Building an AI-Powered Guest Automation with the Copilot SDK

Building an AI-Powered Guest Automation with the Copilot SDK Every week on Open Source Friday, we host open source maintainers on our livestream. When a guest gets confirmed, someone on the team labels the issue to kick off an action that writes a welcome message and shares prep instructions. From there, we manually create event posts and design a thumbnail (if you can call my lack of design sensibility that). The problem? Starting from scratch every time meant we'd fall back to the same template: "You're officially scheduled for Open Source Friday! The stream starts at 1:00 PM ET. Please join at 12:45 PM ET for prep and tech checks." It worked. But it was boring, and we had better material sitting right there in the issue. Each guest submission included their project details, background, and what they wanted to talk about. We just weren't using it. So I built an automation that reads their submission and writes a personalized draft. When a guest mentions they're excited to talk about