How We Built a Safe GitHub Bounty Lifecycle for MyZubster MyZubster is evolving into a distributed ecosystem of repositories, services, automation, hardware projects, AI components, and contributor workflows.
As the number of repositories and contributors increased, one problem became increasingly important: How do we automate bounty workflows without accidentally treating a GitHub event as proof of payment, verification, or settlement?
We recently completed an important part of that architecture: a real-time GitHub bounty lifecycle system.
And we tested it end-to-end.
The lifecycle We use an explicit bounty lifecycle instead of assuming that an issue, pull request, or merge means a bounty has been completed.
The lifecycle is roughly: