Standup Generation

Generate daily standup notes from commits, PRs, and tickets with AI-powered summaries

The standup feature analyzes your git history, pull requests, and project management tickets to generate comprehensive daily standup notes automatically.

Quick Start

Generate a standup for the last day:

devdaily standup

Generate a standup for the last 3 days:

devdaily standup --days 3

How It Works

1. Gather Context

   DevDaily analyzes your recent commits, pull requests, and linked tickets from the specified time period.

2. Extract Metadata

   Collects diff stats, file changes, work categories, and ticket information from your project management tool.

3. AI Generation

   Uses GitHub Copilot CLI to generate a well-structured standup summary with your preferred tone and format.

4. Output

   Displays the standup and optionally copies to clipboard or sends to Slack/Discord.

Command Options

Time Range

Option	Description	Default
-d, --days <number>	Number of days to look back	1

# Last 2 days of work
devdaily standup --days 2

# Last full week
devdaily standup --days 7

Output Formats

Option	Description	Formats
-f, --format <type>	Output format	markdown, slack, plain, json

Markdown

devdaily standup --format markdown

Perfect for copying into GitHub issues or documentation.

Slack

devdaily standup --format slack

Formatted with Slack’s markdown syntax for direct posting.

Plain Text

devdaily standup --format plain

Clean text output without formatting characters.

JSON

devdaily standup --format json

Structured JSON output for integrations and automation.

Tone Control

Option	Description	Tones
--tone <type>	Output tone style	engineering, mixed, business

Tone Examples

• engineering: Technical details, implementation focus
• mixed: Balanced technical and business language (default)
• business: High-level outcomes, stakeholder-friendly

# Technical audience
devdaily standup --tone engineering

# Stakeholder update
devdaily standup --tone business

Filtering

Option	Description
-a, --author <email>	Filter commits by author email
-t, --ticket <id...>	Include specific ticket/issue IDs
--no-tickets	Skip fetching ticket context
--no-prs	Skip fetching PR context

# Filter by author
devdaily standup --author [e-mail]

# Include specific tickets
devdaily standup --ticket PROJ-123 --ticket PROJ-124

# Skip external API calls
devdaily standup --no-tickets --no-prs

Preview and Debug

Option	Description
--preview	Show context and ask for confirmation before generating
--context	Display detailed work context analysis
--raw-context	Output only the raw context block (no AI)
--debug	Show full context and prompt sent to Copilot

# Preview what will be included
devdaily standup --preview

# See detailed analysis
devdaily standup --context

# Debug mode
devdaily standup --debug

Notifications

Configure webhooks first with devdaily init --notifications

Option	Description
--send	Send to configured channels (Slack/Discord)
--slack	Send to Slack only
--discord	Send to Discord only
--test-webhook	Test webhook configuration

# Send to all configured channels
devdaily standup --send

# Send to Slack only
devdaily standup --slack

# Test your webhook setup
devdaily standup --test-webhook

Clipboard and Journal

Option	Description
--no-copy	Don’t copy to clipboard
--no-journal	Skip auto-saving snapshot to journal

# Skip clipboard copy
devdaily standup --no-copy

# Don't save to journal
devdaily standup --no-journal

What Gets Analyzed

The standup feature builds rich context from multiple sources:

Git History

• Commit messages and hashes
• File changes and diff statistics
• Branch information
• Author and timestamp data

Pull Requests

• PR titles and states (open/merged)
• Linked branches
• Associated ticket references

Tickets & Issues

• Ticket IDs from commits and branch names
• Ticket titles and status
• Priority and type information

Work Categories

• Automatically categorized by file paths
• Shows percentage breakdown (frontend, backend, etc.)
• Top changed files with frequency

Output Components

A typical standup includes:

1. Title: “Daily Standup” or “Work Summary (N days)”
2. Summary: AI-generated narrative of your work
3. Stats Bar: Commits, PRs, tickets, changes, primary area
4. Metadata: Days covered, branch name, repository

The stats bar can be disabled in config with output.showStats = false

Example Workflow

# Morning standup - check what you did yesterday
devdaily standup --preview

# Generate and send to Slack
devdaily standup --format slack --send

# Weekly summary for Friday
devdaily standup --days 5 --tone business

# Debug if something seems off
devdaily standup --debug --context

Advanced Usage

Custom Date Ranges

# Last 2 days with specific tickets
devdaily standup --days 2 --ticket PROJ-456

# Engineering format with full context
devdaily standup --tone engineering --context

Integration Workflows

# Generate JSON for automation
devdaily standup --format json > standup.json

# Test notification setup
devdaily standup --test-webhook

# Preview before sending
devdaily standup --preview --send

Troubleshooting

No commits found

If you see “No commits or PRs found”:

• Check you’re in a git repository
• Increase --days to look back further
• Verify commits exist: git log --since="1 day ago"

Webhook test fails

If webhook tests fail:

1. Check your webhook URL in .devdaily.secrets.json
2. For Slack: Visit https://api.slack.com/apps → Incoming Webhooks
3. For Discord: Server Settings → Integrations → Webhooks
4. Re-run: devdaily init --notifications

Copilot CLI not found

Install GitHub Copilot CLI:

gh extension install github/gh-copilot

Configuration

Customize standup behavior in your .devdaily.json:

{
  "standup": {
    "defaultDays": 1
  },
  "output": {
    "format": "markdown",
    "showStats": true,
    "copyToClipboard": true
  },
  "git": {
    "defaultBranch": "main"
  }
}

Related Commands

• devdaily week - Generate weekly summaries
• devdaily pr - Generate PR descriptions
• devdaily context - Recover work context