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Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 10, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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المملكة العربية السعودية Open

feature request needs triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

actions/stale#1371 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
8610 الفخر بن عساكر Open

feature request needs triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

actions/stale#1370 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Closing items while paginating can skip open pull requests Open

bug

actions/stale#1360 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Ignore issues which has linked open PRs Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1333 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 10, 2026
When other issues refer to a stale issue, don't mark it as stale, especially if closed as a duplicate of to-be-stale issue Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1324 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 4, 2026
Make the output less verbose, to better scale for big repos Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/stale#1317 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Remove the stale label when a PR is closed or merged Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1303 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 14, 2025
Ability to ignore label changes as "updates" Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1301 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 29, 2025
Add ability to exclude some types of updates from calculation of last update time Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1243 · 4 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Apr 26, 2025
A way for `exempt-issue-labels` to include [unlabelled] Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

actions/stale#1236 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 10, 2025
Add option to keep posting comment on stale issue. Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1209 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 18, 2025
Bypass issue subscription preferences. Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1190 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 12, 2024
Add days-before-lock and lock-reason options to lock issues and Pull requests Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1188 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 28, 2024
Remove Stale Branches Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1174 · 6 comments · 10 reactions · Opened Aug 15, 2024
Feature request: Close draft PRs only Open

feature request

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

actions/stale#1162 · 3 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jun 13, 2024
`actions: write` is too permissive Open

bug

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

actions/stale#1159 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 30, 2024
Support markdown comments Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1149 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 28, 2024
Allow filtering of PRs by review status or other criteria Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1143 · 3 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Mar 12, 2024
[wishlist] mark previous comment(s) as outdated when removing 'stale' label Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1139 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 26, 2024
Have one workflow ignore the state saved by another Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1137 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 22, 2024
Error delete _state: [403] Resource not accessible by integration Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

actions/stale#1133 · 19 comments · Opened Feb 2, 2024
Feature request: Option to move a PR from "open" to "draft" Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1130 · 3 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Jan 26, 2024
How to run for other repos in the same organization Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/stale#1128 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 10, 2024
This action closes issues where a maintainer or contributor has not responded or otherwise acted upon the issue. Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1122 · 20 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Dec 11, 2023
Draft PR's timer should start from when it was marked as ready instead of PR creation Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1115 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 6, 2023
Add the ability to distinguish between last commit and last comment dates on a PR Open

feature request need eyes

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

actions/stale#1114 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 27, 2023
How to run only on PRs? Open

feature request

actions/stale#1112 · 9 comments · 5 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 27, 2023
standard-version is deprecated, switch to in-place replacement or release-please? Open

feature request need eyes

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

actions/stale#1105 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 30, 2023
Update default runtime to node 20 Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

actions/stale#1098 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Sep 28, 2023
[Feature Request] Do not close PRs that have auto-merge activated Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1096 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 25, 2023
reduce the number of issues this action queries Open

feature request

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 20/100

actions/stale#1085 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 30, 2023
[Feature Request] Support `remove-stale-label-after-reopen` option Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1082 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 28, 2023
[wishlist] Support for GitHub Discussions? Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1055 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 19, 2023
Add option to unassign an issue Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

actions/stale#1052 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 12, 2023
Exclude unchecked days from staleness computation Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1051 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 10, 2023
Only-label shoud act as a filter Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#1046 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 5, 2023
Restart count days-before-stale only for PR/issue author Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

actions/stale#1024 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 1, 2023
Feature request: remove stale label on closing Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

actions/stale#1021 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 24, 2023
read config from file Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

actions/stale#1003 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened May 3, 2023
Option to ignore issues/PRs with no comments Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#995 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 19, 2023
[Feature Request] Support for Discussions Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#994 · 13 comments · 15 reactions · Opened Apr 17, 2023
Do not close pinned issues Open

feature request

actions/stale#990 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 16, 2023
add seperated labels-to-remove-when-unstale for issues and PRs Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

actions/stale#971 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2023
Exempt PR's stale for only specific author names. Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#933 · 6 comments · 10 reactions · Opened Feb 7, 2023
Hide bot comment when stale label is removed Open

feature request

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

actions/stale#906 · 4 comments · 10 reactions · Opened Jan 4, 2023
Dynamic messages Open

enhancement

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

actions/stale#877 · 8 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Dec 7, 2022
how to deploy this from a PR branch Open

documentation

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

actions/stale#862 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 4, 2022
Issues should be kept active if reactions (ie upvotes) or backlinks Open

enhancement

actions/stale#861 · 5 comments · 17 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 27, 2022
Feature / Question: option to force negate `exempt-issue-labels` when having specific label (override) Open

enhancement

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

actions/stale#860 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 27, 2022
Option to ignore either PR's or Issues Open

enhancement feature request need eyes

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

actions/stale#837 · 14 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Oct 3, 2022

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