I Get 215 GitHub Notifications a Day, So I Built a Bot to Triage Them

When your open source project gets popular, the real work starts. I counted everything that happened in my repositories in the last 30 days, leaving out what I did myself: 42 new issues and pull requests a day from people. Spotifast and ZapFast, both two months old, brought in about 430 each. RubyLLM brought in about 270. 49 comments and review comments a day from people. About 125 comments a day from review bots. CodeRabbit alone left 2,669 review comments, and Copilot another 974. That’s about 215 notifications a day, every day, on top of building the things people are filing issues about. Each one is an email, a badge on the bell, a push on my phone. I can’t read all of them, and the important ones get buried under the rest: a pull request waiting for my sign-off ends up under fifty comments about a bug that was fixed last week. So I built Copilot Triage. It reads every issue, discussion, and pull request, answers the reporter when it has something useful to say, and puts…