This directory contains utility scripts for setting up and managing the gh-agentic-workflows pipeline.
Installs the required labels on a repository for the issue → PR → review → fix → merge pipeline.
The script creates or updates the following labels:
-
agent/code(green) — Triggers the drafter agent. When applied to an issue, the drafter agent reads the issue, implements the change, validates it, and opens a pull request. -
agent/fixme(red) — Applied by the review workflow when a PR needs work. The fix workflow consumes this label, reads the reviewer's feedback, and pushes a fix commit. -
agent/lgtm(green) — Applied by the review workflow when a PR is approved and ready to merge. The merge workflow automatically merges PRs with this label. -
agent/drafter-working,agent/review-working,agent/fix-working(yellow) — Indicates that the corresponding agent (drafter, review, or fix) is actively working on the issue or PR. Per-workflow labels avoid one workflow's cleanup clearing another's still-in-progress signal on the same PR. -
agent/workflow-edits-allowed(purple) — Pre-authorizes an agent run to edit protected files (workflows, README, etc.) without triggering the request_review gate. Apply this to an issue before labeling itagent/code, or to a PR before applyingagent/fixme.
The easiest way to install labels is using the included workflow. It also runs weekly on its own (the create-or-update loop is idempotent, so this just self-heals any label that gets renamed, deleted, or recolored by hand) — running it manually is only needed to create the labels immediately instead of waiting for the first scheduled run:
- Go to your repository's Actions tab
- Select the Install Labels workflow
- Click Run workflow
Alternatively, you can copy .github/workflows/install-labels.yml to your own repository and run it there. That
workflow inlines the LABELS array and install loop directly in its actions/github-script step, so it has no
dependency on this file being checked out.
If you want to integrate label installation into your own workflow, install-labels.js is a plain CommonJS module
you can require() after checking out the repo:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Install gh-agentic-workflows labels
uses: actions/github-script@v7
with:
script: |
const { installLabels } = require('./scripts/install-labels.js');
await installLabels(github, context);You can also use the GitHub CLI to create the labels directly:
gh label create "agent/code" --color 0E8A16 \
--description "Triggers the drafter agent"
gh label create "agent/fixme" --color D93F0B \
--description "Reviewer agent found issues that need fixing"
gh label create "agent/lgtm" --color 0E8A16 \
--description "Reviewer agent approved; ready to auto-merge"
gh label create "agent/drafter-working" --color FBCA04 \
--description "The drafter agent is actively working on this issue"
gh label create "agent/review-working" --color FBCA04 \
--description "The review agent is actively working on this PR"
gh label create "agent/fix-working" --color FBCA04 \
--description "The fix agent is actively working on this PR"
gh label create "agent/workflow-edits-allowed" --color 5319E7 \
--description "Pre-authorizes agent runs to edit protected files without the request_review gate"Or via gh api, e.g. to update an existing label:
gh api repos/:owner/:repo/labels/agent/code -X PATCH \
-f color="0E8A16" -f description="Triggers the drafter agent"To customize the labels (change colors, descriptions, or add new ones), edit the LABELS array in
install-labels.js and the matching copy in .github/workflows/install-labels.yml, then rerun the
installation workflow to update the labels on your repository.