She clicked .

“We need a fix live in two hours,” she muttered, pulling up the GitHub Marketplace. Her eyes landed on the .

She had always ignored the Credits tab—just another gamified developer tool. But today, she clicked. In the ecosystem of GitHub automation, Probot is a framework for building apps that automate workflows: welcoming new contributors, labeling issues, running security checks, or merging pull requests. Many of these Probot-powered apps are free, but advanced features (e.g., high-speed vulnerability scanning, concurrent CI/CD runners, or priority support) require Probot Credits .