptance criteria before labeling them ready for development.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

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Then ask your AI: use the GitHub issue triage skill

About this capability

Prioritize open issues and establish acceptance criteria before marking them ready for development.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by openhands/extensions in skills/github-issue-triage/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Prioritize open issues and establish acceptance criteria before marking them ready for development.

Create this automation separately from implementation and review. Use a fine-grained GitHub PAT limited to the selected repositories with Issues: read and write. Never put the token value in the automation definition or prompt.

Package worker.py with the shared github_client.py and agent_conversation.py helpers. Supply config.json with repos and the saved GitHub secret name; the entrypoint is python3 worker.py. Include that secret in the selected profile so the delegated agent can use GitHub. Naming it in the automation does not grant it to the agent.

The scanner is an ordinary Automation host command. It submits selected issues through the shared KV-backed conversation dispatcher, which creates or resumes one stable conversation per issue through the Software Agent SDK. Only that agent workspace is local or Docker. Automation owns scheduling, cancellation, and cleanup.

Honor Depends on: #12, #13 lines. A dependency must be closed as completed. Post readable acceptance criteria and rationale. Add ready-for-dev only when criteria are actionable; preserve existing issue labels. Unclear issues stay open for clarification. Do not implement code or accept pull requests.

Each scheduled run submits every changed eligible issue. A failure on one issue is reported and does not prevent the remaining issues from being submitted.

Signals

GitHub stars
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Last commit
Sep 2026

ahel review

  • S4info
    community integration, published by openhands, not github

Automated review, not a security audit. Ruleset v1+k2.

Advanced
Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
github-issue-triage-openhands
Source
github.com/openhands/extensions