Cron workflows are workflows that are triggered at specified intervals. You define a cron pattern and instructions and then Ellipsis will be triggered according the the cron pattern.
Cron Workflows are natural language instructions to our bot
It will take the actions you’ve configured it to take. Here is the documentation for the cron pattern language.
Here are examples of what you can build with cron workflows. Copy/paste these examples to get started building your own workflows.1. Post a daily report to Slack
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Every business day at 9am, post a message to the #engineering channel with a summary of all open pull requests and their status.
2. List stale pull requests
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Every Monday at 10am, post a message to the #engineering channel with a list of pull requests that have been open for more than 3 days without activity.
3. Validate documentation links
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Every Sunday at midnight, check all links in our documentation repository and create an issue if any broken links are found.
4. Weekly team summary
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Every Friday at 4pm, post a message to the #team channel summarizing all the work completed by the team this week, including merged PRs, closed issues, and new issues created.