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PR's closed by bots #26305
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Hello everyone! When a PR is closed through a bot for example, it doesn’t run the workflow, any ideas on how to solve this? |
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What kind of bot are you talking about? Code running in an Actions workflow, or something else? |
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a bot that analyzes PR’s that are stale and closes  Actions · actions/staleMarks issues and pull requests that have not had recent interaction - Actions · actions/stale |
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That’s an action, which will appear as the Actions bot in the log because by default it uses the If you want to trigger workflows, you need to create a PAT, store that as a secret, and provide it to the action that closes the PRs. |
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@airtower-luna Thanks for the suggestion, I will apply it |
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it seems that creating a pat and using it didn’t work either )= |
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That’s an action, which will appear as the Actions bot in the log because by default it uses the
GITHUB_TOKENfor authorization. And any activity authorized by theGITHUB_TOKENwon’t trigger further workflows, as documented.If you want to trigger workflows, you need to create a PAT, store that as a secret, and provide it to the action that closes the PRs.