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Solution: Automatically Comment and Label Issues

name: Misc - Auto Comment on New Issues

on:
  issues:
    types: opened
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  thanks:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      issues: write # required to create comments
    steps:
      - uses: actions/github-script@v7
        id: issue_script
        with:
          github-token: $
          script: |
            const issue_number = context.issue.number;
            console.log(`issue_number: ${issue_number}`);

            const owner = context.repo.owner;
            const repo = context.repo.repo;

            // lookup issue info
            const issue = await github.rest.issues.get({
              repo, owner, issue_number
            });
            console.log(`issue: ${issue}`);

            // create comment thanking contributor
            const comment = await github.rest.issues.createComment({
              repo, owner, issue_number,
              body: "Thanks for your contribution!"
            });
            console.log(`comment id: ${comment.data.id}`);
            console.log(comment.data);

            // auto label
            github.rest.issues.addLabels({
              repo, owner, issue_number,
              labels: ['todo-review']
            })

            // make comment id available to subsequent steps
            return comment.data.id;

      - run: echo 'comment id=$'