review

The review action reviews the pull request. You can use it to approve or request a change on a pull request.

Options

Key Name	Value Type	Default	Value Description
bot_account	Template		Premium Plan Feature 🦾 Mergify can impersonate a GitHub user to review a pull request. If no bot_account is set, Mergify will review the pull request itself.
message	Template		The message to write as a comment.
type	string	APPROVE	The kind of review, can be APPROVE, REQUEST_CHANGES, COMMENT

Examples

You can use Mergify to review a pull request on your behalf. This can be handy if you require a minimum number of review to be present on a pull request (e.g., due to branch protection) but wants to automate some merge.

Dependabot is the bot behind GitHub automatic security update. It sends automatic updates for your project's dependencies, making sure they are secure. You can automate the approval of pull request created by dependabot with a rule such as:

pull_request_rules:
  - name: automatic approval for Dependabot pull requests
    conditions:
      - author=dependabot[bot]
    actions:
      review:
        type: APPROVE
        message: Automatically approving dependabot