GitHub Action that improves GitHub issues using OpenAI GPT. (GitHub + DEV 2023 Hackathon)

GitHUb: https://github.com/MaurerKrisztian/issue-improver-action

issue-improver-action

Maurer Krisztian

GitHub Action that automates issue improvement using OpenAI.

Inputs:

Input	Required	Default	Info
openai-key	Yes	N/A	OpenAI API key
config-file	No	issue-improver-config.json	Configuration file
add-related-issues-section	No	false	Create a related issues section.
add-summary-section	No	false	Create a summary section.
add-comment-summary-section	No	false	Create comment summary
add-custom-section	No	N/A	custom section title/id comma separated string. ”*” means include all.
add-label-section	No	false	Create label suggesion
model	No	‘text-davinci-003’	OpenAI model
max-tokens	No	150	OpenAI max_tokens (response length)
debug-mode	No	false	Enable debug mode: Don’t create comment

How does It work?

This action can be triggered to gather the relevant issue data, make usefully comments with GPT model.

One of the main building blocs is the “sections” every section has at lease a title and prompt parameter, you can specify which section do you need at the action workflow yml. When the action runs, resolves all selected sections prompts with Openapi GPT model. The prompts has default values (see: src/config/default-config.ts) but you can fully customize all of them and create custom sections. The resulting responses will then be added as a comment to the issue.

Try it out here: Demo repository

Built in sections:

Find related issues among open issues.

I have noticed that many open-source projects have few maintainers and a lot of issues. Some issues are duplicates, while others are related to each other. These details are useful to the maintainer. With the assistance of AI, this action will create a “related issues” section in the comment.

label-section

Find relevant labels for the issue.

The action will get all the labels and descriptions and issue data, based on that create a label suggession.

summary-section

Summarize the issue text.

custom-section

add custom sections to the sections.custom array within the configuration file.

comment-summary-section

Summarize all comment at the current issue, make progress report etc.

Occasionally, certain GitHub issues can be overwhelming with an abundance of comments, making it difficult to comprehend the situation. To address this, I have developed a comment summary feature.

debug mode

If you turn on debug mode, it will do the following: resolve prompts, give you more detailed logs of what’s happening, and not create comment.. To enable this, set the debug-mode input to true.

If you want to test an action without making changes to any issues, it’s useful to turn on debug mode. This will allow you to view the logs and see what comment would be created if debug mode was turned off. Once you’re satisfied with the results, you can turn off debug mode.

Action example:

This action will trigger when new issue is opened, and creates a comment including: related-issues-section, summary-section, label-section, custom-section

name: Improve issues

on:
  issues:
    types: [opened]

jobs:
  gpt-comment:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Create useful comment with AI
        uses: MaurerKrisztian/issue-improver-action@latest
        with:
          openai-key: ${{ secrets.GPT_KEY }}
          max-tokens: 400
          add-related-issues-section: true
          add-summary-section: true
          add-label-section: true
          add-custom-section: "my_custom_section1,my_custom_section2"

Comment Summary

The YAML code below demonstrates how to activate comment summary, progress report, using the “!summarize” command.

on:
  issue_comment:

jobs:
  comment-summary:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Comment summary
        uses: MaurerKrisztian/issue-improver-action@latest
        if: contains(github.event.comment.body, '!summarize')
        with:
          openai-key: ${{ secrets.GPT_KEY }}
          max-tokens: 400
          add-comment-summary-section: true

Custom section:

All section prompts is fully customisable. To create custom sections / prompts, simply create a JSON file (location is the config-file input) and modify the prompts and section titles as desired. This will owerwite the default config (see: src/config/default-config.ts).

Additionally, you can add new custom sections to the sections.custom array within the configuration file.

Example config:

{
  "sections": {
    "custom": [
      {
        "title": "Joke",
        "prompt": "make a joke about this: {{issueTitle}}"
      },
      {
        "title": "Poem",
        "prompt": "Write a short poem about this: {{issueTitle}}"
      }
    ],
    "relatedIssues": {
      "title": "Related Issues",
      "prompt": "From the list of open issues: {{openIssues}}, identify the most relevant ones related to '{{issueTitle}}' and provide a brief description of their similarities. Just the very simmilar related issues to '{{issueTitle}}' shoud be included in the answer, if none is very similar, andwer with 'none',"
    },
    "summary": {
      "title": "Summary",
      "prompt": "Provide a concise summary of the main points and objectives presented in the issue '{{issueTitle}}' and its content: {{issueBody}}."
    },
    "commentSummary": {
      "title": "Comment summary",
      "prompt": "Review the comments in {{issueComments}} for the issue '{{issueTitle}}' and its content: {{issueBody}}. Extract the key takeaways, notable updates, and any consensus reached, and provide a concise summary of the discussion."
    },
    "labelSuggestion": {
      "title": "Label Suggestion",
      "prompt": "Analyze the issue '{{issueTitle}}' and its content: {{issueBody}}, and suggest appropriate labels from the available labels {{allLabels}} that accurately represent the topic, scope, and complexity of the issue. The response shoud only include a label and why its suitable."
    }
  }
}

Available placeholders:

Name	Description
`{{issueTitle}}`	The issue title
`{{issueBody}}`	The issue body
`{{issueComments}}`	All issue comment
`{{issueAuthor}}`	Issue creator
`{{allLabels}}`	All available labels in the repository
`{{openIssues}}`	All open issues in the repository

If you need a different placeholder, open an issue.

Demo:

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