Automerged PRs not triggering workflows with pull_request and push events

[grzegorzkrukowski]

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I enabled auto-merging for my PRs after a certain amount of reviews, they are getting merged by github-actions[bots].
Probably because of that, none of my workflows is being triggered...

name: Release - Publish
run-name: "Publish release"

on:
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - production
  pull_request_target:
    branches:
      - production
  push:
    branches:
      - production

jobs:
  publish_release:
    name: Publish release
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 10
    steps:
      - name: Debug event info
        run: |
          echo "Event name: ${{ github.event_name }}"
          echo "Event action: ${{ github.event.action }}"
          echo "Ref: ${{ github.ref }}"
          echo "Base ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.ref }}"
          echo "PR merged?: ${{ github.event.pull_request.merged }}"
          echo "PR number: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}"
          echo "PR title: ${{ github.event.pull_request.title }}"
          echo "Actor: ${{ github.actor }}"
          echo "Repository: ${{ github.repository }}"
          echo "SHA: ${{ github.sha }}"

Is there a way to workaround this problem and auto-close the PR's that will trigger the workflows properly?

Do I need to have a separate workflow to react to PR reviews and close them using a Personal Access Token?