What happens to issues I care about?

Issues carrying labels you exempt are skipped entirely; the sweep never marks them stale or closes them.

How often does it run?

It runs a sweep daily, marking inactive issues stale and closing them if nothing changes.

Does it close issues immediately?

No. Issues are first marked stale after inactivity, and are only closed if nothing changes after that.

Stale Issue Sweep

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Stale Issue Sweep is an automation that keeps an issue tracker tidy by running a daily sweep over inactive issues. It marks issues as stale after a period of inactivity and closes them if nothing changes, while skipping any labels you exempt. This keeps the issues that matter visible instead of buried under dead ones.

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Have an issue tracker with inactive issues that need cleaning up.

What your AI can do with it

Runs a daily sweep of the issue tracker
Marks issues as stale after inactivity
Closes issues that remain inactive after being marked stale
Exempts chosen labels so those issues are never touched

Getting started

Have an issue tracker with inactive issues that need cleaning up.
Add the Stale Issue Sweep automation.
Configure which labels should be exempt from the sweep.
Let the daily sweep run and review the stale and closed issues it produces.

Signals

GitHub stars: 98k
Forks: 11k
Last commit: Sep 2026

Questions

What happens to issues I care about?: Issues carrying labels you exempt are skipped entirely; the sweep never marks them stale or closes them.
How often does it run?: It runs a sweep daily, marking inactive issues stale and closing them if nothing changes.
Does it close issues immediately?: No. Issues are first marked stale after inactivity, and are only closed if nothing changes after that.

Advanced

Item type: automation
Key: stale-issue-sweep
Source: github.com/nexu-io/open-design

github.com/nexu-io/open-design