← All toolsDevelopergithubAll editions

UPDATE_ISSUE

Update an existing issue (change title, body, state, labels, assignees).

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDescription
ownerstringyesRepository owner
repostringyesRepository name
issue_numberintegeryesIssue number
titlestringβ€”New title (optional)
bodystringβ€”New body (optional)
stateopen | closedβ€”New state (optional)
labelsarrayβ€”Replace labels (optional)

How to use it

You normally trigger this by describing what you want in chat β€” the agent selects UPDATE_ISSUE automatically. For example:

Try saying
β€œuse github to update …”

In a workflow

As a step in a multi-step workflow DAG:

json
{
  "id": "s1",
  "agent": "github",
  "action": "UPDATE_ISSUE",
  "args": {
    "owner": "…",
    "repo": "…",
    "issue_number": 1
  },
  "depends_on": [],
  "outputs": []
}

Direct call

For scripting, call it directly via POST /execute_tool. Every tool returns { success, message, data }.

bash
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/execute_tool \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tool_name":"UPDATE_ISSUE","args":{"owner":"…","repo":"…","issue_number":1}}'

Part of the github plugin. Browse the full Plugin & Tool Catalog or the relevant feature guide.