Launching Automations

Engineering organizations struggle with driving migrations, dependency upgrades, policy enforcement, CVE sweeps, and documentation standardization. Those tasks all require the same slow cycle: align teams, schedule work, chase updates, resolve inconsistencies, and hope it lands before priorities shift. Migration initiatives routinely take weeks or months, not because they’re hard, but because they rely on human attention, manual coordination and compete with the pressure to ship features.

That’s why we built Automations: to give engineering teams a reliable way to drive large, cross-repo initiatives without the months of manual coordination they require today.

Instead of asking dozens of teams to schedule work, align on standards, and make updates manually, Automations execute these changes centrally and consistently, while providing the approvals, guardrails, and visibility organizations require.

Automations remove the coordination bottleneck so that AI software engineers can handle the repetitive, organization-wide work, while human engineers stay in the loop for control and review and focus on what actually moves the business forward.

What are Automations?

Automations are repeatable, end-to-end workflows that can run on demand or trigger automatically from webhooks, pull requests, or schedules. They combine prompts and deterministic scripts with deep integrations into your source control, ticketing systems, and organizational knowledge sources.

Teams use Automations to eliminate drift, reduce maintenance overhead, and create predictable processes across their entire codebase.

How do Automations run?

Automations always run inside the same production-grade development environments your engineers use. Every automation executes in a fully configured, reproducible environment that includes your tools, dependencies, and guardrails. If needed, an engineer can open the exact environment an Automation used, inspect the execution, adjust manually, or take over entirely - no setup, no drift, and no hidden execution context.

Build custom Automations

Automations are composed of reusable tasks - scripts, prompts, and integrations with your systems. You define the change once, and Ona applies it consistently across the repositories you target, without relying on local setups or CI environments.

Put Automations on auto-pilot

Trigger Automations from webhooks like security scanners, on schedules, or from pull requests. When activated, Ona runs in the background, applies the required changes across your selected repositories, and surfaces the result as a report or pull request for review so you always stay in control.

Execute across thousands of repos

Run Automations across entire organizations, not just single repositories. They execute in parallel, turning work that normally takes weeks into minutes. With human-in-the-loop reviews wherever you need them.

Govern at scale

Everything runs in your cloud, with full logs for every execution. Engineers work from the same standardized environment, eliminating guesswork and drift. You keep complete visibility and control over how Ona and Automations interact with your codebase.

Where should I start?

Customers apply Automations broadly across their SDLC, but these areas are where they see the fastest value:

CVE remediation (critical + routine)

When new vulnerabilities are detected, Ona responds immediately and handles remediation end-to-end: applying the required updates, running tests, and opening PRs across all affected repositories. Engineers review and merge as usual, but are no longer the bottleneck.

Documentation and boilerplate updates

Keep configuration files and documentation consistent across your organization. Update Backstage catalogs, README files, environment configs, and other boilerplate across repositories from a single automation.

Development environment setup

Convert every repository into a repeatable dev container so engineers and Ona run the same consistent setup. Automations enforce a single source of truth across your codebase, removing drift and eliminate environment issues.

Extend Automations across your entire SDLC

If it can be scripted, defined as a prompt and you'd usually run it sequentially, it can be defined as an Automation. Mass refactors, dependency upgrades, compliance checks, policy enforcement, and other cross-repo initiatives all become centralized and consistent across your entire codebase.

Automations is available for our Enterprise users! Request a demo to learn more.