close-old-issues.yaml

name: Close Inactive Issues

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * *'  # Run daily
  workflow_dispatch:  # This line enables manual triggering

jobs:
  close-issues:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      issues: write  # Ensure necessary permissions for issues
      pull-requests: none
      contents: none
    steps:
    - name: Close inactive issues
      uses: actions/stale@v9.0.0
      with:
        # A list of labels to reference when looking through issues,
        # and only when one (or even more) of these labels are found..
        # then skip this issue, and never try to stale and/or close it.
        exempt-issue-labels: "Keep Issue Open"
        # Split it into two months, after one month the issue will be marked as stale,
        # after another month have pasted without any update.. the issue will then be closed.
        days-before-issue-stale: 31
        days-before-issue-close: 31
        # NEVER mark PRs as Stale or Close + this workflow should never have write permissions on PRs, EVER!
        days-before-pr-stale: -1
        days-before-pr-close: -1
        # Sends a message for both the Stale and Close events of an issue.
        stale-issue-message: "This issue was marked as stale because it has been inactive for 31 days"
        close-issue-message: "This issue was closed because it has been inactive for 31 days since it was marked as stale"
        # Increase this value if the project receives a lot of
        # PRs (yes.. apparently they're processed no matter what) & Issues.
        # Default value for it (according to the docs) is 30
        operations-per-run: 30
        # Make this field equal true if you want to test your configuration if it works correctly or not
        debug-only: false
        repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}