Onboard new collaborators without forgetting
When someone is added as a collaborator to your GitHub repository, Notis creates a calendar event to remind you to do the onboarding conversation.
Trigger
New Repository Collaborator Added
Triggers when a new collaborator is added to a GitHub repository. Monitors the full list of collaborators on a repository and fires an event for each newly added collaborator. The payload includes the collaborator's GitHub username, account ID, profile URL, avatar URL, permission flags (pull, triage, push, maintain, admin), and assigned role name.
Action
Create Event
Creates an event on a google calendar, needing rfc3339 utc start/end times (end after start) and write access to the calendar. by default, adds the organizer as an attendee unless exclude organizer is set to true.
Why this helps
A new teammate gets access to the repo but there's no automatic trigger to onboard them. Days pass. They're confused about code structure, don't know how to run tests, miss important patterns. You realize weeks later they never got a proper introduction. Productivity suffers and they feel lost.
- Ensure every new team member gets onboarded promptly instead of falling through the cracks
- Reduce ramp-up time for new developers by scheduling structured introduction conversations
- Keep onboarding from being an ad-hoc afterthought by making it a calendar commitment
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect GitHub and Google Calendar to Notis
- 2Ask Notis: 'When a new collaborator is added to a repository, add an onboarding meeting to my calendar' or create it in Automations
- 3Optionally filter to specific repositories if you only want this for certain projects
- 4Choose your notification channel and consider inviting your lead or team lead to co-host
- 5Add a test collaborator and confirm the onboarding event appears on your calendar
Questions about this workflow
Can I specify what role the collaborator needs to be for this to trigger?
Yes. Tell Notis to only trigger for certain permission levels (maintainer, contributor, etc.).
Should I invite the new collaborator to the event?
You can, if you want to give them notice. Or keep it as a reminder for you to reach out separately.
Can I attach documentation or a checklist to the event?
Yes. Tell Notis to include links to your onboarding docs in the calendar event description.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link GitHub to Google Calendar. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
GitHub triggers
Google Calendar actions
New Workflow Artifact Created
Triggers when a new workflow artifact is created in a GitHub repository. Monitors for newly created GitHub Actions workflow artifacts. Optionally filters by artifact name to restrict monitoring to specific artifacts.
Insert Calendar into List
Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list.
Branch Changed
Triggers when a GitHub branch changes. Monitors a specific branch for: - New commits pushed (head commit SHA changes) - Protection status toggled (branch becomes protected or unprotected) - Protection settings changed, including: required status checks and their enforcement level, admin enforcement, required pull request reviews (dismiss stale reviews, code owner reviews, approving review count, last push approval), required linear history, force push allowance, deletion allowance, conversation resolution, branch locking, and fork syncing.
Update Calendar List Entry
Updates an existing entry on the user\'s calendar list.
New Branch Created
Triggers when a new branch is created in a GitHub repository. Detects newly created branches. Deleted branches do not fire events.
Delete Calendar
Deletes a secondary calendar. use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars.
Check Run Status / Conclusion Changed
Triggers when a specific GitHub check run changes its status or conclusion. Monitors a single check run for changes to: status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.), conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required), started_at, and completed_at.
Update Calendar
Updates metadata for a calendar.
Check Suite Status / Conclusion Changed
Triggers when a GitHub check suite changes its status or conclusion for a given ref. Monitors all check suites associated with a git reference (branch, tag, or commit SHA) for changes to status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.) and conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required, startup_failure, stale). Optionally filters by GitHub App ID.
Clear Calendar
Clears a primary calendar. this operation deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account.
New Code Scanning Alert Created
Triggers when a new code scanning alert is created in a repository. Fires an event for each newly created code scanning alert detected in the configured repository. Alerts can be filtered by Git reference, scanning tool, state, and severity. The payload includes the alert number, rule details, tool information, state, severity, and the location of the most recent instance.
Create Event
Creates an event on a google calendar, needing rfc3339 utc start/end times (end after start) and write access to the calendar. by default, adds the organizer as an attendee unless exclude organizer is set to true.
New Repository Collaborator Added
Triggers when a new collaborator is added to a GitHub repository. Monitors the full list of collaborators on a repository and fires an event for each newly added collaborator. The payload includes the collaborator's GitHub username, account ID, profile URL, avatar URL, permission flags (pull, triage, push, maintain, admin), and assigned role name.
Delete event
Deletes a specified event by `event id` from a google calendar (`calendar id`); this action is idempotent and raises a 404 error if the event is not found.
Commit Event
Triggered when a new commit is pushed to a repository.
Create a calendar
Creates a new, empty google calendar with the specified title (summary).
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