GitHub
github.comGitHub is the world’s leading platform for hosting code and collaborating on software development. Teams use repositories, pull requests, issues, and automated workflows to plan, review, and ship changes—backed by rich event signals like reviews, mentions, commits, and releases. With strong ecosystem support and granular permissions, GitHub enables organizations to manage development activity in a transparent, auditable way.
Connecting GitHub enables BOBs to actively run development operations instead of waiting for manual follow-up. BOBs can listen for high-signal events—new issues, review requests, mentions, PR updates, commits, and CI workflow outcomes—and decide the next best action across your connected tools (e.g., ticketing, documentation, release tracking). When something needs doing, BOBs can open issues, create branches, dispatch workflows, update project items, and post targeted comments that keep stakeholders aligned.
For engineering teams, this unlocks use cases like “triage and route” for incoming work, “assist review” (generate comments or update PRs based on feedback), “release readiness” (track milestones and project item status), and “self-healing CI” behaviors (detect failed workflow runs and trigger follow-up workflows). BOBs can also keep repositories organized by starring relevant repos, syncing forks, and maintaining gists when you need lightweight shared artifacts.
What can BOBs do with GitHub?
Perform actions
- Create Branch
- Create Gist
- Create Issue
- Create Issue Comment
- Create or Update File Contents
- Create Pull Request
- Create Repository
- Create Workflow Dispatch
- Disable Workflow
- Enable Workflow
- Get Commit
- Get Current User
- Get Issue
- Get Issue Assignees
- Get Repository Content
- Get Repository Info
- Get Reviewers
- Get Workflow Run
- List Branches
- List Commits
- List Gist Id Options
- List Gists for a User
- List Organization Options
- List Organization Repositories
- List Organizations
- List Releases
- List Repositories
- List Team Id Options
- List Workflow Runs
- Search Issues and Pull Requests
- Star Repo
- Sync Fork Branch with Upstream
- Update Gist
- Update Issue
- Update Project (V2) Item Status
- Update Pull Request
Listen to real-time events
- New Branch Created
- New Card in Column (Classic Projects)
- New Collaborator
- New Commit
- New Commit Comment
- New Discussion
- New Fork
- New Gist
- New Issue Comment
- New Label
- New Mention
- New Notification
- New Organization
- New or Updated Issue
- New or Updated Milestone
- New or Updated Pull Request
- New release
- New Repository
- New Review Request
- New Security Alert
- New Star By User
- New Stars
- New Team
- New Webhook Event (Instant)
- New Workflow Job Completed (Instant)
- New Workflow Run Completed (Instant)
- Project Item Status Changed