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Adding Weighted Task Selection to a GitHub Agentic Workflow
https://dsyme.net/2026/03/07/adding-weighted-task-selection-to-a-github-agentic-workflow/
How should an automated repository assistant decide what to work on next? Round-robin treats every task as equally important regardless of repo state. A weighted approach means the agent now does the right thing more often: when there’s a mountain of unlabelled issues it labels, when the backlog is clear it invests in engineering.
Read more on the blog of our Principal Researcher Don Syme.