A morning-briefing AI workflow that never acts on its own — and that's why it gets used
A developer built a personal workflow that runs before they wake up each morning. It finds Slack threads still waiting on a reply, summarizes newly opened and
A developer built a personal workflow that runs before they wake up each morning. It finds Slack threads still waiting on a reply, summarizes newly opened and
The key design choice is that the workflow never takes any action on its own: it never sends a message, merges a pull request, or closes anything without explicit approval. It only prepares information and then stops, waiting for the person to approve before anything happens.
That restraint is why, unlike other tools that promised to save time but got ignored, this one actually gets opened every day. The builder now thinks of it less as an and more like a chief of staff, and is asking other agent builders whether their agents actually take real actions today or still keep a human in the loop before anything consequential.