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GitHub Issue Triage

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GitHub Issue Triage in OpenClaw summarizes issues, applies labels, and routes tickets to the right owners so engineering teams can resolve work faster.

v1.2.0 MIT 1.2k githubtriageautomation
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openclaw config set skills.github-issues true
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📖 Overview

Automate your GitHub issue management. OpenClaw can summarize, categorize, label, and route issues to the right team members - all from your messaging app. GitHub Issue Triage It is built for daily operations: complete setup, connect required secrets, and run natural-language requests with predictable, repeatable output.

📦 Installation

1 
openclaw config set skills.github-issues true
2 
openclaw config set github.token $GITHUB_TOKEN

🔑 Required Secrets

  • GITHUB_TOKEN

⚙️ Configuration 

skills:
  github-issues:
    token: ${GITHUB_TOKEN}
    repos:
      - owner/repo-name
    auto_label: true
    auto_assign: true

💬 Commands

Command Description
Summarize issues from [repo] Get a summary of open issues
Label issue #123 as bug Add labels to specific issues
Close stale issues older than 30 days Bulk close inactive issues

💡 Examples

"Summarize new issues from this week and label duplicates."

"Close issues marked invalid and notify the author."

"Show me all P0 bugs assigned to my team."

🛡️ Permissions

github.readgithub.write

🔗 Compatibility

Minimum Version

2026.1.0

Supported Channels

telegramwhatsappdiscord

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