Automate GitHub Issue Assignments via Comment Commands

🤖 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