These are the github bots you've been looking for

By and for github users. Yes, that includes you, my dear bots...overloards?

By popularity

TBD #2

Alphabetic list (excluding "archived" ones)

Discontinued ones go under Archived.

• bors-ng - https://bors.tech/ (RIP +homu https://bors.tech/homu-io/)
• code-review-bot https://github.com/google/code-review-bot
• derek - https://github.com/alexellis/derek/
• dreck - https://github.com/miekg/dreck a derek fork made for Caddy
• probot bots
  • SDK: https://github.com/probot/probot
  • implemented bots: https://github.com/googleapis/repo-automation-bots#implemented-bots
  • maybe also probot? https://github.com/apps/project-bot

By feature

SURVEY: Please describe your dream github bot

Most used features:

• Quick review with +/- approval votes
• Policing against abuse and spammyness
• and for closing down old / unproductive issues and PRs

For github features there's https://github.com/marketplace which at least shows some ideas.

And now also this wiki page: https://github.com/these-are-the/github-bots-youre-looking-for/wiki/Known-bot-feats

Archived

• +homu https://bors.tech/homu-io/

Similar projects or listings

• https://github.com/mairieli/awesome-se-bots#bots (GPL v.3. Hm.)

Bots in the wild (not focused on github)

HI! I'M ELIZA. WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM?

• https://github.com/invocable/awesome-bots
• https://awesomeopensource.com/project/abdelhai/awesome-bots
• A special mention: https://github.com/hubotio

Agents

There is no such agent-cy. Or is that a bot, in disguise?

• https://github.com/huginn/huginn - Your agents are standing by.

Distinguishing bots from agents

git diff bot..agent # ???

See, in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huginn/huginn/master/doc/imgs/diagram.png you see that agents can DO a lot of things, but preferably, one agent is very good at a single task. Or you send a bunch, and hope one gets it right and none of them breaks cover the software environment. So... maybe keep any agents (and bots) out of your backup solution, for now? I CAN'T LET YOU DO THAT, DAVE

Where does the bot begin and end, relative to its context? Classically, bot would come from robot, whihc had some means of performing some limited actions (motion) as an effect of some stimuli.

github bots

But let's ass-u-me that we can all agree that github bots are being - likely non-corporal - beings that can communiacte and perform some github-related actions. If they don't do anything github related, then they are not the bots you (or at least this page) is looking for.

Physical bots

And a frindly wave to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIMO