Add daily sweep to enforce issue lifecycle label timeouts

Introduce a simple, mechanical daily sweep that closes issues with
lifecycle labels past their timeout:

- needs-repro: 7 days
- needs-info: 7 days
- needs-votes: 30 days
- stale: 30 days

The sweep checks when the label was last applied via the events API,
and closes the issue if the timeout has elapsed. No AI, no comment
checking — if the label is still there past its timeout, close it.
Removing a label (by a triager, slash command, or future AI retriage)
is what prevents closure.

Each close message directs the reporter to open a new issue rather
than engaging with the closed one.

The script supports --dry-run for local testing:
  GITHUB_TOKEN=$(gh auth token) \
  GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER=anthropics \
  GITHUB_REPOSITORY_NAME=claude-code \
  bun run scripts/sweep.ts --dry-run

## Test plan

Ran --dry-run against anthropics/claude-code. Correctly identified 3
issues past their timeouts (1 needs-repro at 12d, 2 needs-info at
14d and 26d). No false positives.
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name: "Daily Issue Sweep"
on:
schedule:
- cron: "0 10 * * *" # 2am Pacific
workflow_dispatch:
permissions:
issues: write
concurrency:
group: daily-issue-sweep
jobs:
sweep:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Setup Bun
uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v2
with:
bun-version: latest
- name: Enforce lifecycle timeouts
run: bun run scripts/sweep.ts
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
GITHUB_REPOSITORY_NAME: ${{ github.event.repository.name }}