# CI/CD recipes > Drop-in recipes to notify Dailybot from any pipeline. Same pattern the Dailybot release workflows use: one curl call against the public REST API — no runtime to install, no CLI to keep in sync. Language: en Canonical: https://www.dailybot.com/developers/cli-ci-cd Markdown: send header `Accept: text/markdown` on any URL to receive Markdown instead of HTML. Last Updated: 2026-07-02 --- Every CI vendor supports environment variables and secrets — that is all you need to talk to Dailybot. The recipes below use plain `curl` + `jq` against the public REST API, the same pattern [Dailybot's own release workflows](https://github.com/DailybotHQ) use. Prefer a CLI? Skip to [the CLI section](#cli).

Which endpoint?

Two endpoints cover the vast majority of CI/CD use cases. Both accept an `X-API-KEY` header and return JSON. | Method | Path | When | |--------|------|------| | POST | [`/v1/send-message/`](/developers/api/messaging) | Notify a channel, user, or team on your connected chat platform (Slack, MS Teams, Discord, Google Chat). Best for deploy started / deploy live / build failed alerts. | | POST | [`/v1/agent-reports/`](/developers/api/agents) | File a standup-style progress entry as an agent identity. Best for nightly cron summaries, per-deploy reports, and any recurring "what happened today" update. |

API-first recipes

Every snippet is non-blocking: if Dailybot is briefly unreachable, the pipeline keeps going. Timeouts (`--connect-timeout 10 --max-time 30`) match the pattern in this website's own workflows. ### GitHub Actions — notify a channel ```yaml # .github/workflows/notify-deploy.yml name: Notify deploy on: workflow_run: workflows: ["release"] types: [completed] jobs: notify: runs-on: ubuntu-latest timeout-minutes: 3 steps: - name: Install jq run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y jq - name: Post to Dailybot env: # Channel UUID from your Dailybot workspace. DAILYBOT_CHANNEL: ${{ vars.DAILYBOT_DEPLOY_CHANNEL }} run: | MESSAGE=$'✅ *Deploy live*\n> commit: `'"${GITHUB_SHA:0:8}"'`\n> actor: '"$GITHUB_ACTOR" BODY=$(jq -n --arg msg "$MESSAGE" --arg ch "$DAILYBOT_CHANNEL" \ '{message: $msg, target_channels: [$ch]}') curl --fail --show-error --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 30 \ 'https://api.dailybot.com/v1/send-message/' \ -H "X-API-KEY: ${{ secrets.DAILYBOT_API_KEY }}" \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d "$BODY" \ || echo "Dailybot notification failed; continuing." ``` ### GitHub Actions — file an agent report ```yaml # .github/workflows/nightly-report.yml name: Nightly agent report on: schedule: - cron: "0 23 * * *" jobs: report: runs-on: ubuntu-latest timeout-minutes: 3 steps: - name: Install jq run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y jq - name: File progress report run: | BODY=$(jq -n \ --arg summary "Nightly batch completed on ${GITHUB_REF_NAME}." \ --argjson milestone false \ '{summary: $summary, milestone: $milestone}') curl --fail --show-error --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 30 \ 'https://api.dailybot.com/v1/agent-reports/' \ -H "X-API-KEY: ${{ secrets.DAILYBOT_API_KEY }}" \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d "$BODY" \ || echo "Agent report failed; continuing." ``` ### GitLab CI ```yaml # .gitlab-ci.yml (fragment) notify-dailybot: stage: notify image: alpine:3 before_script: - apk add --no-cache curl jq variables: DAILYBOT_CHANNEL: "$DAILYBOT_DEPLOY_CHANNEL" # UUID, set as a masked CI variable script: | BODY=$(jq -n \ --arg msg "Pipeline ${CI_PIPELINE_ID} succeeded on ${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}." \ --arg ch "$DAILYBOT_CHANNEL" \ '{message: $msg, target_channels: [$ch]}') curl --fail --show-error --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 30 \ 'https://api.dailybot.com/v1/send-message/' \ -H "X-API-KEY: $DAILYBOT_API_KEY" \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d "$BODY" \ || echo "Dailybot notification failed; continuing." only: - main ``` ### CircleCI ```yaml # .circleci/config.yml (fragment) version: 2.1 jobs: notify-dailybot: docker: - image: cimg/base:current steps: - run: name: Post to Dailybot command: | BODY=$(jq -n \ --arg msg "Job ${CIRCLE_JOB} passed on ${CIRCLE_BRANCH}." \ --arg ch "$DAILYBOT_DEPLOY_CHANNEL" \ '{message: $msg, target_channels: [$ch]}') curl --fail --show-error --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 30 \ 'https://api.dailybot.com/v1/send-message/' \ -H "X-API-KEY: $DAILYBOT_API_KEY" \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d "$BODY" \ || echo "Dailybot notification failed; continuing." workflows: build-and-notify: jobs: - notify-dailybot: context: dailybot-org # store DAILYBOT_API_KEY + DAILYBOT_DEPLOY_CHANNEL here ``` ### Bash / cron ```bash # /etc/cron.d/dailybot-nightly-report # Every day at 23:00 UTC, file a summary standup. SHELL=/bin/bash # Source DAILYBOT_API_KEY from your host secret store; never hard-code it here. 0 23 * * * app source /etc/dailybot.env && curl --fail --show-error --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 30 \ 'https://api.dailybot.com/v1/agent-reports/' \ -H "X-API-KEY: $DAILYBOT_API_KEY" \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{"summary":"Nightly batch completed.","milestone":false}' \ >> /var/log/dailybot-report.log 2>&1 ``` ### Kubernetes CronJob ```yaml # k8s/dailybot-nightly.yaml (fragment) apiVersion: batch/v1 kind: CronJob metadata: name: dailybot-nightly-report spec: schedule: "0 23 * * *" jobTemplate: spec: template: spec: restartPolicy: OnFailure containers: - name: dailybot image: curlimages/curl:8.10.1 envFrom: - secretRef: { name: dailybot-secrets } # exposes DAILYBOT_API_KEY command: ["sh", "-c"] args: - | curl --fail --show-error --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 30 \ 'https://api.dailybot.com/v1/agent-reports/' \ -H "X-API-KEY: $DAILYBOT_API_KEY" \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{"summary":"Nightly maintenance ran cleanly.","milestone":false}' ```

Prefer a CLI?

The Dailybot CLI is a Python package published on PyPI: [pypi.org/project/dailybot-cli](https://pypi.org/project/dailybot-cli/). It wraps the same endpoints — `dailybot chat send …` calls `/v1/send-message/`, `dailybot agent update …` calls `/v1/agent-reports/`. For CI/CD, we recommend the curl recipes above (no runtime install, one HTTP call, always up-to-date with the API). The CLI is the better fit for local dev and long-running agent processes. ```bash # Recommended — universal one-liner (macOS, Linux, WSL, Git Bash) curl -fsSL https://cli.dailybot.com/install.sh | bash # Isolated Python env via pipx pipx install dailybot-cli # Or pip pip install dailybot-cli # Verify dailybot --version ```

Storing DAILYBOT_API_KEY safely

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