Connect GitHub to your factory

When you connect a factory to GitHub, repository activity starts work in your factory. Issues, pull requests, reviews, and CI events can all trigger automations, and the factory posts results back to GitHub as comments, branches, and pull requests.

Prerequisites

• The Warp GitHub App - Follow the GitHub integration setup if you haven’t already. One installation serves both the platform integration and factories.
• A factory with GitHub repositories - The app must have access to at least one of the factory’s repositories.

Connect GitHub to a factory

1. In the Warp Factories web app, click + next to Factories to open the setup wizard, then choose I want to use repos from GitHub under Connect your code host.
2. Under Select your repos, choose the repositories to provide code and context for the factory.

New factories have default automations enabled for GitHub activity:

• Mentions and assignments - Start work by mentioning @warp or assigning the factory. See Mention the factory below.
• Pull request closed or merged - Completes linked work when a pull request with your factory’s label merges (which can move linked tracker issues to their completed state). An unmerged close is a no-op.
• Issue labeled and Pull request labeled - Start work when the factory’s label is applied to an issue or pull request.
• Pull request review submitted - Start work when a review is submitted on a pull request that carries the factory’s label.

To confirm the connection works, mention @warp on a test issue and check that a work item starts in the factory’s dashboard.

Add a custom automation

For events without a default automation, add a GitHub trigger and narrow it with the filters below. See editing automation filters.

For failed CI on the default branch, adapt this automation from 06-common-automations:

automations/ci-failure-triage/automation.md

---
triggers:
  - provider: github
    event: workflow_run_completed
    filter:
      repos: [acme/api-service]
      branches: [main]
      conclusions: [failure]
      skip_bots: self
---
A workflow run failed on the default branch. Read the run's logs and find
the failing step. If the cause is small and clear, open a fix PR. Otherwise
open an issue with the failing step, the error, and the commit range, and
link the run.

This example admits third-party bots but skips Warp-owned bots. See bot event troubleshooting for other options.

Supported triggers

Trigger	Supported activity
Issues	Created, labeled, assigned, or agent mentioned
Pull requests	Opened, marked ready, reopened, updated with commits, added to or removed from a merge queue, assigned, labeled, mentioned, closed, or merged
Reviews	Review requested or review submitted
Code and CI	Push, a completed check suite or workflow run

For the exact event value each trigger uses in a definition file, see triggers.

Automation filters

Every trigger names the repository it watches. The remaining filters appear only on the event types they apply to:

Filter	Matches	Appears on
Branches	The pushed branch, or a CI run’s head branch	Push and CI triggers
Base branches	The branch the pull request targets	Pull request triggers
Paths	The files the change touches	Push and pull request triggers
Labels	Labels on the issue or pull request	Issue, pull request, review submitted, and CI triggers
Authors	Who opened the issue or pull request	Issue, pull request, and CI triggers
Assignees	Who the issue or pull request is assigned to	Issue and pull request triggers
Mentioned users or teams	Which user or team is @mentioned	Mention and review submitted triggers
Reviewers and Reviewer teams	Who review was requested from	Review requested triggers
Review states	Whether the review approved, requested changes, or commented	Review submitted triggers
Workflows	The GitHub Actions workflow, by name	Workflow run triggers
Conclusions	The run’s result: success, failure, cancelled, and so on	Check suite and workflow run triggers
Skip bot events	Which bot senders to ignore; defaults to All bots	All GitHub triggers

On check suite and workflow run triggers, Labels and Authors match the pull request linked to the run rather than the run itself.

Mention the factory

Add the factory’s factory:<alias> label to the issue or pull request, then mention @warp in the opening body or a new comment. The alias is the Foreman name in the factory dashboard’s Identity settings. Warp creates the label with the factory, and the factory replies in the same thread.

Without the label, a linked Warp account can still route the mention:

• One accessible factory - Warp adds its label and starts work.
• Multiple accessible factories - Warp asks you to add the right label and mention @warp again.
• No accessible factory - Warp asks you to connect the repository or request access.

Only new content counts as a mention. Edits and mentions inside code blocks are ignored. Bot mentions follow the trigger’s bot policy.

To change what the factory answers to, edit its mentions automation’s handle and label filters. For example, use your own @org/team slug or remove the label requirement.

How the factory responds on GitHub

The factory posts progress and links in the originating issue, pull request, or review thread. Pushes and workflow runs report on the work item instead. New activity on an existing thread continues the same work item.

Issues and pull requests the factory opens or adopts carry its factory:<alias> label. Warp removes it when you disconnect the repository or delete the factory. Delete old labels after renaming the alias.

Branches and pull requests the factory creates follow the repository’s normal rules: branch protection, required reviews, and merge requirements all still apply.

Permissions

Runs authenticate with the GitHub App installation. Its repositories and permissions control access; automation filters only control when work starts.

See GitHub permissions and identity for the full credential model.

Factory-definition pull request checks

If the factory’s definition is managed as code in a GitHub repository, Warp reviews changes to it the way CI reviews code. Open a pull request that touches the definition files and a warp/factory-config check runs: it validates the head commit and dry-runs the change against your team, so it also catches a secret, runner, MCP server, or model that doesn’t exist. It passes with a summary of what merging would create, update, and delete, or fails with the specific fields to fix. If the definition lives in a subdirectory of the repository, the directory is appended to the check name, as in warp/factory-config (factory). Require the check in branch protection to stop an invalid definition from merging.

These checks validate configuration files only and don’t create work items. Unchanged definitions pass immediately, so requiring the check doesn’t block unrelated work. To check a definition before opening a pull request, see Validate a definition.

Troubleshooting

A mention doesn’t start work

Use a new @warp mention outside code blocks and add the factory’s factory:<alias> label for explicit routing. For unlabeled mentions, see mention routing. For bot comments, check the bot policy.

If you renamed the alias or changed repositories after creating the factory, the default automation’s filters still use the original snapshot. Edit that automation so the label and repository filters match.

A GitHub event doesn’t start work

Confirm the app installation covers the event’s repository, the repository belongs to the factory, and the automation includes that event. Then check each filter; a label, author, branch, workflow, conclusion, or state mismatch prevents routing.

Events from bots don’t start work

GitHub triggers skip bot events by default. This includes completed GitHub Actions workflows with a bot sender.

1. In the factory dashboard, open Automations and edit the automation’s GitHub trigger.
2. Click More filters. In the “Skip bot events” dropdown, choose Self (Warp-owned bots) to admit third-party bots while excluding Warp-owned bots, or None to admit all bots.
3. Click Save, then generate a new matching event and check the factory’s Runs page.

For definitions as code, set filter.skip_bots to self or none. Omitted skip_bots defaults to all. Admitting Warp-owned bots can cause feedback loops when the factory’s own actions match the trigger.

Filter options don’t load

Select a repository first. If the automation editor shows Connect GitHub, complete the account connection and retry. You can enter a value manually when suggestions are unavailable.

An agent can’t push a branch or open a pull request

Check that the installation still covers the target repository and grants the required write permissions. Automation filters don’t affect GitHub authorization.

A factory-definition check doesn’t appear

The check runs only for factories whose definition is managed as code in a GitHub repository. Confirm the pull request targets the branch the factory runs from and that the GitHub App covers the repository.

Related pages

• Factory automations - Configure event matching
• Factory troubleshooting - Diagnose events that don’t start work