Automate onboarding for new repository collaborators
New developers often don't get proper onboarding because tracking it manually falls through the cracks. Notis automatically creates a Linear onboarding issue the moment someone joins your repository so onboarding stays on the team's radar.
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 linear issue
Creates a new issue in a specified linear project and team, requiring a title and description, and allowing for optional properties like assignee, state, priority, cycle, and due date.
Why this helps
Onboarding is critical for productivity but gets deprioritized because no one owns it explicitly. New developers often figure things out haphazardly without proper guidance on architecture, workflows, or local setup.
- No onboarding falls through the cracks
- New developers get clear guidance in Linear
- Faster time-to-productivity for new team members
- Consistent onboarding experience
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect GitHub and Linear to Notis.
- 2Create the automation: 'When a new collaborator is added to the repository, create a Linear onboarding checklist for that person with setup steps.'
- 3Select your notification channel.
- 4Choose the trigger: New Repository Collaborator Added.
- 5Test by adding a new collaborator and verify the onboarding issue appears in Linear.
Questions about this workflow
Can I customize the onboarding steps by role?
Yes. Your prompt can specify different checklists for developers, maintainers, or contributors based on their permission level.
Should I auto-assign the onboarding issue to a specific person?
Yes. You can assign it to a team lead or maintainer who owns developer onboarding.
What should I include in the onboarding checklist?
Common items include: install dependencies, run the test suite, read the architecture docs, set up dev environment, review contribution guidelines, etc.
Can I include links to documentation?
Absolutely. Notis can include links to your setup guide, architecture docs, or onboarding wiki.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link GitHub to Linear. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
GitHub triggers
Linear 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.
Create linear attachment
Creates a new attachment and associates it with a specific, existing linear issue.
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.
Create a comment
Creates a new comment on a specified linear issue.
New Branch Created
Triggers when a new branch is created in a GitHub repository. Detects newly created branches. Deleted branches do not fire events.
Create linear issue
Creates a new issue in a specified linear project and team, requiring a title and description, and allowing for optional properties like assignee, state, priority, cycle, and due date.
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.
Get create issue default params
Fetches a linear team's default issue estimate and state, useful for pre-filling new issue forms.
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.
Create a label
Creates a new label in linear for a specified team, used to categorize and organize issues.
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.
Delete issue
Archives an existing linear issue by its id, which is linear's standard way of deleting issues; the operation is idempotent.
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.
Get all teams
Retrieves all teams from the linear workspace without requiring any parameters.
Commit Event
Triggered when a new commit is pushed to a repository.
Download issue attachments
Downloads a specific attachment from a linear issue; the `file name` must include the correct file extension.
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