[awss1i]

What This Changes

The welcome bot comments "Thanks for your first pull request here" on pull requests from people who have opened one before, including the owner. actions/first-interaction causes this, in v3.1.0 and on its main branch (actions/first-interaction#369). It comments when either of two checks passes, and both are wrong for a pull request:

• It checks whether the author has opened an issue before, so anyone who has never opened an issue gets the pull request welcome every time.
• Its pull request check counts earlier pull requests by anyone, not by the author.

This replaces the action with a gh step. The step lists the author's earlier issues and pull requests from the REST issues endpoint, keeps the ones of the same kind with a lower number, and comments only when there are none. The owner and bots are skipped. The welcome messages are unchanged.

GitHub runs pull_request_target workflows from the base branch, so this pull request gets the old comment one more time.

Kind

• Bug fix
• False-alarm fix
• Benchmark improvement
• Feature
• Plugin or harness support
• Docs
• Misc

Tests

I ran the step's script locally against this repository with the comment call replaced by echo:

author	number	kind	result
awss1i	7	pull request	no welcome, has #6
awss1i	8	issue	welcome (the job's if skips the owner first)
dependabot[bot]	5	pull request	no welcome, has #4 (the job's if skips bots first)
a new author	9	pull request	welcome

With a repository that doesn't exist, gh api fails and the step exits 1 without posting.

Benchmarks

Not needed. The change doesn't touch a rule or any file in bench/.

AI use

• AI-written or AI-assisted, and I've read every line.