Let Dependabot Merge Its Own PRs

Dependabot opens PRs automatically. That part most people have set up. But then those PRs just sit there until you get around to reviewing and merging them. I had 6 open across one of my repos recently. None of them were risky. I just didn't feel like giving a review and approving, then merging. If your CI passes and the update is a patch or minor version bump, there's not much to review. You're going to merge it. So why not let it happen automatically? I've added this to two repos now and it's one of those small things that quietly removes friction from your day. First, enable auto-merge on your repo Before the workflow can do anything, you need to allow auto-merge in your repository settings. Go to e.g. https://github.com/yourorg-username/your-repo/settings/actions and scroll down to the Pull Requests section, and check Allow auto-merge. This isn't Dependabot-specific, but it is required for this to work. Without it, the gh pr merge --auto command in the workflow will fail. In fact t