GitHub Copilot/new-automation

Draft an automation

Opens the new-automation dialog with the name, schedule and prompt filled in.

macos · windows · linux · sign-in required · updated 2026-07-13

Format

ghapp://automations/new?name={name}&trigger={trigger}&time={time}&day={day}&prompt={prompt}

Try it

ghapp://automations/new?name=Weekly%20triage&trigger=weekly&time=09%3A00&day=1&prompt=Summarize%20new%20issuesOpen

What you supply

{name}optional

What to call the automation.

{trigger}optional

How often it runs.

One of manual, hourly, daily, weekly

{time}optional

Local time of day, 24-hour HH:mm.

Encode the colon. Read for daily and weekly triggers, ignored otherwise.

{day}optional

Day of the week, 0–6 with 0 as Sunday, or a weekday name.

For weekly triggers. schedule_day works as an alias.

{prompt}optional

What the automation should do each time it runs.

URL-encode it. It ends up in a URL, so keep secrets out of it.

The link opens the dialog. It does not create the automation — that still takes a person looking at it and clicking through.

Bad values are dropped rather than rejected, so an automation can arrive scheduled differently from how the link read. Check the dialog before confirming.

Both time and day take more than one value: time=08:00,13:00 for a daily automation that runs twice (the minutes have to match), and schedule_day=1,3,5 for Monday, Wednesday, Friday.