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Create automations from /automate or a template1 / 2

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Review the automation draft

Create one review-comment draft with /automate, inspect every generated field and test its action and no-action cases.

Step 1 of 2

In a local Agent session, run /automate for inline review comments on acme/web. Open the generated configuration and confirm PR review comment, acme/web, no MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. tool and conditional draft pull request behavior. Limit changes to reproducible requests inside packages/ui, require pnpm test ui and stop on questions, out-of-scope requests or failed reproductions. Inspect one comment on each path before widening the automation.

Start from a Popular automation template

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  1. Popular templates already carry a trigger shape — Scheduled into Send Slack. Start from one that matches the manual run you already trust, then tighten the prompt.
Popular templates already carry Scheduled → Send Slack — start from one that matches a manual run you trust.

Practice next: Pick one Popular template and rewrite its prompt against a workflow you already ran by hand.

Simulated Cursor 3.12 (macOS, light) — beta educational reconstruction, not the real product.