Developer Workflow Automation with GitHub Actions
summary
Shows how to build real GitHub Actions: an invite bot via Actions that adds attendees, an auto-approve + auto-merge workflow, and a Variables-and-Markdown action that edits issue comments (mad‑libs) — all implemented with octokit and the Actions Toolkit, using Ruby and TypeScript. Demonstrates cron jobs (weekly standups, image resize), CI for Node.js with actions/checkout, and the fork permission problem requiring a custom PAT secret. Several workflows run concurrently; some merges fail due to race conditions and fork token restrictions.
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