routines-discover

Apps & Automation

Analyzes the current project to surface high-value Routines use cases across the three trigger types (schedule, API, GitHub events). Usage: /routines-discover

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Routines Use Case Discovery

Analyzes this codebase and surfaces actionable Routine candidates across the three trigger types.

Usage: /routines-discover - no arguments needed. Run it in the root of any project.

What Are Routines

A Routine is an autonomous Claude Code session running on Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure, triggered in three ways:

Trigger	How it fires
Schedule	Recurring cron cadence (min 1 hour)
API	HTTP POST to a per-routine endpoint with bearer token
GitHub events	Repository events: PR opened/merged, push, issue, workflow run, etc.

Each run clones a fresh copy of the GitHub repository, runs a full Claude Code session with configured MCP connectors (Slack, Linear, GitHub, Google Drive…), and can create branches, open PRs, post messages, and call external APIs. No local machine required.

Daily limits: Pro 5/day · Max 15/day · Team/Enterprise 25/day.

Instructions

Step 1: Read the codebase

Before generating any output, silently read:

README.md or CLAUDE.md to understand the project purpose and stack
package.json, Cargo.toml, pyproject.toml, or equivalent for dependencies
.github/workflows/ to understand existing CI/CD automation
Any monitoring, deploy, or ops configuration you find

If MCP connectors are configured in .claude/settings.json, note which external services are connected.

Step 2: Analyze against five dimensions

For each dimension, think concretely about this specific project before writing anything.

1. Scheduled maintenance What recurring work currently requires a human to run manually or remember to do? Think: dependency audits, stale issue/PR triage, test flakiness reports, coverage drift, TODO comment tracking, dead code detection, daily or weekly summaries.

2. Event-driven reactions What should happen automatically when a PR is opened, merged, or closed, but doesn't today because no one gets to it? Think: review checklists, changelog updates, cross-repo sync, Slack notifications with context, label enforcement, docs updates on API changes.

3. Alert and incident response What monitoring signals exist? When something breaks, what is the first thing a developer does? Think: correlating an alert with recent commits, triaging a failing build, drafting a postmortem skeleton, routing an error to the right team.

4. Cross-system sync What drifts today because the sync between two systems is manual? Think: keeping two SDKs in sync, updating a doc site when an API changes, syncing GitHub issues with Linear, keeping a README stats section current.

5. Release and deploy automation What steps happen before or after a deploy that a human runs by hand? Think: smoke tests, release notes, version bumps, stakeholder notifications, go/no-go summaries.

Step 3: Output

For each use case identified, produce a card in this format:

[Name] · schedule / api / github

Trigger: [what fires it: cron expression, which event, which external system]

Input: [what Claude receives: repo state, event payload, alert body]

Output: [what Claude produces: PR opened, message posted, file updated, issue created]

Value: [time saved or risk reduced, be specific]

Blockers: [missing connector, secrets needed, GitHub App required, etc., or "none"]

Sort cards by value-to-effort ratio, highest first.

After all cards, add a Quick Wins section: the two or three use cases that could be set up in under 15 minutes with the current repo and connector configuration.

Example Output (for reference only, do not copy, analyze the actual project)

Nightly stale PR report · schedule

Trigger: Every weekday at 8am

Input: Repo state: all open PRs older than 5 days

Output: Slack message to #engineering with list of stale PRs, assignee, and last activity

Value: Saves ~15min of manual triage each morning, reduces PR rot

Blockers: Requires Slack MCP connector