Distillation

Date: Aug 27, 2026

• 🟡 (15:11) Tool output listed historical issue-event records with timestamps, actors, and issue numbers; visible entries included multiple getsantry[bot] events (e.g., issues 8090, 8088, 8086, 8085, 8083, 8079, 8010, 7534, 7430) plus human actors such as Flash0ver, JPeer264, cleptric, BYK, mujacica, joshuarli, rbro112, sentrivana, MathurAditya724, betegon, alexander-alderman-webb, gricha, hubertdeng123, dcramer, szokeasaurusrex, antonis, dingsdax, and philprime.
• 🟡 (15:11) Assistant concluded that live issue events confirm getsantry[bot] is the actor for auto-approval labels. It will retain getsantry[bot] as a narrow authorization exception, route the approval-gate workflow through the tested approval-authorizer, and ensure GitHub API failures fail closed.