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Lets contributors claim an issue themselves instead of waiting for a maintainer to assign it. Assigning an issue needs triage access, which outside and fork-based contributors don't have, so today a claim is only a comment until someone assigns it by hand.

Adds .github/workflows/assign.yaml, ported from NVIDIA/nodewright:

  • /assign assigns the commenter, only if the issue has no assignee. Free text after the command on the same line (/assign I'll take this) is still a claim by the commenter.
  • /assign @user assigns the named user, only if the issue has no assignee. It must be alone on the first line; a mention mixed with other text, or several mentions, is refused with a reply saying why.
  • /unassign removes the commenter, only if they are assigned; nobody can release someone else's claim.
  • Only the first line is read as the command, so cc @maintainer on a later line never changes who is assigned. The command is matched case-insensitively and must be the first word, so /assign-foo does not match.
  • One owner at a time. Refused commands get an explanatory reply, including when GitHub silently drops a user who can't be assigned.
  • Issues only, not pull requests.

Security: triggers on issue_comment (always the base repository's context), never checks out code, contents: read at the top level and issues: write only on the job, actions/github-script pinned by SHA. It runs on a GitHub-hosted ubuntu-latest runner (as scorecard.yaml does), since any GitHub user can trigger it by commenting, and only in the upstream repository. Assignees are read fresh from the API, and commands are serialized per issue through a job-level concurrency group, so ordinary comments never queue.

Two fixes over the nodewright original, both of which nodewright later adopted upstream:

  • The concurrency group uses queue: max. With the default single pending slot, a newer run cancels a pending one and the command is lost.
  • Usernames are compared case-insensitively, so /assign @Octocat isn't reported as a failure when GitHub returns octocat.

The work-in-progress claim limit nodewright added later (NVIDIA/nodewright#877) is intentionally left out; it is a policy choice for maintainers.

Note: actionlint (v1.7.12) doesn't recognize concurrency.queue yet and reports it as an unknown key; the key is documented in GitHub's workflow syntax reference. The companion PR #601 adds an actionlint ignore for it.

CONTRIBUTING.md now documents /assign and /unassign where it describes claiming an issue.

Closes #598

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  • I am familiar with the Contributing Guidelines.
  • New or existing tests cover these changes.
  • The documentation is up to date with these changes.
  • All commits are signed off per DCO (git commit -s).

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  • New Features
    • Comment /assign on an issue to claim it, or include one valid @username to request assignment to that person. Assignment is declined if the issue already has an assignee or another user is assigned before the request is applied.
    • Comment /unassign to remove your own assignment. Replies clarify invalid requests, missing assignments, or when GitHub does not make the requested assignment.
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    • Updated contribution guidance with instructions for claiming and releasing issues.

Adds a GitHub Actions workflow that processes /assign and /unassign issue comments, updates issue assignees, and reports command outcomes. Updates contributor instructions to document both commands.

Changes: Issue assignment commands

Layer / File(s) Summary
Workflow trigger and execution scope
.github/workflows/assign.yaml, CONTRIBUTING.md
Runs for matching issue comments in the upstream repository, excludes pull requests, and serializes runs per issue. Contributor instructions document /assign and /unassign.
Command parsing and assignment rules
.github/workflows/assign.yaml
Parses command tokens and arguments, reads current assignees, removes the commenter’s assignment when requested, and refuses assignment when the issue already has an assignee.
Assignment results and concurrent updates
.github/workflows/assign.yaml
Requests assignment and checks the response. Reports when GitHub does not assign the target. If another user is assigned concurrently, reports the conflict and leaves all assignments unchanged.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant IssueComment as Issue commenter
  participant AssignWorkflow as assign.yaml
  participant GitHubIssuesAPI as GitHub Issues API
  IssueComment->>AssignWorkflow: Submit /assign or /unassign comment
  AssignWorkflow->>GitHubIssuesAPI: Fetch current assignees
  GitHubIssuesAPI-->>AssignWorkflow: Return assignee list
  AssignWorkflow->>GitHubIssuesAPI: Remove or request assignment
  GitHubIssuesAPI-->>AssignWorkflow: Return updated assignees
  AssignWorkflow->>GitHubIssuesAPI: Post a response when required
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A contributor who writes /unassign @someone can accidentally release their own claim. Reject the named form before merging, or accept this bounded risk.

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Linked Issues check Warning Issue #598 requires the workflow to run on the repository's existing self-hosted runners. The Proposed Solution states: "It runs on the repository's existing self-hosted runners." The reviewed head `.… Change runs-on in the assign job of .github/workflows/assign.yaml from ubuntu-latest to the self-hosted runner label that the repository's existing workflows use, as #598 requires. If maintainers decide that GitHub-hosted runners ar…
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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: enabling contributors to self-assign issues with /assign.
Description check Passed The description directly explains the workflow, command behavior, security controls, documentation update, and known runner deviation.
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes are limited to .github/workflows/assign.yaml and the CONTRIBUTING.md sentence that documents /assign and /unassign. Each part of the workflow maps to #598: command parsing, assignee …
Docstring Coverage Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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The changes are limited to .github/workflows/assign.yaml and the CONTRIBUTING.md sentence that documents /assign and /unassign. Each part of the workflow maps to #598: command parsing, assignee checks, refusal and conflict replies, concurrency, permissions, and the SHA-pinned action. The workflow does not auto-assign pull request authors, which #598 excludes. The queue: max setting and the case-insensitive login comparison serve the #598 requirements for serialized runs and reliable one-owner behavior. The workflow adds no unrelated product behavior. The diff for the incremental changes could not be read, so this verdict relies on the head file content and the supplied summary.

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Issue #598 requires the workflow to run on the repository's existing self-hosted runners. The Proposed Solution states: "It runs on the repository's existing self-hosted runners." The reviewed head .github/workflows/assign.yaml sets runs-on: ubuntu-latest on job assign. The PR description states this change on purpose and gives a reason (any GitHub user can trigger the workflow by commenting). That reason does not meet the #598 requirement. The other #598 coding requirements are present in the file: /assign and /unassign handling, the first-line and first-token command match, issue-only gating, one owner at a time, explanatory replies for refused commands and for silently dropped assignees, fresh assignee reads through issues.get, per-issue concurrency with queue: max, issue_comment trigger, no checkout, top-level contents: read, job-level issues: write, SHA-pinned actions/github-script, and the CONTRIBUTING.md update. The raw summary also reports CONTRIBUTING.md changes. The whole-PR diff could not be read (diff metadata unavailable). I verified the runs-on value from the head file content directly, so the finding does not depend on the incremental diff. No automated tests exist for the workflow, but #598 does not require tests.

Resolution

Change runs-on in the assign job of .github/workflows/assign.yaml from ubuntu-latest to the self-hosted runner label that the repository's existing workflows use, as #598 requires. If maintainers decide that GitHub-hosted runners are acceptable, they must first revise the #598 requirement. Then this assessment can be re-run.

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Adds an issue-only workflow for /assign and /unassign, and documents both commands in CONTRIBUTING.md.

  • Issue comments can claim an unassigned issue for a contributor.
  • Issue assignees can release their own claim with /unassign.

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flowchart TD
  A[Issue comment] --> B{Assignment command?}
  B -->|No| C[Skip]
  B -->|Yes| D[Read current assignees]
  D --> E{Command}
  E -->|/unassign| F[Remove commenter only if assigned]
  E -->|/assign| G{Issue unassigned?}
  G -->|No| H[Explain refusal]
  G -->|Yes| I[Choose one target and assign]
  I --> J[Check result and report any conflict]
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## Description

Finishes hardening the GitHub Actions workflows. Closes #592.

- Pin every remaining tag-referenced action to the commit SHA of the
release it resolved to, with a `# vX.Y.Z` comment: `actions/checkout`
v7.0.1, `actions/setup-go` v7.0.0, `golangci/golangci-lint-action`
v9.3.0, `codecov/codecov-action` v7.1.1, `azure/setup-helm` v5.0.1,
`peaceiris/actions-gh-pages` v4.1.0 (go.yml, chart-test, k8s-test,
slinky-test, helm-release). Each SHA was verified against the tag ref,
with annotated tags dereferenced, and each floating major tag resolved
to the same commit as its latest release.
- Correct the checkout pin comment in `release.yml` and `docker.yml`:
`3d3c42e5…` is v7.0.1, not v5.0.1.
- Every `actions/setup-go` step reads `go-version-file: go.mod`. The
`Dockerfile` still pins its own `golang` builder image (bumped by
Dependabot's docker ecosystem); `DEVELOPMENT.md` now says it must move
with `go.mod`.
- New `workflow-lint.yaml` on `ubuntu-latest`:
- Runs on pushes to `main` and `pull-request/<n>` that touch
`.github/**`, weekly (Mondays 07:30 UTC, clear of Scorecard), and on
`workflow_dispatch`, so zizmor's online audits catch new advisories
against pinned actions.
- **actionlint 1.7.12** is blocking. `.github/actionlint.yaml` declares
the self-hosted runner labels used by the other workflows and ignores
`unexpected key "queue" for "concurrency"`: `concurrency.queue` is
documented in GitHub's workflow syntax but actionlint does not know it
yet (needed by the companion `assign.yaml` PR, #603). Drop the ignore
once actionlint supports it. The shellcheck and pyflakes integrations
are off in CI for deterministic results; `DEVELOPMENT.md` gives the
matching local command.
- **zizmor 1.31.1** uploads SARIF to code scanning (category `zizmor`),
like `scorecard.yaml`, and is non-blocking for now; the accepted
findings are listed in the workflow header and below.
- Both tools are release binaries pinned by version and archive SHA-256,
verified in the workflow. They are bumped by hand; automated tracking is
proposed in #591.
- Findings fixed without behavior change:
- Template injection in the Helm index steps of `helm-release.yaml` and
`release.yml`: `github.repository_owner` and
`github.event.repository.name` now come in through `env:`.
- `fern-docs-preview-comment.yml` uses `$GITHUB_REPOSITORY` instead of
expanding `github.repository` in the script.
  - `k8s-test.yaml` passes the KWOK model path through `env:`.
- Cache poisoning in `publish-fern-docs.yml`: `package-manager-cache:
false` on setup-node. There is no package.json, so caching was never
active.
- Shellcheck SC2046: quoted the `fern-api@$(...)` argument in the three
Fern workflows.
- zizmor findings accepted for now (follow-up needed before zizmor can
block):
  - `dependabot-cooldown` x3 (`dependabot.yml`)
- `adhoc-packages` x3 (`npm install -g fern-api` in the Fern workflows)
- `dangerous-triggers` (`workflow_run` in
`fern-docs-preview-comment.yml`, part of the two-workflow preview
design)
- `superfluous-actions` (`softprops/action-gh-release` in `release.yml`)
- Refresh the CI Parity section of `DEVELOPMENT.md` to describe the
workflows that exist today, and mention workflow lint in the
`CONTRIBUTING.md` "What's checked" list.
- Not included: moving govulncheck and go-licenses to `go.mod` `tool`
directives (from #592) was intentionally left out; their version
tracking is covered by #591.

No change to what any existing job builds, tests, or publishes; the env
refactors expand to the same strings as before. Validated locally:
actionlint passes on all workflows (also with shellcheck enabled),
zizmor reports only the accepted findings above, and `grep -rE 'uses: [^
]+@' .github | grep -vE '@[0-9a-f]{40}'` returns nothing.

## Checklist
- [x] I am familiar with the [Contributing
Guidelines](./CONTRIBUTING.md).
- [ ] New or existing tests cover these changes.
- [x] The documentation is up to date with these changes.
- [x] All commits are signed off per DCO (`git commit -s`).
CONTRIBUTING.md asks contributors to claim an issue before starting
work, but assigning one needs triage access, so a claim stays a plain
comment until a maintainer assigns it by hand.

Add a workflow, ported from NVIDIA/nodewright, that handles /assign,
/assign @user and /unassign comments on issues. It keeps a single owner
per issue, reads only the first line of the comment as the command,
reads assignees fresh from the API, serializes commands per issue, and
replies when a command is refused or GitHub silently drops a
non-assignable user. It triggers on issue_comment, runs on a
GitHub-hosted runner in the upstream repository only, never checks out
code, and holds only issues: write on the job.

Two fixes over the original port: the per-issue concurrency group sits
on the job with queue: max, so a later comment no longer cancels a
pending command; and the non-assignable check compares logins
case-insensitively, so /assign @octocat is not reported as a failure.
Both match what nodewright later adopted upstream. The port
intentionally omits the work-in-progress claim limit nodewright added
in #877; that is a policy choice for maintainers.

Document the commands in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Closes dsx-ai-factory#598

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
…nment

The per-issue concurrency group serializes /assign commands, but not
assignments made in the UI or by other tools. If someone was assigned
between the workflow's fresh read of the issue and its addAssignees
call, addAssignees kept that assignee and added the target as well,
because the API adds without replacing. The issue then had two owners
and the workflow reported success.

After addAssignees, compare the returned assignees (case-insensitively)
against the target. When anyone else is now assigned, remove only the
user this run added, leave the other assignment untouched, and reply
that the issue was assigned while the command ran so /assign was not
applied. A target missing from the response is still reported as not
assignable.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
…yone

The addAssignees response cannot say who added each assignee, so a
maintainer may have assigned the same user this command targeted. Backing
out the target could undo the maintainer's choice. Leave every assignee in
place, warn, and reply asking a maintainer to decide who keeps the issue.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
/unassign only ever releases the commenter's own claim, but
"/unassign @Someone" reads as naming someone else and silently released
the commenter instead. Refuse a mention and reply that /unassign takes no
user.

Signed-off-by: Brian Lockwood <lockwobr@gmail.com>
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