📋 Automate GitHub Issue Assignments via Comment Commands
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Description
🤖 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
- GitHub repository with issues enabled
- n8n instance with GitHub OAuth credentials
- 5 minutes configuration time
🚀 How Contributors Use It
- Find an unassigned issue
- Comment
assign me - Get automatically assigned
- 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!
🔗 Nodes Used
GitHub, Github Trigger
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File