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ai-standup

Productivity
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Use when preparing daily standup notes or summarizing recent PR and commit activity for team updates.

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Standup

Purpose

Generate standup notes from actual PR and commit activity. Produces concise, copy-paste-ready summaries grouped by status. Eliminates manual standup preparation.

Trigger

  • Command: /ai-standup
  • Context: preparing for daily standup, team sync, or async status update.

When to Use

  • Before daily standup meetings
  • Async status updates for Slack/Teams channels
  • End-of-day summaries
  • Handoff notes between sessions

When NOT to Use

  • Sprint-level summaries -- use /ai-sprint retro
  • Incident timelines -- use /ai-postmortem

Pre-conditions (MANDATORY)

  1. Read .ai-engineering/manifest.yml — work_items section.
  2. Use the active provider to gather work item data:
    • GitHub: gh issue list --label <team_label> --state all --json ...
    • Azure DevOps: az boards query --wiql "..." filtered by area_path and current iteration
  3. Include work item status in standup notes when available.

Procedure

  1. Determine lookback -- default: 1 working day. Override with --days N. Skip weekends unless --days explicitly covers them.

  2. Collect activity -- scan the following sources: a. git log --since="N days ago" --author="<name>" -- local commits b. gh pr list --author="<name>" --state=all --json title,url,state,updatedAt -- PRs c. Active spec tasks from .ai-engineering/specs/spec.md and specs/plan.md -- current work

  3. Classify items into three groups:

    GroupCriteria
    ShippedMerged PRs, completed spec tasks
    In ProgressOpen PRs, branches with recent commits, active spec tasks
    BlockedPRs with review requests pending 24h+, tasks marked blocked

  4. Format output -- markdown to stdout:

## Standup — YYYY-MM-DD

### Shipped
- Merged PR #123: Add secret scanning to commit hook [link]
- spec-054: Task 2.1 -- hook installation complete

### In Progress
- PR #125: Telemetry event schema (awaiting review) [link]
- spec-054: Task 3.2 -- guard event integration

### Blocked
- PR #120: Dependency update blocked on upstream release
  1. Author resolution -- if --author not specified, detect from git config user.name or gh api user.

Arguments

ArgumentDefaultDescription
--days N1Lookback period in working days
--author <name>current userFilter by author name or GitHub handle

Quick Reference

/ai-standup                   # today's standup
/ai-standup --days 3          # last 3 days (covers a long weekend)
/ai-standup --author @alice   # standup for a specific team member

Output

  • Markdown to stdout (not saved to file)
  • Designed for copy-paste into Slack, Teams, or standup tools
  • Each item includes a link when available

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