n8n Daily Engineering Digest to Slack: Jira + GitHub + OpenAI

Get a Daily Jira + GitHub Engineering Digest in Slack—automatically

This n8n workflow runs every weekday at 9:00 AM to pull the last 24 hours of Jira updates and GitHub pull request activity, summarizes it with OpenAI, and posts a structured Block Kit digest to Slack. Optionally, it also logs the posting outcome to Google Sheets.

What this workflow does

• Schedules on weekdays at 9:00 AM using an n8n schedule trigger.
• Summarizes Jira movement by pulling issues updated in the last 24 hours and identifying “In Progress” items that haven’t been updated past your configured stale threshold.
• Reviews GitHub PR signals by splitting your configured GitHub repository list, fetching recent pull requests, and searching for open PRs with no reviews.
• Normalizes and merges results from Jira and GitHub into a single digest payload.
• Generates a strict-JSON summary with OpenAI Chat Completions, covering what moved, what shipped, what’s blocked, what needs review, and sprint health.
• Posts to Slack by building a Slack Block Kit message with ticket/PR links and optional @mentions via a Jira/GitHub-to-Slack user map.
• Logs to Google Sheets (optional) by appending a row with posting result details to your configured spreadsheet tab.

Use cases

• Engineering leads who want a daily “state of delivery” without manual report writing.
• SaaS operators using Jira + GitHub who need consistent sprint health visibility.
• Teams monitoring stalled work (“In Progress” stale issues) and PRs needing review.

Technical details

• Integrations/credentials: Jira Software Cloud, GitHub, OpenAI, Slack, and optional Google Sheets.
• Key n8n nodes referenced: if, set, code, jira, no op, and merge.
• Setup includes configuring Jira base URL + project key, GitHub repositories list, stale thresholds, Slack channel, and the OpenAI model.