How I Put My Agent in CI to Automate Release Notes

When I joined Entire, I noticed my boss spending a chunk of time every week writing detailed release notes, called Dispatches at Entire. It looked like a painful process. Each Dispatch had to cover changes across several repositories, explain why those changes mattered, credit external contributors, and carefully avoid leaking anything that was not public yet. I offered to take it over. I had solved a similar problem before, so I figured it would be an easy win. I built something similar and simpler at Block While I was at Block, I built a release notes generator for goose . It ran in GitHub Actions after a release workflow completed, checked out the new tag, compared it against the previous one, and handed goose a recipe to inspect the commit diff. Goose organized those commits into features, bug fixes, improvements, and documentation. Each entry got a short description and a PR link. The workflow then updated the GitHub release and posted the announcement to Discord, opening a thread if the notes exceeded the message limit. It was clean and effective, but it solved a very clean problem: one repository, one new release tag, public commit history, and concise output. So when I looked at Entire’s Dispatches, I assumed I could reuse the same playbook. Gather changes, run goose, post the draft. That assumption did not survive contact with reality. But a Dispatch turned out to be more complex A Dispatch spans multiple projects: the Entire CLI, entire.io, EntireDB, external agent integrations, and open source libraries like go-git, go-nuts, git-sync, and ForgeMark. Every project also ships on a different cadence. Some push to main and deploy continuously. Others bundle work into scheduled releases. The CLI maintains separate stable and nightly channels, which means a feature can be available to testers without being part of the latest stable tag. Then there are feature flags. Finding changes was not the hard part because GitHub APIs handle that easily. The hard part was