Make release risk visible in branch protection
Important release notes often contain the clues that a branch needs extra safeguards. Turn those clues into an explicit GitHub requirement.
Trigger
Webhook received
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Action
Add status check contexts
Adds status check contexts (provided in the request body, e.g., `{"contexts": ["new-context"]}`) to a protected branch, requiring these contexts to have been previously reported.
Why this helps
A founder may know a release is risky but forget to update branch protection before work begins.
- Connects release context to engineering safeguards
- Reduces last-minute branch setting changes
- Makes required checks easier to audit
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Rosette text analytics and GitHub to Notis once through the portal.
- 2Create an incoming automation in the portal or ask Notis to apply approved release safeguards.
- 3Tell Notis: Analyze the release text, identify explicitly required status checks, and add those contexts to the named protected GitHub branch.
- 4Select an incoming webhook trigger, choose the run-report channel, and test with one release note.
Questions about this workflow
Will it invent status checks?
The instruction should limit changes to contexts explicitly named or clearly required in the incoming text.
Can it protect every branch?
Name the specific protected branch in the request so the change stays scoped.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Rosette text analytics to GitHub. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Rosette text analytics triggers
GitHub actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Accept a repository invitation
Accepts a pending repository invitation that has been issued to the authenticated user.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
List repositories starred by the authenticated user
Deprecated: lists repositories starred by the authenticated user, including star creation timestamps; use 'list repositories starred by the authenticated user' instead.
List stargazers
Deprecated: lists users who have starred a repository; use `list stargazers` instead.
Star a repository for the authenticated user
Deprecated: stars a repository for the authenticated user; use `star a repository for the authenticated user` instead.
Add email for auth user
Adds one or more email addresses (which will be initially unverified) to the authenticated user's github account; use this to associate new emails, noting an email verified for another account will error, while an existing email for the current user is accepted.
Add app access restrictions
Replaces github app access restrictions for an existing protected branch; requires a json array of app slugs in the request body, where apps must be installed and have 'contents' write permissions.
Add a repository collaborator
Adds a github user as a repository collaborator, or updates their permission if already a collaborator; `permission` applies to organization-owned repositories (personal ones default to 'push' and ignore this field), and an invitation may be created or permissions updated directly.
Add a repository to an app installation
Adds a repository to a github app installation, granting the app access; requires authenticated user to have admin rights for the repository and access to the installation.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Rosette text analytics and GitHub, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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