standups
atom runs your daily standup without forms, threads, or another bot subscription. participants reply to a dm, and a live board in your channel fills in as updates land.
the daily cycle
- the nudge. at the time you set, every participant who has not submitted gets a dm: "standup time. what are you working on today? reply here and i'll log your update."
- the reply. they answer in plain words, as one message or several through the day. atom understands free-form text and splits multi-item updates into clean bullets. same-day messages append.
- the ack. a checkmark reaction and a short confirmation, so nobody wonders whether it counted.
- the board. at post time, one message appears in the standup channel with everyone's updates. it keeps editing itself in place as later updates arrive. submitters are mentioned on their entries; the "waiting on" list stays unpinged and shrinks live.
greetings and questions sent to the bot are answered, not logged. only real updates reach the board.
configure from slack
run /atom standup in the channel where the board should live. pick participants with the user picker, set the nudge time, board time, timezone, and days. participation is opt-in: nobody is enrolled automatically. pause any time with /atom standup off; config and history are kept.
configure from the terminal
atom standup enable --channel #standup --nudge 09:30 --post 11:00 --tz America/New_York
atom standup add-user teammate-github-login
atom standup status
atom standup disable
check the setup
ask @atom standup config in any channel to see the schedule, board channel, and participants.