pr-automation-detected

Included in configs: ✅ recommended, 🔒 strict

Pull requests labeled as automated (e.g. automation-signal) or AI-generated (e.g. ai slop) indicate contributions that were not meaningfully authored by a human. These contributions are often low-quality, miss project context, and create unnecessary review burden for maintainers.

When a matching label is detected on an open PR, OctoGuide will post a comment explaining the closure and then close the pull request.

Matched Labels

At this time, the following label names are matched case-insensitively:

automation-signal or automation signal
ai-slop or ai slop

Running on Labels

Adding a label to a pull request fires the labeled event. OctoGuide’s default workflow doesn’t run on labeled, so this rule only checks pull requests when they’re opened or edited. To check pull requests as soon as a matching label is added, add labeled to the workflow’s pull_request_target types:

on:
  pull_request_target:
    types: [edited, labeled, opened]

Default Options

This rule declares its own default options. They take precedence over the top-level include-ais, include-associations, and include-bots inputs:

include-ais: true
include-bots: true

Those defaults are equivalent to the following rule options. Changing a value runs the rule with yours instead:

jobs:
  octoguide:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: OctoGuide/bot@0.33.1
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          rules: |
            {
              "pr-automation-detected": {
                "include-ais": true,
                "include-bots": true
              }
            }

Example

github-actions

👋 Hi @YourUsername, thanks for the issue! A scan flagged a concern with it. Could you please take a look?

[ pr-automation-detected ]

This pull request has been labeled as automated or AI-generated and will be closed. These types of automated contributions often lack the understanding and context that maintainers need to review and maintain code.

Please review the repository’s contributing guidelines before submitting.

🗺️ This message was posted automatically by OctoGuide: a bot for GitHub repository best practices.

How to Enable

Each snippet in this section shows changes to the full .github/workflows/octoguide.yml workflow from Get Started.

This rule is enabled by default as part of the recommended config.

To use this rule on its own, enable it in rules with the none config:

jobs:
  octoguide:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: OctoGuide/bot@0.33.1
        with:
          config: none
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          rules: |
            {
              "pr-automation-detected": true
            }