Smarter Week

How to automate it

How to automate “update tickets and write PR descriptions”

Here is the best way to spend less time on this, best first. Each comes with steps you can follow today.

15 min
typically, every day
65%
of the time can be automated
Easy
to set up

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Automation

Let branches and PRs move tickets, and let AI write the PR description

Jira, Linear and GitHub can move tickets automatically when you open, merge or deploy a PR, and Copilot or other AI tools can draft the PR description from the diff.

Typically saves about 60% of the time30 min to set up
  1. 1Connect GitHub or GitLab to Jira or Linear and include the ticket key in the branch name.
  2. 2Turn on automations: PR opened moves to "In review", merged moves to "Done" or "Ready to deploy".
  3. 3Use the PR summary button in GitHub Copilot, or ask your coding agent to write the description.
  4. 4Stop updating ticket status by hand.

Tools: Jira automation · Linear GitHub integration · GitHub Copilot PR summaries

Who does this task

Roles in our library that list this as one of their common tasks. Each guide covers the rest of that role’s week.

Software engineerQA / Test engineer

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