[Feature Request] GitHub App @mentions feature

[robinroy03]

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Hi 👋

I wanted to integrate a feature where the GitHub App responds to @mentions. Imagine you're conversing in a discussion and want to get some information, you could @bot show roadmap or something and the bot will respond to it. Like Discord bots.

I've noticed that GitHub currently does not support this, and the only way to bypass this is by listening to messages and parsing text which contains @bot. Also, users will have to type it without typos since autofill is not available.

It would be awesome to have @mentions enabled natively.

[devthomy]

it can be very good idea!

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[jmehnle]

I would like to see this as well.

[kamilio]

Is there any workaround? e.g. creating a bot user that would handle it? @mention would be so nice