GitHub Action that uses the gh project cli extension to get info about a project from the command line

gh-cli-projects-actions.yml

name: Add a new GitHub Project card linked to a GitHub issue to the specified project column
on:
  issues:
    types: [ opened, labeled, unlabeled ]
env:
  GITHUB_ORG: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
  GITHUB_PROJECT_NAME: "Continuous-Devops-GitHub-App-MasterBlaster"
  GITHUB_EVENT: ${{ toJson(github.event) }}
  GITHUB_ISSUE: ${{ toJson(github.event.issue) }}
  GITHUB_ISSUE_URL: ${{ github.event.issue.html_url }}
  GITHUB_ISSUE_NUM: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
  GITHUB_LABELS: ${{ toJson(github.event.issue.labels) }}
jobs:
  github-actions-automate-projects:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: "Install `gh` CLI extension for `projects`"
      run: |
        gh extension install github/gh-projects
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GHPROJECT_TOKEN }}
    - name: "Get project and field details, Number, ID, Field=Status, and Option IDs"
      run: |
        GITHUB_PROJECT_NUM=$(gh projects list --org=$GITHUB_ORG --format=json| jq ".projects[] | select(.title|test(\"$GITHUB_PROJECT_NAME\")) | .number")
        GITHUB_PROJECT_ID=$(gh projects list --org=$GITHUB_ORG --format=json| jq -r '.projects[] | select(.title|test("Continuous.")) | .id')
        GITHUB_ITEM_ID=$(gh projects item-list $GITHUB_PROJECT_NUM --org=$GITHUB_ORG --format=json | jq -r ".items[] | select(.content.number == $GITHUB_ISSUE_NUM) | .id")
        GITHUB_STATUS_ID=$(gh projects field-list $GITHUB_PROJECT_NUM --org=$GITHUB_ORG --format=json | jq -r '.fields[] | select(.name|test("Status")) | .id')
        GITHUB_BACKLOG_ID=$(gh projects field-list $GITHUB_PROJECT_NUM --org=$GITHUB_ORG --format=json | jq -r '.fields[] | select(.name|test("Status")) | .options[] | select(.name|test(".Backlog")) | .id')
        GITHUB_NEW_ID=$(gh projects field-list $GITHUB_PROJECT_NUM --org=$GITHUB_ORG --format=json | jq -r '.fields[] | select(.name|test("Status")) | .options[] | select(.name|test(".New")) | .id')
        echo "GITHUB_PROJECT_NUM=$GITHUB_PROJECT_NUM" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        echo "GITHUB_PROJECT_ID=$GITHUB_PROJECT_ID" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        echo "GITHUB_ITEM_ID=$GITHUB_ITEM_ID" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        echo "GITHUB_STATUS_ID=$GITHUB_STATUS_ID" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        echo "GITHUB_BACKLOG_ID=$GITHUB_BACKLOG_ID" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        echo "GITHUB_NEW_ID=$GITHUB_NEW_ID" >> $GITHUB_ENV
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GHPROJECT_TOKEN }}
    - name: Echo "GitHub Project env variables"
      run: |
        echo "GitHub organization: $GITHUB_ORG"
        echo "GitHub Project Name: $GITHUB_PROJECT_NAME"
        echo "GitHub Project Number: $GITHUB_PROJECT_NUM"
        echo "GitHub Project id: $GITHUB_PROJECT_ID"
        echo "GitHub item id: $GITHUB_ITEM_ID"
        echo "GitHub Status id: $GITHUB_STATUS_ID"
        echo "GitHub Backlog Status id: $GITHUB_BACKLOG_ID"
        echo "GitHub New Status id: $GITHUB_NEW_ID"
        echo "GitHub github.event"
        echo "$GITHUB_EVENT"
        echo "GitHub github.event.issue"
        echo "$GITHUB_ISSUE"        
        echo "GitHub github.event.issue.labels on issue $GITHUB_ISSUE_URL"
        echo "$GITHUB_LABELS"
        echo "GitHub github.event.issue.number is $GITHUB_ISSUE_NUM"
    - name: "Assign issue in project ${{ env.GITHUB_PROJECT }} to Backlog column"
      if: "contains(github.event.issue.labels.*.name, 'backlog')"
      run: |
        gh projects item-edit --id=$GITHUB_ITEM_ID --project-id=$GITHUB_PROJECT_ID --single-select-option-id=$GITHUB_BACKLOG_ID --field-id=$GITHUB_STATUS_ID
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GHPROJECT_TOKEN }}
    - name: "Assign issue in project ${{ env.GITHUB_PROJECT }} to New column"
      if: "!contains(github.event.issue.labels.*.name, 'backlog')"
      run: |
        gh projects item-edit --id=$GITHUB_ITEM_ID --project-id=$GITHUB_PROJECT_ID --single-select-option-id=$GITHUB_NEW_ID --field-id=$GITHUB_STATUS_ID
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GHPROJECT_TOKEN }}