I Built an n8n Workflow That Auto-Triages Every GitHub Issue with AI

If you run a GitHub repo with more than a handful of contributors, you know the pain: issues pile up, PRs go unreviewed, and critical bugs sit next to typo fixes with no way to tell them apart. I got tired of spending 30+ minutes every morning just reading notifications, so I built DevOps Inbox Zero — an n8n workflow that does the triage for me. What It Does Every time a GitHub issue or PR is created, the workflow: Catches the event via GitHub webhook Sends it to GPT-4o-mini with a structured prompt Gets back a JSON classification : priority (critical/high/medium/low), category (bug/feature/security/docs/infra/test), suggested owner, and recommended action Routes to the right Slack channel based on priority Creates a ticket in Linear or Jira (optional) with all the context The whole thing runs in under 3 seconds per event and costs about $0.001 per classification (GPT-4o-mini is insanely cheap for this). The Architecture GitHub Event → Filter → AI Classifier → Parse → Priority Router ↓