diff --git a/.github/labeler.yml b/.github/labeler.yml
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+# A bot for automatically labelling pull requests 
+# See https://github.com/actions/labeler
+
+dataframe:
+  - changed-files:
+    - any-glob-to-any-file:
+      - crates/nu_plugin_polars/**
+
+std-library:
+  - changed-files:
+    - any-glob-to-any-file:
+      - crates/nu-std/**
+
+ci:
+  - changed-files:
+    - any-glob-to-any-file:
+      - .github/workflows/**
+
+
+LSP:
+  - changed-files:
+    - any-glob-to-any-file:
+      - crates/nu-lsp/**
+
+parser:
+  - changed-files:
+    - any-glob-to-any-file:
+      - crates/nu-parser/**
+
+pr:plugins:
+  - changed-files:
+    - any-glob-to-any-file:
+      # plugins API
+      - crates/nu-plugin/**
+      - crates/nu-plugin-core/**
+      - crates/nu-plugin-engine/**
+      - crates/nu-plugin-protocol/**
+      - crates/nu-plugin-test-support/**
+      # specific plugins (like polars)
+      - crates/nu_plugin_*
diff --git a/.github/workflows/labels.yml b/.github/workflows/labels.yml
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+# Automatically labels PRs based on the configuration file
+# you are probably looking for 👉 `.github/labeler.yml`
+name: Label PRs
+
+on:
+  - pull_request_target
+
+jobs:
+  triage:
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      pull-requests: write
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: github.repository_owner == 'nushell'
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/labeler@v5
+        with:
+          repo-token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
+          sync-labels: true
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