diff --git a/.github/workflows/01.1.agentic_cron.yml b/.github/workflows/01.1.agentic_cron.yml
index 4569aed6..5a9af98d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/01.1.agentic_cron.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/01.1.agentic_cron.yml
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ jobs:
           TITLE="Curation Report: $STATUS - $(date +'%Y-%m-%d')"
           BODY="### Nubenetes Automated Curation has finished.\n\n**Status:** $STATUS\n**Pull Request:** $PR_URL\n\nCheck the [workflow logs]($RUN_URL) for more details. If a visual report was generated, you can download it from the artifacts section of the workflow run."
           
+          gh label create "curation-report" --color "0E8A16" --description "Automated curation run reports" || true
           gh issue create --title "$TITLE" --body "$BODY" --label "curation-report" || echo "Failed to create issue"
 
       - name: Persist Incremental Inventory to Cache