Choose a trigger

Choose the event that should start your workflow. Use a manual trigger while you are configuring steps, or select a source for automatic runs.

Available triggers

Choose a manual trigger, GitHub release, RSS/Atom item, interval, new post, published variant, or publishing failure. New-post triggers exclude posts created by automation. Failure triggers preserve recorded failures even if the post is retried before the next check.

GitHub and feeds

GitHub and RSS/Atom sources check every five minutes. Activation records existing items as the starting point; they do not create runs. Future items start runs once each. A feed can only supply items it still retains. Catching up across many GitHub releases may take several checks.

Use an RSS/Atom trigger for one run per new article. To collect several articles on a timer, combine an interval trigger with Read RSS feed, as in the feed digest example.

For private GitHub repositories, choose a saved connection with access to the intended repository.

Intervals

Choose an interval from 5 minutes to 30 days. It starts counting at activation. It does not choose a weekday or clock time. After downtime, it skips missed intervals rather than replaying every missed run.

Activate or pause

Preview your workflow, resolve Needs attention warnings, then select Publish workflow. Publish again after changing its draft to update future automatic runs. Existing runs retain the definition they started with.

Pause new runs stops automatic admission. Existing runs continue. See run controls to cancel remaining steps.