🌟 Summary
Ultralytics Actions v0.2.8 focuses on smarter, cleaner automation: better AI-powered PR reviews, richer GitHub issue templates, and powerful markdown/code formatting tools for both files and in-memory strings. ✨
📊 Key Changes
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🧩 New markdown string formatter (core of this release)
- Added
process_markdown_string(...)to format Python and Bash code blocks inside in-memory markdown strings, not just files. - Reuses existing formatting logic (
process_markdown_file,format_code_with_ruff,format_bash_with_prettier,update_markdown_file) for consistent behavior. - Safely handles temp files via
tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()so nothing is written permanently.
- Added
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🤖 Smarter, more focused AI PR reviews
- Switched review generation to the
gpt-5.1-codexmodel for better code understanding. - Introduced
should_skip_file()and refined skip patterns to avoid generated/minified/irrelevant files. - Added safeguards:
- Ignore non-file paths and files larger than 100 KB.
- Limit file content to a 5,000-character snippet, with a clear
... (truncated)marker.
- Added prompt controls:
- Uses a conservative token budget estimate to stay under
MAX_PROMPT_CHARS. - Caps inline review comments at
MAX_REVIEW_COMMENTS = 8. - Sorts comments by severity, then file, then line number using
SEVERITY_RANK.
- Uses a conservative token budget estimate to stay under
- Improves GitHub API usage for reviews and comments:
- Proper pagination (
?per_page=100) for reviews and comments. - Correct delete endpoint for inline comments (
/pulls/comments/{id}). - More robust HTTP status handling: only treat unexpected status codes as hard errors.
- Proper pagination (
- Adds detailed debug logging (system and user prompts) specifically when running in
ultralytics/actionsfor easier troubleshooting.
- Switched review generation to the
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🧹 Consistent Prettier formatting at 120 characters
- Updated
action.ymlandupdate_markdown_code_blocks.pyso Prettier runs with--print-width 120for:- JS/TS, CSS, JSON, YAML, HTML, Vue, Svelte, etc.
- Shell scripts via
prettier-plugin-sh. - Markdown files (including docs, with existing
--tab-width 4preserved).
- Ensures generated shell code blocks in markdown also use the 120-character width.
- Updated
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🧭 Cleaner URL handling & GitHub client refactor
- Simplified
clean_url()to more reliably strip quotes, trailing punctuation,.git@main, andgit+, including nested cases. - Refactored
GitHubClientto parse and storeownerandrepo_nameonce, then reuse them in:is_org_memberget_label_ids(GraphQL)block_userget_pr_contributors
- Improved HTTP request handling:
- Separates “status is expected” from “status is successful”.
- Only raises errors when status is unexpected, not just because it’s 4xx, making workflows more resilient.
- Simplified
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📋 New GitHub issue templates & support links
- Added structured Bug Report, Feature Request, and Question templates under
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/. - Each template guides users to provide context, logs, environment details, and minimal repro examples.
- Introduced shared
config.ymlwith quick links to:
- Added structured Bug Report, Feature Request, and Question templates under
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🔢 Version bump
actions/__init__.pyversion updated from0.2.7to0.2.8.
🎯 Purpose & Impact
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🚀 Easier programmatic docs & content generation
process_markdown_string(...)lets you format markdown that lives purely in memory (e.g., generated docs, bot comments, PR descriptions) without touching the filesystem.- Ensures Python and Bash code blocks are consistently formatted whether they come from files or are dynamically generated.
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🤖 Higher-quality, more reliable PR reviews
- Using
gpt-5.1-codexshould improve code understanding and the relevance of automated feedback. - Smarter file skipping, size limits, and content truncation keep the AI focused on meaningful changes and avoid wasting tokens on noise.
- Comment capping, severity-based sorting, and concise-guidance produce fewer but higher-value review comments, making them easier for maintainers to act on.
- More robust API handling reduces flaky failures and edge cases when dismissing old reviews or deleting previous comments.
- Using
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📏 Cleaner, more readable code and docs
- A unified 120-character line width across JS/TS, shell scripts, and markdown reduces wrapping noise and makes diffs easier to review.
- Consistent formatting across CI, local runs, and doc-generation tools leads to more predictable outputs and fewer formatting-only PR changes.
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🧱 Stronger infrastructure for automation
- Refined URL cleaning avoids broken or malformed links in generated content and summaries.
- Centralized repo owner/name handling simplifies future integrations with GitHub APIs and reduces subtle bugs.
- Clearer error semantics (expected vs. unexpected statuses) help workflows fail less often while still surfacing true misconfigurations.
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🙋 Better support and community interaction
- Structured issue templates help users provide the right information the first time, making it faster to reproduce and fix problems.
- Direct links to docs and community channels encourage self-help and discussion, reducing friction for both users and maintainers.
Overall, v0.2.8 makes Ultralytics Actions more developer-friendly, more robust in CI, and better suited for automated documentation and review workflows. 💼✨
What's Changed
- Guard large files in PR Reviews by @glenn-jocher in #652
- PR Review improvements by @glenn-jocher in #653
- Add owner and repo_name properties to Actions object by @glenn-jocher in #656
- Fix delete comments by @glenn-jocher in #657
- Add Issue templates by @glenn-jocher in #658
- Prettier 120 line width by @glenn-jocher in #659
- Update update_markdown_code_blocks.py to 120 print width by @glenn-jocher in #660
- Update review_pr.py by @glenn-jocher in #661
- New format Markdown string function by @glenn-jocher in #663
Full Changelog: v0.2.7...v0.2.8