How the routine works
The GitHub issue triage template runs each weekday morning. It reads issues opened or updated since the last run, identifies duplicates with links to the original, proposes a label and priority with a one-line justification, and drafts a first response for reports that are missing reproduction steps. In propose-only mode the result is a digest a maintainer applies in a few minutes; with the labeling and commenting tools explicitly approved, the routine applies its own proposals and the digest becomes a record.
The companion stale pull request review runs weekly, catching the other half of tracker rot: finished work dying in review. It names what each quiet pull request is waiting on and who owns the block.
Setting it up
Connect GitHub, choose the template, and run it once against a busy week of issues. If your team uses Linear for planning, connect it over MCP and the routine can propose tracker updates through whatever tools you approve. Prove the run, then set the schedule to weekday mornings in your timezone. Both templates live on the engineering category page.