← All IntelClip / OtherBuilding a 'super Dependabot' agentic workflow
From Realtime multiplayer, automation, and you! — Idan Gazit, GitHub · ≈5:19
“So, what I really want is a kind of super Dependabot that's always there, automatically looking in the background at my dependencies and figuring out how to upgrade me, including the code changes, the breaking changes.”
“Um, and because I'm lazy, and I like not doing work, um, I used Copilot, uh, to create an agentic workflow, and there's this magic line up top where I supply effectively a skill saying like, "Hey, create an agentic workflow.”
“Every day I want you to check if there's a new release, look at the change log, look at the docs, come up with a plan for the upgrade, and then create a PR with the thing and here's the links to the docs.”
What’s in it
- Shows how to build a 'super Dependabot' that writes upgrade PRs for you
- Demonstrates prompting Copilot like a junior dev to automate agentic workflows
- Explains a skill-plus-instructions pattern for turning chat prompts into playbooks
Clip transcript
notifies me when my stuff is out of date. Um, but the problem is is that when I do these upgrades, I frequently need to make code changes. So, what I really want is a kind of super Dependabot that's always there, automatically looking in the background at my dependencies and figuring out how to upgrade me, including the code changes, the breaking changes. Um, and because I'm lazy, and I like not doing work, um, I used Copilot, uh, to create an agentic workflow, and there's this magic line up top where I supply effectively a skill saying like, "Hey, create an agentic workflow. Here's a document that tells you everything you need to know about that. And then what comes below that is something a lot like a Slack message that I'd send to a junior developer on my team. Like, every day I want you to check if there's a new release, look at the change log, look at the docs, come up with a plan for the upgrade, and then create a PR with the thing and here's the links to the docs. Right, this is like a message that I would send to somebody on my team, go write a playbook. And when I went and created this, it did go and create a playbook.
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