Triage notifications from your GitHub projects with an agent
A developer with several popular open source projects got about 215 GitHub notifications a day. He built the agent Copilot Triage, which runs on his GitHub Copilot allowance, reads every issue and pull request, and sorts everything on a board by what it needs from him. It costs about a cent or less per report, and merging is always up to him. Labels were right 95 percent of the time, but only a third of its replies actually helped anyone.
Done with CopilotModerate
What was done
A developer with several popular open source projects got about 215 GitHub notifications a day. He built the agent Copilot Triage, which runs on his GitHub Copilot allowance, reads every issue and pull request, and sorts everything on a board by what it needs from him. It costs about a cent or less per report, and merging is always up to him. Labels were right 95 percent of the time, but only a third of its replies actually helped anyone.
How to do it
- Paste the prompt into the tool, and replace the text in brackets with your own.
- Read the answer through. Do not send, delete or publish anything until you have seen it yourself.
- Check the original before you trust a figure, a name or a date.
Try it with Copilot
Go through all new issues and pull requests in [repo] since [date]. Sort each into four groups: ready for my sign off, needs a decision from me, work that is mine, and waiting on others. Give each a priority and one next step, and suggest labels. Reply to no one yourself. Show me the board and any draft replies before anything is sent, closed or changed. You are done when every item sits in one group with a next step.
Replace text in brackets with your own.
Carmine Paolino, paolino.me ·