fix: Increase stale workflow operations limit to clear backlog#17719
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operations-per-run of 100 is too low for a repo with 400+ open items. The action exhausts its budget marking PRs stale before it can close previously-staled ones. 500 provides enough headroom while leaving API capacity for other scheduled workflows.
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rahulchhabria
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May 11, 2026
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Summary
operations-per-runfrom 100 to 500Problem
The stale PR workflow was running successfully but not closing PRs because it was hitting the operations limit before it could process the full backlog. With 400+ open issues/PRs, 100 operations per run only allows marking ~30-40 PRs as stale, leaving no capacity to close the ones already marked stale from 7+ days ago.
Solution
Increase to 500 operations, which provides enough headroom to:
lock.ymlruns at 3:13 AM)Once the backlog clears, daily processing load will drop significantly.