Mention in Issue¶

AI assistant for issues — answer questions, debug, and create PRs on demand.

How it works¶

Activated by a comment on an issue (the example trigger uses /ai, but the prefix is configurable). Reads the issue context and codebase, then answers questions, debugs problems, suggests solutions, or opens a PR with a proposed fix.

Quick Install¶

mkdir -p .github/workflows && curl -sL \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic/ai-github-actions/v0/gh-agent-workflows/mention-in-issue/example.yml \
  -o .github/workflows/mention-in-issue.yml

Trigger¶

Event	Types	Condition
`issue_comment`	`created`	Comment on an issue (not a PR); the example trigger filters on `/ai` prefix

Inputs¶

Input	Description	Required	Default
`additional-instructions`	Repo-specific instructions appended to the agent prompt	No	`""`
`setup-commands`	Shell commands run before the agent starts	No	`""`
`allowed-bot-users`	Allowlisted bot actor usernames (comma-separated)	No	`github-actions[bot]`

Safe Outputs¶

add-comment — reply to the issue
create-pull-request — open a PR with code changes
create-issue — file a new issue

Example Workflow¶

name: Mention in Issue
on:
  issue_comment:
    types: [created]

permissions:
  actions: read
  contents: write
  discussions: write
  issues: write
  pull-requests: write

jobs:
  run:
    if: >-
      github.event.issue.pull_request == null &&
      startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/ai')
    uses: elastic/ai-github-actions/.github/workflows/gh-aw-mention-in-issue.lock.yml@v0
    secrets:
      COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN }}