Workflow Automator

Overview

Workflow Automator reduces manual toil by encoding team workflows as versioned, testable automation scripts. It bridges issue trackers, chat, and CI so the same recipe can run from a pull request, a scheduled job, or a slash command.

Problem

Release checklists, triage handoffs, and status pings are still copy-pasted across tools. When the process lives only in someone’s head — or a wiki page no one updates — quality depends on memory and free time.

I wanted automation that teams can own: recipes in git, reviewable like code, with clear inputs and idempotent steps.

Approach

• Recipes as config — declarative steps with typed inputs and secrets handling
• Adapters for common systems (issues, chat, CI) behind a small interface
• CLI-first for local dry-runs, plus an API for server-side triggers
• Node.js and Python runtimes so teams can extend in the language they already use

Each run produces a structured log so failures are debuggable instead of “it just stopped.”

Highlights

• Dry-run mode that previews side effects before writing anything
• Shared recipe library with version pins per team
• Chat notifications that link back to the run artifact
• Retry policies and circuit breakers for flaky third-party APIs

Outcome

Teams replaced fragile tribal checklists with reviewed automation. Onboarding improved — new hires run the same recipes seniors do — and incident postmortems stopped blaming “someone forgot the manual step.”