feat: add the work-items action - #1
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A composite GitHub action that turns issue events into orchestrator work items: an issue opened adds an item to the work items file, a closed issue removes it. The action carries its own spinloop, works the file in the caller's repo, and commits and pushes the result with the workflow's token. The label gate and template render live in a small node helper; a re-run of an event is a no-op, and a close whose item is running is refused the way work remove refuses it. Adds a copy-paste workflow to the README, an actionlint workflow, and a manual end-to-end workflow.
gh issue create does not support --json/--jq; it prints the issue's URL. Read the number off the end of it.
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A composite GitHub action that turns issue events into orchestrator work
items: an issue opened adds an item to the work items file, a closed issue
removes it. The file is the backlog the orchestrator works, so a backlog of
issues becomes the backlog it picks up, with no operator in between.
Key changes
work-items/— the composite action. It resolves its own spinloop (arelease, or a
binaryinput), applies the label gate and template renderin a small node helper, works the file via
work add/work remove, andcommits and pushes the result with the workflow's token.
work-items/README.md— a copy-paste workflow and the input reference..github/workflows/lint.yml— actionlint on push and PR, checking theworkflows and the action's inputs through the e2e reference.
.github/workflows/e2e.yml— a manual end-to-end run that builds spinloopfrom source and works a real issue through the action: add, re-add no-op,
remove, re-remove no-op, and the label gate.
A re-run of an event is a no-op. A close whose item is running is refused the
way
work removerefuses it — the action does not stop a live item on its own.Closes spinloop-ai/spinloop#223