GitHub

A BDK Book containing automation procedures for GitHub.

Overview

This Book provides automation procedures for interacting with GitHub. Adding this Book to a Kognitos agent empowers it to perform a wide range of GitHub operations. Agents that have learned this Book can automate with GitHub issues, pull requests, repositories, user data, and team data.

Prerequisites

Learning the GitHub (BDK)

Before using the Book’s procedures in an automation, you must learn the Book by adding it to your agent. Follow the steps below to get started.

1. In the left navigation bar, click on Books.

2. Click on + New Book.

3. Search for the Book's name. Click on the version tagged with bdk.

Note: If the Book requires connectivity, you will be prompted to provide configuration details.

1. Click Add to finish adding your Book.

After learning a Book, publish your agent and create a new Playground. Previously created Playgrounds will not be able to recognize the new Book.

Connectivity

The following configuration details are required when learning the GitHub BDK Book:

Label	Description	Type
GitHub API Key	The API key to use for connecting to GitHub.	Text

An "API Key" refers to a GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT). You can generate a PAT in your GitHub account settings under Developer settings > Personal access tokens. Ensure you grant the necessary repository permissions and account permissions for the procedures you intend to use.