🤖 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

⚡ Workflow Triggers

• New GitHub issues containing "assign me"
• New comments with "assign me" on existing issues
• Automatic label management
• Conflict resolution responses

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Transform your GitHub workflow - Perfect for growing open source projects and development teams!