OpenFn/lightning

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Lightning ⚡️ is latest version of the OpenFn platform, a DPG and DPI building block that governments use to manage complex service/workflow automation and data integration projects.

Stars: 296
Forks: 86
Open beginner issues: 7
Indexed issues: 636
Avg merge: 1d 13h
Merged PRs (30d): 50

Dominant language: Elixir
License: LGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue help wanted

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632 open issues indexed

Workflow Editor crashes when manual editing is happening while AI edit is in progress Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

OpenFn/lightning#5195 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Global assistant: Make the conversation panel adjustable Open

AI

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

OpenFn/lightning#5186 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
The workflows list still calls the lifecycle 'Enabled' Open

phase:2-later Sandboxes DevX

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

OpenFn/lightning#5176 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
No way to put back an earlier save point in a draft Open

phase:2-later Sandboxes DevX

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

OpenFn/lightning#5175 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
How the history page and the editor meet Open

phase:2-later Sandboxes DevX

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenFn/lightning#5174 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Retrying a run runs the latest version, not the one that ran Open

phase:2-later Sandboxes DevX

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

OpenFn/lightning#5173 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
A CLI deploy changes a live workflow and records no version Open

phase:2-later Sandboxes DevX

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

OpenFn/lightning#5172 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Record why a version was published Open

phase:2-later Sandboxes DevX

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

OpenFn/lightning#5171 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Show what changed between two versions Open

phase:2-later Sandboxes DevX

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

OpenFn/lightning#5170 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Demo credentials are created with no body, so demo runs fail before the job starts Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

OpenFn/lightning#5164 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
The assistant's apply decides trigger enablement, and reads a missing key as on Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

OpenFn/lightning#5163 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
AI assistant: absorb a long paste instead of refusing it Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

OpenFn/lightning#5138 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Curated test inputs per workflow Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

OpenFn/lightning#5132 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Global assistant: restore the workflow to any point a conversation reached Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenFn/lightning#5120 · Opened Sep 5, 2026
Remove support for worker 1.x Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenFn/lightning#5103 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
History Exports Silently Failing Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

OpenFn/lightning#5094 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Keychain credentials do not resolve on projects with zero-persistence enabled Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

OpenFn/lightning#5091 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Audit trail not updated when I/O retention policy changes Open

bug security

OpenFn/lightning#5090 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Email not sent when I/O data retention policy changes Open

bug security

OpenFn/lightning#5088 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Stop diary-style Claude comments in code Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenFn/lightning#5086 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
AI assistant: Streaming is artificially delayed Open

AI

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

OpenFn/lightning#5085 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Delete the unreachable branch that prefers Apollo's error text over ours Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

OpenFn/lightning#5083 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Tests asserting on logs fail intermittently with an empty capture Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

OpenFn/lightning#5082 · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Chat messages written in the same second can render in either order Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

OpenFn/lightning#5081 · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Drop our copy of Tesla's Finch adapter now that upstream carries the fix Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

OpenFn/lightning#5080 · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Metadata breaks while an adaptor is installing, and when its version isn't a real one Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

OpenFn/lightning#5059 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Deleting a sandbox from Settings destroys it immediately, though the dialog promises 7 days Open

bug regression sandboxes and sync

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

OpenFn/lightning#5058 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Keychain credential path matches the raw webhook payload, not the input shown in the inspector Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

OpenFn/lightning#5051 · Opened Aug 6, 2026
One way to close the run viewer Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

OpenFn/lightning#5045 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Sunset Non Global AI Assistant Open

AI

OpenFn/lightning#5042 · 2 assignees · Opened Aug 4, 2026
AI assistant: let the server gather the context instead of the browser Open

AI

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenFn/lightning#5039 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Model "a workflow is being created" once, not four times Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

OpenFn/lightning#5031 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
Template browser wipes your search when the channel arrives Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 84/100

OpenFn/lightning#5030 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
`useWorkflowActions` shouldn't require a `LiveViewActionsProvider` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

OpenFn/lightning#5029 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
Derive `workflow_kind` instead of caching it on the socket Open

refactor tech-debt

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

OpenFn/lightning#5028 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
Supporting adaptors with multiple configuration schemas Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

OpenFn/lightning#5025 · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Build from scratch: open the trigger picker so the user is guided into the workflow Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

OpenFn/lightning#5024 · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Creating from pasted YAML within 300ms of an edit saves the previous version Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

OpenFn/lightning#5023 · Opened Jul 27, 2026
OAuth "Token is invalid or revoked" errors lack identifying context in Sentry Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

OpenFn/lightning#5016 · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Upgrade phoenix liveview to 1.1 Open

OpenFn/lightning#5012 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 24, 2026
AI Assistants: Tell Apollo about "viewer" permissions Open

bug

OpenFn/lightning#5011 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'localeCompare') Open

bug

OpenFn/lightning#5010 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Sandbox collaborators who aren't on the parent project can't see the sandbox in the main projects menu Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

OpenFn/lightning#5007 · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Build end-to-end authorisation coverage rail Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

OpenFn/lightning#5004 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Canvas gives no illustrative feedback/loading state while AI workflow generation is running Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

OpenFn/lightning#5002 · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Sync test suite Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

OpenFn/lightning#5000 · Opened Jul 20, 2026
Sandbox merge tests? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

OpenFn/lightning#4999 · Opened Jul 20, 2026
Suite of lightning-worker tests Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenFn/lightning#4998 · Opened Jul 20, 2026
Version algorithm tests Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenFn/lightning#4997 · Opened Jul 20, 2026
Extract a shared display-name helper for users Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

OpenFn/lightning#4988 · Opened Jul 19, 2026

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