PURPOSE How to assign an issue to yourself or another user when permitted. GENERAL STEPS Open GitHub in a supported browser, sign in with the correct work account, and navigate to the organization, repository, issue, pull request, branch, notification, or file related to the task. VERIFY RESULTS Confirm that the repository, issue, comment, branch, pull request, review, file, label, or notification setting appears as expected before closing the task. TROUBLESHOOTING If GitHub behaves unexpectedly, refresh the page, confirm you are in the correct organization, check your repository permissions, and capture any error message or access denial. BEST PRACTICE Do not publish secrets, passwords, tokens, private keys, customer data, or confidential information in repositories, issues, comments, or pull requests.