GitHub Action for Automating Inactive Issue Cleaning

.github/workflows/close_inactive_issues.yml

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+# This action will run every day at 5:00am EST
+# If an issue has had no activity (comments) in 90-days, it will add the tag 'stale' and and comment to notify of the status.
+# If an issue that has been marked stale is inactive for an additional 90-days, it will close the issue.
+
+# Note: You must set the GitHub Repository Secret STALE_PAT to a Personal Access Token (PAT) that allows the stale workflow to authenticate and perform API calls to GitHub.
+
+# Ref: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-issues-and-pull-requests/closing-inactive-issues
+
+name: Tag Stale and Close Inactive
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "0 5 * * *"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  close-issues:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      issues: write
+      pull-requests: write
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/stale@v5
+        with:
+          days-before-issue-stale: 90
+          days-before-issue-close: 90
+          stale-issue-label: "stale"
+          stale-issue-message: "This issue is stale because it has been open for 90 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 90 days."
+          close-issue-message: "This issue was closed because it has been inactive for 90 days since being marked as stale."
+          days-before-pr-stale: -1
+          days-before-pr-close: -1
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.STALE_PAT }}