codyswanngt/setup-automations

Set up Lisa automations: $ARGUMENTS

This skill is a specification, not a script. It tells the current runtime which recurring Lisa automations to create, on what cadence, and with which parameters — and the runtime creates them with its native scheduling mechanism. Do not hand-template schedule files or write shell to create them; invoke the runtime's automation tool with the spec below.

Runtime scheduler (branch on the current runtime)

• Codex → create Codex automations via the native automations mechanism (prefer the automation_update tool over hand-writing ~/.codex/automations/<id>/automation.toml; the TOML is only its backing store). Set the execution environment to local so they run on this workstation. Scope them to a durable project automation checkout, not a transient task worktree: use ${CODEX_HOME:-~/.codex}/worktrees/<project>-automation-main when available, create or refresh that checkout from the project's origin remote if needed, and verify git -C <cwd> rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree --is-bare-repository reports true then false before saving the automation. Do not point recurring automations at hashed scratch worktrees or a checkout whose Git metadata is broken.
• Claude → use /schedule to create local recurring routines, one per automation below.
• Other runtimes → use the runtime's native recurring-task mechanism. If the runtime has none, state that scheduling is unavailable and stop.

Parameters

• auto-start-prds (default false) — passed as prd_ready to the exploratory-prds automation. true → ideated PRDs are created prd-ready (auto-picked-up by PRD intake); false → created as drafts for human review. When true, /lisa:project-ideation still checks the configured PRD queue before writing: existing prd-ready, prd-in-review, prd-blocked, unresolved prd-ticketed, or unresolved source-reader pressure can intentionally turn the automation cycle into a blocked/idle outcome instead of creating another ready PRD.
• auto-start-tickets (default false) — passed as ready to the exploratory-bugs automation. true → filed bug/usability tickets are created build-ready (auto-picked-up by ticket intake); false → created in the backlog for human triage.

Defaults match the underlying skills — nothing auto-starts unless explicitly opted in. The two flags affect only the two exploratory automations.

The automations to create

Each automation runs one cycle of a Lisa command and respects that command's confirmation policy (never ask before running; exit cleanly when the queue is idle; report the cycle summary). Before running the Lisa command, each automation must sync its checkout: fetch the default remote branch and rebase the current automation branch onto it (for the common GitHub case, origin/main). If the checkout is already on the default branch, fast-forward/rebase it to the remote default. If the rebase has conflicts or the working tree is dirty in a way the automation did not create, abort the rebase, leave queue state unchanged, and report the blocker instead of running on stale code.

| Automation | Command it runs | Cadence | |---|---|---| | intake-repair | /lisa:repair-intake <queue> | every 60 minutes | | intake-prd | /lisa:intake <PRD queue> (e.g. github intake_mode=prd) | every 60 minutes | | intake-tickets | /lisa:intake <build queue> (e.g. github intake_mode=build) | every 10 minutes | | exploratory-bugs | /lisa-<stack>:exploratory-qa ready=<auto-start-tickets> | once a day | | exploratory-prds | /lisa:project-ideation prd_ready=<auto-start-prds> | once a day |

For a Codex rrule: every 60 min → FREQ=HOURLY;INTERVAL=1; every 10 min → FREQ=MINUTELY;INTERVAL=10; once a day → FREQ=DAILY;INTERVAL=1.

Exploratory PRD pressure gate. auto-start-prds=true means "create PRDs in the ready PRD lifecycle when the PRD queue has capacity," not "always create a new ready PRD." The exploratory-prds automation uses the same PRD source queue and pressure roles reported by /lisa:queue-status; if pressure exists, the cycle should report the blocking role/ref and the smallest next action, usually /lisa:intake <PRD queue>, without invoking research or writing a PRD.

Queue resolution. Resolve the intake/repair queue from .lisa.config.json — source for the PRD queue, tracker for the build queue (for the common GitHub case these are github intake_mode=prd and github intake_mode=build, matching how the existing Lisa intake automations are written).

Naming + scope (so teardown is precise). Name each automation with the stable prefix lisa-auto-<project>- (e.g. lisa-auto-<project>-intake-tickets), where <project> identifies this repo, and scope each Codex automation to the durable project automation checkout described above. This lets /tear-down-automations find and remove exactly this set and never touch other projects' automations or non-Lisa ones. Use a project identifier stable across runs and distinct from other repos (don't rely on a bare repo basename when it could collide; qualify it, e.g. with the owner).

Idempotent. Re-running this skill updates the existing lisa-auto-<project>-* automations in place (same names) rather than creating duplicates.

Conditions / guards

• exploratory-bugs is created only when the project ships an exploratory-qa command (the expo / rails / harper-fabric stacks). If the project has no exploratory-qa, skip that automation and note it — do not invent a command that doesn't exist.
• If the runtime has no native scheduler, or the intake queues can't be resolved from config, stop and report what's missing rather than guessing.
• For Codex, if the durable checkout cannot be created, fetched, or verified as a non-bare Git work tree, stop and report the checkout problem instead of creating automations that will fail later.

Report

List each automation created or updated (name, the command it runs, cadence, and the resolved auto-start-prds / auto-start-tickets values), plus any automation skipped and why.