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Update Issue

Update an existing issue: change its title, body, state (open/closed), labels, assignees, or milestone. Provide the repository as an owner/repo string and the issue number. Setting labels replaces the full label set (it does not append), so include any existing labels you want to keep. Closing an issue is done here by setting state to closed. Use Get Issue first if you need the current values. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • Destructive
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's GitHub account once, then configure and run Update Issue from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "github-update-issue",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    github: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    repoFullname: "Repository",
    issueNumber: 10,
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Update Issue inputs
Property Type Description
repoFullname Repository string
The repository in owner/repo format, for example PipedreamHQ/pipedream (not case sensitive). If you pass just a repository name with no owner (e.g. my-repo), the authenticated user is assumed as the owner — convenient for "my repo" requests. Do NOT repeat the repository name as the owner (e.g. my-repo/my-repo); if you don't know the owner, pass only the name or run List Repositories to find it.
Required
issueNumber Issue Number integer
The issue number — the #N shown in the GitHub UI, not the global issue ID. Use Search Issues and Pull Requests or Get Issue to find it when you only know the title.
Required
title Title string
The new title of the issue.
Optional
body Body string
The new text body of the issue. Supports GitHub-flavored Markdown.
Optional
state State string
Set the issue to open or closed.
Optional
labels Labels string[]
Label names for the issue, e.g. ["bug", "enhancement"]. This replaces the existing labels — include any you want to keep. Labels must already exist in the repository.
Optional
assignees Assignees string[]
GitHub logins to assign to the issue, e.g. ["octocat"]. Replaces the existing assignees.
Optional
milestoneNumber Milestone Number integer
The number of an existing milestone to associate with the issue.
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
github-update-issue
Version
0.3.3
App
GitHub
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
No
Destructive
Yes
Open world
Yes