Summarize commits & send client email
Turn recent commits into polished client-facing update emails automatically.
This action uses OpenAI to summarize commit activity and generate an HTML email you can send to clients via SMTP.
- Summarizes recent commit messages with OpenAI
- Rewrites technical changes into client-friendly language
- Generates HTML email output
- Works with reusable workflows across many client repos
| Name |
Required |
Default |
Description |
| openai-model |
No |
gpt-5.4-mini |
OpenAI model used to generate the summary |
| site-label |
No |
"" |
Optional site or client label |
| Name |
Description |
| email_body |
Generated HTML email body |
| skip_email |
true when email sending should be skipped |
- OPENAI_API_KEY
- SMTP_USERNAME
- SMTP_PASSWORD
- CLIENT_EMAIL
name: Commit Email Summary
on:
push:
branches: [main, master]
jobs:
email_summary:
uses: Serbyte-Development/actions/.github/workflows/send_commit_email.yaml@v1
with:
openai_model: gpt-5.4-mini
site_label: "Acme Dental"
secrets:
OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
SMTP_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.SMTP_USERNAME }}
SMTP_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.SMTP_PASSWORD }}
CLIENT_EMAIL: ${{ secrets.CLIENT_EMAIL }}name: Send Client Update
on:
push:
branches: [main, master]
jobs:
send_update:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Generate summary
id: summarize
uses: Serbyte-Development/actions@v1
with:
openai-model: gpt-5.4-mini
site-label: Acme Dental
env:
OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
- Reusable workflow inputs use underscores: site_label, openai_model
- Direct action inputs should use hyphens: site-label, openai-model
- The direct action also accepts underscore aliases for backward compatibility
- Add a skip token such as <skip_email> to any commit message to skip the email for that push
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