MatteoGabriele / MatteoGabriele/agentscan-action

re: known-bots.ts (drive-by knowledge sharing)

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Description

FYI: GH API's user object has a user type that can tell you if a thing is a GH App or not — there's no need to check if the login ends in a [bot].

I discovered this when making a GH app back in the day and was also trying to make it configurable to let people exclude bot accounts: https://github.com/sanitizers/chronographer-github-app/blob/da991e08256a17ef0d013ecc6ed0908051e97c54/chronographer/event_handlers.py#L440C29-L440C29.

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Research direction

Start by reading known-bots.ts and trace where GitHub user objects are classified as bots. Compare the current login-suffix check with the GitHub API user type described in the issue and identify the existing checks that would need updating; done means bot detection no longer depends on a login ending in [bot].

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Tech stack
github, github-actions, typescript
Domain
ci-cd
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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