Automations - Roomote

Automations let Roomote work without waiting for a teammate to write a new prompt every time. Use them after your first environment, chat connection, and source-control connection are working well. Automations are most useful when your team already trusts the normal task review flow and wants Roomote to keep an eye on repeated work.

Before you turn them on

Make sure the basics are in place:

source control is connected for PR and repository automations
Slack is connected for automations that post updates to channels
Roomote has at least one healthy environment for the repositories it should work in
the team knows where automation output will appear

Automations can create useful work quickly. Start with one or two that map to a real team habit, tell the team where output will appear, then expand once the signal is good.

Pull request automations

These automations react to pull requests and repository state.

Automation	What it does	Good first use
Review Code	Reviews pull requests automatically or on demand	Add an extra reviewer for regressions, risky changes, and missed tests
Resolve PR Conflicts	Looks for merge conflicts and helps fix them on open PRs	Keep long-running branches from getting stuck

For Review Code, decide whether Roomote should review new commits automatically and whether draft pull requests should be included. If your team treats drafts as active collaboration, include them. If drafts are noisy or half-formed, keep them out until they are ready. For Resolve PR Conflicts, pick a schedule, PR age cap, and label. The label is the team-controlled opt-in for scheduled scans. Make sure the label exists in your repositories, add it to PRs where you want Roomote to attempt conflict resolution, and remove it when a human should handle the conflict instead. Roomote only tries this on labeled PRs that are still active, and it skips PRs older than the age cap you set.

Slack automations

The Slack section starts with Auto-respond to Slack channels. Use it to let Roomote start a task from new top-level messages in selected Slack channels, even when nobody mentions Roomote directly. You can add multiple channels, and each one can include its own optional instructions. Good first examples:

#ask-engineering
#bugs
#support-inbound
#ops-requests

Invite Roomote to every auto-respond channel before you save it. Start with a low-risk channel first. Auto-response can feel noisy if the channel mixes casual discussion with requests that should become Roomote tasks.

Manager automations

The manager section controls the shared Manager Channel plus recurring manager-facing updates and suggestions.

Automation	What it posts	Typical cadence
Automation output	The shared Manager Channel destination	Configure once
Weekly Manager Stats	A weekly summary of Roomote activity	Weekly
Triage Sentry Issues	Prioritized Sentry follow-up work	Daily or weekly
Triage Dependabot Alerts	Suggested follow-up tasks for open dependency alerts	Daily or weekly
Security Auditor	Security follow-up work from recently merged PRs	Every hour, every 6 hours, daily, or weekly
Code Quality Auditor	Code quality follow-up work from recently merged PRs	Every hour, every 6 hours, daily, or weekly
Suggest Ideas	Useful coding work Roomote thinks the team could do	Daily or weekly
CI Failure Triage	Automatic repro-and-fix tasks for failing default-branch CI runs	Immediate via webhook
Summarize Merged PRs	A digest of recently merged pull requests	Daily or weekly

Set Automation output first. This is the shared Slack channel for manager-facing posts, suggestions, summaries, and setup alerts. Invite Roomote to that channel before you save it. Code Quality Auditor inspects recently merged PR diffs and only posts high-confidence maintainability issues worth a real follow-up task. It is meant to catch confusing abstractions, file bloat, brittle branching, and other quality regressions, not correctness bugs or security issues. Triage Sentry Issues scans connected Sentry projects and posts the issues that look worth engineering follow-up. Leave project slugs blank to scan everything available to the configured token, or scope it to specific projects. Triage Dependabot Alerts scans open GitHub Dependabot alerts across your active repositories and suggests tightly scoped follow-up update tasks. It does not open PRs directly from the scheduled scan. Security Auditor reviews recently merged PRs for concrete security issues and secure-by-default gaps that are worth a real follow-up task. CI Failure Triage reacts the moment a CI workflow run fails on a repository’s default branch. When a failure persists (it is not already fixed by a newer run and is not a one-off flake), Roomote starts a fix task that reproduces the failing job inside the repository’s configured environment, finds the root cause, opens a PR with the fix, and posts one summary to the Manager Channel when it finishes. Only repositories that belong to a configured Roomote environment are triaged.

Add instructions to reduce noise

Several automations include an Additional instructions field. Use it to tell Roomote what good signal looks like for your team. Helpful instructions are specific:

Prioritize changes that reduce repeated support escalations.
Skip suggestions that require product approval before engineering can start.
For merged PR summaries, call out customer-visible changes first.

Avoid broad instructions such as “only send good ideas.” Roomote needs to know what your team considers useful, risky, or out of scope.

Run an automation now

Some automations include a Run now action. Use it when you want to test the current configuration before waiting for the next scheduled run. After you run one, check the destination channel and the task view. A healthy automation should leave enough context for a reviewer to understand why Roomote posted and what should happen next. If the automation creates a task, review the same evidence you would review for manual work: transcript, logs, diffs, previews, artifacts, and final summary.

Use Slack workflows for custom triggers

For workflows that are specific to your team, use Slack’s own workflow builder and end the workflow with a Roomote mention. Good custom triggers include:

send new bug-channel posts to Roomote for triage
turn operational requests from another system into Roomote tasks
ask Roomote to gather diagnostics when a support escalation arrives

This keeps custom routing in Slack while still letting Roomote run a normal, reviewable task.

Possible issues

Nothing posts to Slack. Check that Slack is connected, Roomote is invited to the Manager Channel, and the automation is enabled.
Suggestions are too broad. Add narrower instructions about what to prioritize and what to ignore.
Review Code comments on too much. Turn off draft PR review or adjust when automatic reviews run.
Conflict resolution starts on the wrong PRs. Use the configured label as the opt-in boundary and remove it from PRs that need human handling.

​Before you turn them on

​Pull request automations

​Slack automations

​Manager automations

​Add instructions to reduce noise

​Run an automation now

​Use Slack workflows for custom triggers

​Possible issues