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Using GitHub CLI in workflows

You can script with GitHub CLI in GitHub Actions workflows.

To learn more about GitHub CLI, see "About GitHub CLI."

GitHub CLI is preinstalled on all GitHub-hosted runners. For each step that uses GitHub CLI, you must set an environment variable called GITHUB_TOKEN to a token with the required scopes.

You can execute any GitHub CLI command. For example, this workflow uses the gh issue comment subcommand to add a comment when an issue is opened.

YAML

name: Comment when opened