A curated list of automations for codex coding assistant tasks that can be scheduled or triggered to automate your development workflow.
Contents
Built-in Automations
These are the default automations that come with Codex.
Code Quality
- Daily Bug Scan - Scan recent commits for likely bugs and propose minimal fixes.
- Test Gap Detection - Identify untested paths from recent changes; add focused tests.
CI/CD
- Nightly CI Report - Summarize CI failures and flaky tests; suggest top fixes.
- CI Monitor - Check CI failures; group by likely root cause and suggest minimal fixes.
- Pre-release Check - Before tagging, verify changelog, migrations, feature flags, and tests.
Team Communication
- Standup Summary - Summarize yesterday's git activity for standup.
- Weekly PR Summary - Summarize last week's PRs by teammate and theme; highlight risks.
- Weekly Engineering Summary - Synthesize this week's PRs, rollouts, incidents, and reviews.
Release Management
- Weekly Release Notes - Draft weekly release notes from merged PRs.
- Update Changelog - Update the changelog with this week's highlights and key PR links.
Dependency Management
- Dependency and SDK Drift - Detect dependency and SDK drift and propose a minimal alignment plan.
- Dependency Sweep - Scan outdated dependencies; propose safe upgrades with minimal changes.
Performance
- Performance Regression Watch - Compare recent changes to benchmarks or traces and flag regressions early.
- Performance Audit - Audit performance regressions and propose highest-leverage fixes.
Project Management
- Issue Triage - Triage new issues; suggest owner, priority, and labels.
- Update AGENTS.md - Update AGENTS.md with newly discovered workflows and commands.
Learning & Growth
- Skill Progression Map - From recent PRs and reviews, suggest next skills to deepen.
Fun
- Daily Classic Game - Create a small classic game with minimal scope.
Community Automations
Automations contributed by the community.
Code Quality
- Code Smell Detector - Analyze recent changes for code smells and anti-patterns.
- Dead Code Hunter - Identify potentially unused code in recently modified files.
Team Communication
- Weekly Changelog Generator - Generate a human-readable changelog from merged PRs.
- PR Review Reminder - Identify PRs awaiting review for more than 48 hours.
Documentation
- README Freshness Check - Verify that README and core docs are still accurate.
- API Documentation Drift - Detect mismatches between API docs and implementations.
- New Contributor Guide Validator - Ensure onboarding docs work with current repo state.
Dependency Management
- Dependency Update Digest - Summarize available dependency updates and changelogs.
- License Compliance Check - Scan dependencies for license compatibility issues.
- Unused Dependency Finder - Identify declared but unused dependencies.
Security
- Secret Scanner - Scan recent commits for accidentally committed secrets.
- Security Advisory Monitor - Check dependencies for new CVEs or security advisories.
- Permission Audit - Review repository access permissions and flag anomalies.
Testing
- Test Coverage Trend - Track test coverage changes and flag declining areas.
- Flaky Test Detector - Identify tests with inconsistent pass/fail results.
- Test Gap Analyzer - Find recently modified code paths lacking test coverage.
Release Management
- Release Notes Drafter - Draft release notes from commits since the last tag.
- Version Bump Advisor - Recommend semantic version bump based on changes.
- Migration Script Validator - Verify migration scripts are reversible and consistent.
Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Please read the contribution guidelines before submitting a pull request.
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License.