Create Issue Action

A simple GitHub Action that creates, updates, comments on, or closes issues using the GitHub CLI (gh).

Ideal for CI/CD workflows that need to:

• Automatically open or update tracking issues
• Comment on existing issues from automation
• Close issues after builds or deployments are complete

Features

• Create new issues with titles, bodies, templates, labels, and assignees
• Update existing issues automatically
• Add comments to existing issues
• Close issues by title and label search
• Uses gh CLI under the hood (no extra dependencies)

Inputs

Name	Description	Default	Required
token	GitHub token (or PAT) used for authentication	${{github.token}}	Yes
mode	Operation mode: create or close	create	Yes
state	Issue state filter when searching for existing issues: open, closed, or all	open	Yes
title	Title of the issue to create or update	-	Yes
labels	Comma-separated list of labels used for creation and search	-	No
assignees	Comma-separated list of users to assign the issue to	-	No
body	Optional body text for the issue	-	No
comment	Optional comment text to add to an existing issue instead of updating the issue body, or as closing comment if closing the issue	-	No
repo	Repository to operate on (owner/repo)	${{github.repository}}	Yes

Example Usage

name: Reporting on failed builds
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Build
        run: make build

  report-failure:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: build
    if: failure()
    permissions:
      contents: read
      issues: write
    steps:
      - name: Report build failure
         uses: CodeReaper/create-issue-action@v1
        with:
          title: "{{ github.workflow }} failed to build"
          labels: automation
          assignees: "@me"
          body: See [the action log](https://github.com/{{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/{{ github.run_id }}) for more details.

License

This project is released under the MIT License