Summarize commits & send client email

Turn recent commits into polished client-facing update emails automatically.

This action uses OpenAI to summarize commit activity and generate an HTML email you can send to clients via SMTP.

Features

• Summarizes recent commit messages with OpenAI
• Rewrites technical changes into client-friendly language
• Generates HTML email output
• Works with reusable workflows across many client repos

Inputs

Name	Required	Default	Description
openai-model	No	gpt-5.4-mini	OpenAI model used to generate the summary
site-label	No	""	Optional site or client label

Outputs

Name	Description
email_body	Generated HTML email body
skip_email	true when email sending should be skipped

Required secrets

• OPENAI_API_KEY
• SMTP_USERNAME
• SMTP_PASSWORD
• CLIENT_EMAIL

Reusable workflow usage

name: Commit Email Summaryon:
push:
branches: [main, master]jobs:
email_summary:
uses: Serbyte-Development/actions/.github/workflows/send_commit_email.yaml@v1with:
openai_model: gpt-5.4-minisite_label: "Acme Dental"secrets:
OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}SMTP_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.SMTP_USERNAME }}SMTP_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.SMTP_PASSWORD }}CLIENT_EMAIL: ${{ secrets.CLIENT_EMAIL }}

Direct action usage

name: Send Client Updateon:
push:
branches: [main, master]jobs:
send_update:
runs-on: ubuntu-lateststeps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Generate summaryid: summarizeuses: Serbyte-Development/actions@v1with:
openai-model: gpt-5.4-minisite-label: Acme Dentalenv:
OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}

Notes

• Reusable workflow inputs use underscores: site_label, openai_model
• Direct action inputs should use hyphens: site-label, openai-model
• The direct action also accepts underscore aliases for backward compatibility
• Add a skip token such as <skip_email> to any commit message to skip the email for that push

License

MIT

Built by Serbyte Development