DEVOPS

Agent-Driven Stale Environment Triage to Linear

An agent reviews stale preview and staging environments across GitHub and Vercel, reasons about which are safe to reap versus needs-owner-input, asks ambiguous owners in Slack.

CategoryDevOps
Enginepaperclip
Difficultyadvanced
Triggerschedule
Steps7
Setup~25 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerWeekly schedule fires
  • ActionAgent gathers Vercel + GitHub env stateVercelVercel
  • LogicAgent classifies reap / ask / keep
  • ActionReap clear cases via VercelVercelVercel
  • ActionAsk owners in Slack for ambiguous onesSlack
  • ActionFile Linear issues for leftoversLinearLinear
  • OutputPost triage summary to SlackSlack

What it does

Deploys an agent to triage the long tail of stale environments that simple age rules get wrong. It correlates each environment with its branch, last commit, open-PR status, and recent activity, then classifies it as safe-to-reap, needs-owner-decision, or keep — reaping the clear cases and routing the rest to humans.

When to use it

Use when naive TTL deletion is too risky because some old previews back demos, audits, or long-running branches. The agent's judgment handles edge cases a deterministic filter would mis-delete.

How it works

  1. 1A weekly schedule starts the triage run.
  2. 2The agent gathers candidate environments from Vercel and cross-references branch and PR state in GitHub.
  3. 3It reasons per environment, classifying each as reap, ask, or keep with a rationale.
  4. 4For reap cases, it deletes the Vercel deployment directly.
  5. 5For ask cases, it DMs the owner in Slack to confirm before any action.
  6. 6For unresolved or risky cases, it files a Linear issue with context and a recommendation, then posts a triage summary to Slack.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect VercelDeploys, runtime logs, analytics.
  2. 2
    Connect GitHubRepos, issues, pull requests, actions.
  3. 3
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  4. 4
    Connect LinearIssues, projects, cycles, triage.
  5. 5
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  6. 6
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  7. 7
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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