Fix copilot bot assignment in create-issue to use GitHub API#2456
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Fix copilot bot assignment in create-issue to use GitHub API#2456
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[WIP] Review handling of copilot in create_issue function
Fix copilot bot assignment in create-issue to use GitHub API
Oct 25, 2025
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Copilot is a bot and requires GitHub API calls for issue assignment. The previous implementation used
gh issue edit --add-assignee @copilotwhich doesn't work for bots.Changes
pkg/workflow/create_issue.go: UpdatedbuildCreateOutputIssueJobto detect copilot assignees and usegh api --method POST /repos/.../issues/$ISSUE_NUMBER/assigneeswithcopilot[bot]instead of the gh CLI commandPattern
Now matches the PR reviewer implementation where copilot is handled via GitHub API:
Generates:
gh api POST /repos/.../issues/$ISSUE_NUMBER/assignees -f 'assignees[]=copilot[bot]'for copilotactions/github-scriptfor regular usersBoth use the same token precedence:
GH_AW_COPILOT_TOKEN || GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKENOriginal prompt
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