## Summary of the Pull Request Replaces the retired GitHub Models-based automatic issue triage and deduplication flows with the GitHub Agentic Workflow proven in the `niels9001/powertoys-ai-triage-sandbox`. This PR also: - aligns `Needs-Author-Feedback` closure to 7 days for issues and PRs; - removes the automatic GitHub Models issue/PR labeler; - removes the automatic GitHub Models new-issue deduplicator; - removes the Azure Pipelines XAML Styler verification step while retaining the local styling script. This is a draft because production rollout still requires the appropriate privacy and Responsible AI reviews. ## Issue triage rules ### Triggers and refresh behavior - Runs when an issue is opened, edited, or reopened. - Runs when the issue author attaches a `PowerToysReport_*.zip` in a comment. - Maintainers can force regeneration with `/triage refresh`. - Ignores unrelated comments, unchanged issue edits, PR comments, and bot-initiated reopens. - Uses per-issue concurrency so a newer run supersedes an older run. - Maintains one canonical triage comment instead of adding repeated bot comments. ### Comment format - Separates **For the issue author** from **For the PowerToys team**. - Mentions the author once and lists each requested action as a bullet. - Distinguishes blocking **Needed** actions from non-blocking **Recommended** actions. - Shows the product, issue kind, reported PowerToys version, concise summary, diagnostic findings, possible duplicates, and collapsed investigation checks. - Ends with a short disclosure that triage is AI-assisted and maintainers make final decisions. ### Classification and labels - Detects PowerToys bug-template issues deterministically. - Reads the selected product area and adds a matching primary `Product-*` label. - Handles production aliases such as FancyZones Editor and File Explorer preview/thumbnail areas. - Product labeling is additive: existing product and maintainer labels are never removed. - Normalizes the reported PowerToys version and adds a matching version label when one exists. - Applies `Needs-Author-Feedback` only when blocking information or an English translation is required. - Removes `Needs-Author-Feedback` when the issue becomes actionable. ### PowerToys version rule - Compares the reported version with the latest stable PowerToys GitHub release. - Older versions receive a recommended update-and-retest action. - Current versions, newer preview/dev versions, missing versions, and release lookup failures are not flagged as outdated. - Updating is advisory and does not block triage by itself. ### Reproduction rule - Concrete actions plus an observed result are sufficient. - Concise steps can use the separate Actual Behavior section as the observed result. - Passive or intermittent failures are sufficient when the timing/trigger and observed failure are clear. - Vague statements without an actionable scenario remain insufficient. - Clearly non-English steps are not treated as missing; reproduction is reassessed after the author translates the issue. ### Language rule - Classifies author-written prose as English, non-English, or uncertain. - Ignores template headings, code, logs, filenames, URLs, hidden comments, and quoted text. - Clearly non-English issues ask the author to translate the title and description to English. - Short, mixed, code-heavy, or uncertain text is not flagged. ### Diagnostic report rule - A report is **required** for diagnostic-heavy failures: crashes, hangs, startup/load failures, installation/update failures, performance failures, and service/driver/shell-integration failures. - A report is **optional** for clear reproducible UI/visual defects. - A report is **recommended**, but not blocking, for other actionable bugs. - Missing or rejected reports block only when the deterministic requirement is `REQUIRED`. ### Diagnostic report privacy and safety - Accepts only PowerToys report attachment URLs matching the expected pattern. - Enforces archive size, decompressed size, file-count, per-file, path traversal, and encryption limits. - Selects only bounded relevant metadata and product-log evidence. - Redacts email addresses, IP addresses, user paths, URLs, GUIDs, SIDs, identity fields, tokens, secrets, and passwords. - Sends only the sanitized evidence to Copilot. - Never sends the raw ZIP or extracted files to Copilot, logs, artifacts, or repository storage. - Deletes the temporary archive after processing. ### Duplicate rule - Searches only older issues using focused product, title/body, and exact technical-signal queries. - Ranks candidates deterministically before Copilot runs. - Copilot judges only the supplied candidates and returns at most five high-confidence matches. - Similar product area alone is not enough; the underlying request or failure must match. - The model never closes an issue directly. - The workflow submits the strongest match as a native GitHub duplicate-close suggestion. - **When a maintainer accepts the suggestion, GitHub automatically closes the issue as a duplicate and links it to the selected canonical issue.** - Declining the suggestion leaves the issue open. - A defensive safeguard reopens the issue and fails the run if GitHub applies the close without holding it for review. ### AI cost and permission controls - Uses the `small` model alias. - Maximum 5 turns and 10 AI credits per run. - Maximum 300 AI credits per day. - Maximum 5 runs per user per 60-minute window. - Content hashing skips unchanged work before inference. - The agent receives only `contents: read`, `issues: read`, and `copilot-requests: write`. - A separate validated safe-output job receives `issues: write`. ## Seven-day author-feedback lifecycle The existing Microsoft GitHub Policy Service configuration remains responsible for stale closure: - Open issues with `Needs-Author-Feedback` and no activity for 7 days are closed with an explanatory comment. - Open PRs with `Needs-Author-Feedback` and no activity for 7 days are closed with an explanatory comment. - An author comment removes `Needs-Author-Feedback` and returns the issue/PR to team triage. - An author push removes `Needs-Author-Feedback` from a PR. - Manually removing the label immediately makes the issue or PR ineligible for scheduled closure. ## Deprecated automation - Deletes `.github/workflows/automatic-issue-deduplication.yml`. - Deletes `.github/workflows/auto-labeler.yml`. - Automatic PR product labeling from the old Models workflow is intentionally not replaced in this PR; a production PR ownership/path map should be agreed separately. - Keeps the manual batch deduplication workflow unchanged. - Removes the passive XAML Styler verification step from `.pipelines/v2/templates/job-build-project.yml`. - Keeps `.pipelines/applyXamlStyling.ps1` available for local developer use. ## Validation Steps Performed - Compiled `.github/workflows/issue-triage.md` with `gh aw compile`. - Ran 32 focused Python tests for issue parsing, duplicate retrieval, version checks, reproduction rules, language signals, archive validation, report selection, redaction, and output privacy. - Parsed the changed workflow and resource-management YAML. - Verified the required production labels exist. - Tested the workflow against the latest 20 PowerToys issues in the sandbox; all 20 produced one canonical comment. - Verified live variants for outdated versions, intermittent/passive reproduction, non-English issues, rejected and analyzed reports, optional UI reports, and title-only issues. ## PR Checklist - [ ] **Communication:** Discussed with core contributors. - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all focused tests pass. - [ ] **Privacy / Responsible AI:** Complete required production reviews before enabling. - [x] **Localization:** No product UI strings are added. - [x] **Dev docs:** Updated repository automation documentation. - [x] **New binaries:** None. --------- Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Copilot-Session: 18a9b8ad-fd7e-4b9d-a06c-5e350bcde9d7 Copilot-Session: fd512b9b-db6f-4004-a65b-aa49404d568d
Microsoft PowerToys
Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that help you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks.
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🔨 Utilities
PowerToys includes over 30 utilities to help you customize and optimize your Windows experience:
📦 Installation
For detailed installation instructions and system requirements, visit the installation docs.
But to get started quickly, choose one of the installation methods below:
Download the .exe file from GitHub
Go to the PowerToys GitHub releases, scroll down and select Assets to reveal the installation files, and choose the one that matches your architecture and install scope. For most devices, that would be x64 per-user.
WinGet
Download PowerToys from [WinGet](https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli#installing-the-client). Updating PowerToys via winget will respect the current PowerToys installation scope. To install PowerToys, run the following command from the command line / PowerShell:
- User scope installer (default)
winget install Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget
- Machine-wide scope installer
winget install --scope machine Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget
Other methods
There are [community driven install methods](https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/powertoys/install#community-driven-install-tools) such as Chocolatey and Scoop. If these are your preferred install solutions, you can find the install instructions there.
✨ What's new?
To see what's new, check out the release notes.
🛣️ Roadmap
We are planning some nice new features and improvements for the next releases – a brand-new Shortcut Guide experience, ensuring it's easier to find and install Command Palette extensions and so much more! Stay tuned for v0.100!
❤️ PowerToys Community
The PowerToys team is extremely grateful to have the support of an amazing active community. The work you do is incredibly important. PowerToys wouldn't be nearly what it is today without your help filing bugs, updating documentation, guiding the design, or writing features. We want to say thank you and take time to recognize your work. Your contributions and feedback improve PowerToys month after month!
Contributing
This project welcomes contributions of all types. Besides coding features / bug fixes, other ways to assist include spec writing, design, documentation, and finding bugs. We are excited to work with the power user community to build a set of tools for helping you get the most out of Windows. We ask that before you start work on a feature that you would like to contribute, please read our Contributor's Guide. We would be happy to work with you to figure out the best approach, provide guidance and mentorship throughout feature development, and help avoid any wasted or duplicate effort. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you grant us the rights to use your contribution and that you have permission to do so. For guidance on developing for PowerToys, please read the developer docs for a detailed breakdown. This includes how to setup your computer to compile.
Code of conduct
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.
Privacy statement
The application logs basic diagnostic data (telemetry). For more privacy information and what we collect, see our PowerToys Data and Privacy documentation.

