Starter Recipes

These lightweight recipes give you the “what” and “why” for popular automations without overwhelming you with YAML. Each one links to the matching persona template so you can grab the full workflow when you’re ready.

Looking for a copy‑paste workflow? Head to the Templates directory—these recipes are the on-ramp.

Daily Standup Digest

• Goal: Gather Jira or Linear tickets, summarize progress with Node, and broadcast to Slack by 9am.
• Building blocks: loopcli loop create standup --interactive, HTTP connector for project data, Slack webhook step.
• Upgrade path: Grab the Developer Templates pack for the full YAML and secret placeholders.

Lead Enrichment Sweep

• Goal: Enrich fresh signups or CRM leads with Clearbit/People Data Labs, then sync into Airtable.
• Building blocks: loopcli loop run signup-pull, HTTP connector with --save-response, Airtable API call.
• Upgrade path: The Growth & Marketing Templates bundle includes complete enrichment and routing workflows.

Error Pager & Auto-Triage

• Goal: Poll recent loop executions, detect repeated failures, and fire an incident webhook or ticket.
• Building blocks: loopcli loop executions --json, conditional YAML step for frequency checks, Slack/Linear integration.
• Upgrade path: See the Ops & Reliability Templates for hosted scheduling, retry rules, and runbooks.

Background Watchers

• Goal: Keep queue workers, scrapers, or monitors alive while LoopCLI handles restarts and alerts.
• Building blocks: loopcli loop deploy watcher --schedule "*/10 * * * *" --activate, background step with CLI command, notifications.
• Upgrade path: The Background Operations Templates include full YAML for auto-healing workers and uptime monitors.

Screenshot Regression Sweep

• Goal: Capture front-end screenshots after each change and flag unexpected UI diffs.
• Building blocks: loopcli loop template:screenshot ui-regression --install "npm install" --test "npx playwright test --update-snapshots" (optionally add --report "npx playwright show-report").
• Run it: loopcli loop run ui-regression --verbose and open the generated Playwright report if you enabled one.
• Upgrade path: Pair with background watchers to boot preview servers before taking screenshots, or drop the loop into hosted runs once screenshot storage lands.

Need more?

• Browse the full template catalog for persona-specific starter kits.
• Walk through the Creating Workflows guide to learn how these recipes are structured.
• Jump into the LoopCLI community to share your own recipes or request new ones.