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Post a daily standup from Asana to Slack

Every weekday morning, your team channel shows what each person finished yesterday, what is due today and what is overdue.

Runs
On a schedule
Apps
Asana, Slack
AI
Optional
Access
Asana read; chat:write

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every weekday at 9, post to #team what each person completed yesterday in Asana, what's due today and what's overdue.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.

Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A remote team of eight spreads across time zones, so a live standup call never suits everyone. People post updates when they remember, and the team lead spends the first half hour of each day clicking through Asana to see what moved. Overdue tasks are noticed late, often when a client asks.

This automation writes the standup for you from Asana each weekday morning and posts it in Slack. Everyone starts the day with the same picture, without a meeting and without anyone writing an update.

What you get out of it

  • A standup without the meeting

    The summary is ready in Slack when people start work, whatever their time zone. Calls can be kept for problems that need discussion.

  • Overdue work is visible every day

    Late tasks are listed by person each morning, so they are dealt with before they turn into missed deadlines. Nobody has to chase them by hand.

  • Finished work gets noticed

    Yesterday's completed tasks are listed by name, so progress is visible to the whole team. Quiet contributors get credit too.

  • Built from what is actually in Asana

    The update reflects real task status, not what people remember to report. It also nudges the team to keep Asana up to date.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every weekday at 9:00, ClickRuntime looks at the tasks in your chosen Asana projects.

  2. It groups them by person into three lists: completed since yesterday, due today and overdue.

  3. A short summary is written, with AI tidying it into a readable update if you choose.

  4. The standup is posted in your #team Slack channel.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Asana
  • Connect Slack, then invite the app to the channel (type /invite @ClickRuntime there)

What you get

RunsOn a schedule
Post a daily standup from Asana to Slacktoday, 9:00Succeeded
Slack · #teamPriya: finished the Contoso proposal; due today: invoice review. Sam: overdue: Northwind homepage copy (2 days).

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.
  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

  • Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
  • Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
  • Add another app, for example also send it to Google Sheets
  • Combine it with other Asana and Slack steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.
daily_standup_summary_in_slack.pyexample
from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta, timezone
from collections import defaultdict
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai, notify, log

PROJECT_ID = "your-asana-project-id"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    since = (datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=3 if date.today().weekday() == 0 else 1)).isoformat()
    tasks = http.get(f"https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/projects/{PROJECT_ID}/tasks",
                     headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.secret('ASANA_TOKEN')}"},
                     params={"completed_since": since, "opt_fields": "name,completed,completed_at,due_on,assignee.name"}).json()["data"]
    today = date.today().isoformat()
    people = defaultdict(lambda: {"done": [], "today": [], "overdue": []})
    for t in tasks:
        who = (t.get("assignee") or {}).get("name", "Unassigned")
        if t["completed"]:
            people[who]["done"].append(t["name"])
        elif t.get("due_on") == today:
            people[who]["today"].append(t["name"])
        elif t.get("due_on") and t["due_on"] < today:
            people[who]["overdue"].append(t["name"])
    lines = [f"*{p}*: done {', '.join(v['done']) or '-'} | today {', '.join(v['today']) or '-'} | overdue {', '.join(v['overdue']) or '-'}"
             for p, v in people.items() if any(v.values())]
    text = "\n".join(lines) or "No task changes since the last standup."
    try:
        text = ai.generate(f"Rewrite as a short friendly standup, keep every task:\n{text}", max_output_tokens=600).text
    except ai.AIError as e:
        log.info("Posting plain standup", {"code": e.code})
    notify.slack(f"Standup for {today}\n{text}", channel="#team")
    return {"people": len(lines)}

FAQ

Common questions

Which projects are included?
You choose the projects or the team to cover. Tasks in other projects are left out, so a team standup does not include personal or unrelated work.
Does it post on weekends?
No. It runs Monday to Friday, and Monday's post covers what was completed since Friday morning, so nothing done over the weekend is missed.
What if someone has nothing to report?
People with no completed, due or overdue tasks are left out of the post. That keeps the message short and focused on what moved.
What permissions does it need?
Asana read; chat:write. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
No, but you can ask for an AI step (for example a summary). It then uses ClickRuntime's built-in AI allowance.
How many runs does it use?
One run each time it runs (on a schedule). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.
Can I change how it works?
Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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