content: Launch post — Open Docs PRs Under Your Own GitHub Account

[frances720]

Feature

Provide a GitHub personal access token when creating a docs PR and Promptless opens it under your account instead of the bot, with 24-hour server-side PAT caching and OSS managed-fork support.

Entries considered this run

Window: 2026-05-04 → 2026-05-11.

#	Entry	Decision	Reason
1	Open docs PRs as yourself — Provide a GitHub PAT to open docs PRs under your account; PAT cached server-side (encrypted) 24h; OSS fork collaborator invite flow	QUALIFIES	Unlocks human-authored PRs for teams with CODEOWNERS/branch-protection rules requiring non-bot authors; substantial new capability
2	Markdown Preview for Suggestion Diffs — Preview rendered Markdown/MDX diffs in the dashboard	QUALIFIES	See separate PR
3	Bot-Authored Commit Evaluation (bug fix) — Fixed Promptless skipping commits authored by bot accounts	SKIP	Bug fix
4	New Task selects doc collections — New Task form shows doc collections instead of projects	SKIP	UI reorganization, replaces label not capability
5	Per-task Slack notifications — Override Slack channel per task	SKIP	Config expansion on existing capability, no new use case unlocked
6	Per-task auto-publish — Toggle "Create PRs automatically" per task	SKIP	Config expansion on existing capability
7	Deep Analysis in New Task — Moved from sidebar tab to checkbox	SKIP	UI reorganization
8	Opt out of automatic suggestion base-sync — Organizations can disable proactive base-branch sync	SKIP	Config toggle, noise reduction, borderline defaulting NO
9	Closed PR indicator in suggestion review — PR button turns red when docs PR is closed without merging	SKIP	UI polish

3 commits in window. 9 entries considered, 2 qualified, 0 dropped as duplicates.

Covered entry (full text)

Open docs PRs as yourself: Provide a GitHub Personal Access Token when creating a docs PR to open it under your account instead of the Promptless bot. GitHub shows you as the PR author, and the commit credits you as the author with Promptless as a co-author. Paste the token once and Promptless caches it server-side (encrypted) for 24 hours, so subsequent PRs in that window reuse it automatically—useful when you want personal attribution or when your team's review workflows require human-authored PRs. The same flow now works for OSS doc collections backed by a Promptless-managed fork—if GitHub prompts you with a collaborator invite on the fork, accept it and retry once, and later PRs go through automatically.

Source: commit 5c78631 (May 2026 Changelog, #466).

PR(s) researched

Referenced as PR #3250 in commit message. MCP tools restricted to promptless/docs; article written from changelog entry.

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated (UTC)
promptless-docs	Ready	Preview, Comment	May 11, 2026 2:27pm

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We removed this functionality, it was an experiment for writing day only. So this feature is already gone.