ci(auto-assign-author): skip bot/agent PR authors#5533
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addAssignees fails for agent/bot authors (e.g. Copilot coding-agent PRs) with 'Assigning agents is not supported with GitHub App installation tokens' because the workflow uses GITHUB_TOKEN. The workflow only needs to assign human authors, so guard on user.type != 'Bot'; also make the step continue-on-error so this cosmetic assignment can never fail CI. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
auto-assign-author.ymlfails on PRs opened by an agent/bot (e.g. Copilot coding-agent PRs) with:addAssigneescan't assign an agent usingGITHUB_TOKEN(a GitHub App installation token).Fix
The workflow only needs to assign human authors (board/report visibility), so:
github.event.pull_request.user.type != 'Bot'→ skip bot/agent authors entirelycontinue-on-error: trueon the step so this cosmetic assignment can never fail CI againNo PAT/secret needed.