Summarize GitHub documentation changes and post them to Slack

When a pull request with documentation changes is merged, AI summarizes what changed and posts it straight to Slack.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken.

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4)

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Starts itA stepOne path onlyResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
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Connects
GitHubAzure OpenAISlack

The problem it solves

Keeping your team's documentation notes current after every code change is easy to forget once a pull request is merged. Engineers end up reading through diffs themselves just to figure out what actually changed in the docs.

Who it fits

DevOps and engineering teams who want documentation updates communicated automatically after every merge.

How it works

  1. A pull request merging into the main branch starts the process
  2. The system checks whether documentation files like the README or docs folder changed
  3. AI writes a short summary of what changed in plain English
  4. The summary is posted to your team's Slack channel with the pull request details
What you get

Doc changes your team hears about right away

Whenever documentation changes ship, your team gets a plain-English summary posted straight to Slack.

What you get

A Slack message summarizing what documentation changed, who changed it, and in which repository.

What you need

A GitHub account, an Azure OpenAI account, and a Slack workspace.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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