n8n-automated-standup/README.md

n8n Automated Standup

An n8n workflow that gathers your GitHub commits and Jira tickets from the past 24 hours, sends them to Claude, and emails you a conversational summary you can read aloud at standup.

Why

The five minutes before standup cost more than the meeting itself—scrolling through commit history, clicking through Jira, trying to remember what I was doing on Friday. This workflow does the archaeology for me.

I wrote about the human side of this in The Hidden Cost of Standup Prep and the technical details in Automating Standup Prep with n8n.

What it does

Every morning at 8 AM:

1. Pulls commits from GitHub (last 24 hours)
2. Pulls ticket updates from Jira (last 24 hours)
3. Merges them together
4. Sends them to Claude with a prompt asking for a natural summary
5. Emails the result

Setup

1. Import Jira and Github Automated Standup.json into n8n
2. Configure credentials for GitHub, Jira, Anthropic (Claude), and your email provider
3. Adjust the schedule trigger if 8 AM doesn't work for you
4. Update the Claude prompt if you want a different tone or format

Credits

Inspired by Leon van Zyl's tutorial on automated standups.

License

Apache 2.0