Free‑Tier CI Triage: One Small Bot, End to End

Description and use

A zero‑cost bot that daily summarizes CI failures, enabling maintainers to act quickly.

Problem

CI failures were visible but never read; maintainers lacked a concise daily summary within a zero‑budget constraint.

Outcome

Zero‑cost daily CI failure digest that enables maintainers to act within two minutes.

Workflow

• 1. Schedule a cron job on MonkeyCode’s free server. 2. Fetch the last 24 h of failed GitHub Actions runs via the GitHub API. 3. Send the run data to a free OpenAI‑compatible chat endpoint. 4. Receive a concise summary grouped by likely root cause. 5. Output the summary as a markdown report (printed or posted).

Evidence

The monthly cost is zero.

Source

The bot is one Python file. It does three things: fetch failed workflow runs from the GitHub API, send them to an OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint, and print a report.

Source