Replying to a PR comment

[mstriebeck]

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I am building an agent that allows coding agents to respond to PR comments by making code changes but also to reply to the PR comment.

I tried using the REST API (https://api.github.com/repos/{REPO_OWNER}/{REPO_NAME}/pulls/comments/{comment_id}/replies). But always get the response:
{
"message": "Not Found",
"documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest",
"status": "404"
}

I made sure that the comment_id is correct.

• I tried both with classic (repo permissions) and fine-grained (content and pr read/write access) tokens
• I tried using the same user who created the comment and a different user

When I create the original comment, I create it as a review comment (i.e. use "Start a Review" not "Add a single comment") and then I submit the review.

I must be missing something obvious. Any help or pointers to sample code would be helpful.

Thanks
Mark

[mstriebeck]

Thanks for the quick reply!

I am trying to reconcile your two comments ...

So, the replies endpoint should work for the "Add single comment" created comments, right?

But then you say that I can't reply to a comment at all and need to post a new review comment?

So, what does the replies endpoint actually do then?

[mstriebeck]

Thank you!!!!