Feature request: Recurring tasks in GitHub Projects

[Abhishek688Singh]

Many teams have recurring work such as weekly maintenance, dependency updates, and monthly releases.

It would be useful if GitHub Projects supported recurring tasks that are automatically recreated on a schedule instead of relying on external automation.

Is this something the GitHub team has considered?

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[abhitics]

I think this would be a valuable feature, especially for teams that manage ongoing operational work.

Many projects include recurring tasks such as weekly dependency updates, sprint planning, monthly security reviews, release preparation, or routine maintenance. Today, these are often recreated manually or generated through external automation using GitHub Actions or third-party tools.

Native recurring tasks could simplify this workflow by allowing users to:

Create daily, weekly, monthly, or custom recurring schedules.
Automatically generate a new task while preserving the history of previous occurrences.
Set due dates relative to the recurrence (for example, "every Monday" or "the first business day of each month").
Assign default owners, labels, milestones, or project fields.
Pause or skip individual occurrences without deleting the recurrence.

Keeping this functionality within GitHub Projects would reduce the need for external automation and make project management more streamlined, particularly for small teams and open-source maintainers.

Until a feature like this exists, GitHub Actions and the GitHub API can be used to create recurring issues or project items, but having built-in support would provide a much smoother experience. I think this would be a worthwhile enhancement.