This github action automatically generates the body of a pull request by summarizing the changes made in the code diff. The action requires an OpenAI account to work and the input variable OPENAI_API_KEY must be set with an openai API key.
Here's an example workflow that uses this action. Detailed explanation are given in the following sections
name: Auto-PR-Body Generator
on:
pull_request:
permissions:
contents: read
repository-projects: write
pull-requests: write
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: AI powerd Automatic PR Body Generation
uses: jbrocher/auto-pr-body-generator@v0.2.2
with:
OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}The action will look for a PR opened for the git ref that triggered the action. We recommend triggering the action once the PR is opened and on each subsequent push so the body is kept up to date. This can be achieved wit the pull_request trigger :
on:
pull_request:In order to edit the PR body, at the minimum you workflow must set the following permissions:
permissions:
contents: read
repository-projects: write
pull-requests: writeThis action relies on Openai to generate the body, and as such needs an active open aiaccount to work. Once you've generated an API key, pass it as input to the action using the with directive:
- name: Auto-PR-Body Generator
uses: jbrocher/auto-pr-body-generator@v0.1.0
with:
OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}The action indicates the start of the automatically generated body with the following delimiter ### === auto-pr-body ===
Please note that the action will replace everything after the delimiter in the PR body each time it runs. If you want to keep some content in the PR body, make sure to add it before the delimiter.