Repo Assist: Crunching the Technical Debt with GitHub Agentic Workflows

https://dsyme.net/2026/02/25/repo-assist-a-repository-assistant/
Don Syme
Don Syme

Can automated repository assistants help maintainers re-engage with stale repositories weighed down by years of technical debt? Repo Assist uses GitHub Agentic Workflows to label issues, answer questions, propose fixes, and make engineering improvements — all while the maintainer stays in control through pull request review.

Read more on the blog of our Principal Researcher Don Syme.