Run a scheduled personal assistant that builds a task dashboard
A Rippling engineer's Cursor cron agent runs every two hours, reading Slack notes, GitHub PRs, Jira issues and mentions, deduplicating them and posting a dashboard.
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- What they did
- Abhishek Singh at Rippling drops meeting notes, action items, TODOs and Loom links into a Slack channel during the day. A Cursor Automations cron agent runs every two hours in a cloud sandbox. It reads that channel along with his GitHub PRs, Jira issues and Slack mentions, deduplicates across them, and posts a dashboard.
- How it went
- The source gives no metrics for this assistant. It says Singh went on to build other automations, such as Slack-to-Jira issue creation and Confluence summaries, and that the most useful ones get shared across the team.
Try it yourself with Cursor
Set up a scheduled agent that runs every [2 hours] and reads my [Slack notes / GitHub PRs / Jira or Linear issues / mentions]. Merge duplicates into one prioritized task dashboard at [file or page location] grouped by [urgency / project]. Finish after one successful test run and show me the result, and do not post, comment or change anything in those tools without asking.
Source: cursor.com · Undated
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