the norms of issue trackers are strongly opposed to “bump”. these autoclose bots may yet change that

In this case there is a two phase staleness check. The bot marks it as stale and it is correct to "bump" it if you think it is still important. The nixpkgs repo works the same way. I think it backs off from adding stale again as it gets bumped.

I'm not saying it's a perfect solution but for projects that deal with large amounts of issues it's workable.

Yes, now the poster of the issue just needs to (tell claude to) write a bot which posts a "bump" comment every 17 days, and the bots will cancel each other out.