GitHub Issue & PR Auto-Closer

Development teams waste time manually reviewing stale or resolved issues and pull requests. ClawSweeper automatically scans repositories, identifies closeable items with reasoning, and suggests cleanup — saving maintainers hours per week. Target: open-source maintainers and DevOps teams.

Repository hygiene has become a genuine pain point as GitHub project sizes scale and maintainer burnout is a documented, widely-discussed problem in open source — tools that reduce toil have clear pull right now. Stale-bot and Probot's stale plugin already handle basic staleness detection for free, which is the most dangerous substitution risk; the value proposition has to rest on the "reasoning" layer, meaning LLM-generated justifications for closure rather than just age-based rules. The $1k–5k/mo band is realistic only if it skews toward DevOps teams at small-to-mid companies rather than open-source maintainers, who are notoriously price-resistant and often expect this kind of tooling to be free or open-source itself. The single most likely failure mode is that GitHub's own native features — stale issue warnings, auto-close settings — keep improving and eat the core use case before paying customers accumulate.