Daily

Get a reminder the day before you're on call

The afternoon before a shift, you get a note saying when your on-call starts and ends.

Runs: Daily
Apps: PagerDuty
AI: Not needed
Access: read

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day at 4pm, check PagerDuty and email me if I'm on call tomorrow, with the schedule name and the start and end times.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Being on call usually starts at a handoff time, and people forget. A schedule gets set weeks ahead, someone swaps a shift on Friday, and on Monday at nine the pager goes off while the engineer is on a plane or at a child's recital with their laptop at home. The missed page then escalates to the next person, and the incident gets slower to acknowledge.

Each day, PagerDuty is asked whether your user is on call tomorrow. If there is a shift on the schedule the day ahead, you get an email stating that you are about to be on call. If there is none, nothing is sent, so the message is a signal rather than a daily chore to read past.

It helps rotation members who also work other projects, contractors with irregular schedules and anyone whose swaps are agreed in a hurry.

What you get out of it

A reminder the day before
A shift that starts tomorrow gives time to charge the laptop, check VPN access and rearrange evening plans. One day is long enough to prepare and short enough that nobody forgets again.
Swaps are picked up automatically
The reminder reads the live on-call schedule, so a shift you agreed to take on Friday still triggers a reminder on Sunday. People trust the notice because it reflects the schedule as it stands.
Fewer missed first pages
Most missed pages come from not realizing the shift began. Being told the day before cuts those slips, which keeps acknowledgment times down and spares the next person on the policy an unnecessary escalation.
No message on days off
Because email is only sent when a shift exists, you are not trained to ignore a daily note. The one you do receive is meaningful, and it stays visible in your inbox.
Better work-life planning
Knowing about a week of on-call duty ahead of time lets you decline a weekend trip or ask for a swap early. Someone can cover your shift calmly rather than scrambling at the last minute.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every afternoon ClickRuntime checks PagerDuty to see whether you are on call tomorrow.
If you are, you get an email with the schedule name and when your shift starts and ends.
If you aren't, nothing is sent.

Before it runs live

Connect PagerDuty

What you get

RunsDaily

Get a reminder the day before you're on calltoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · On-call reminderPrimary - Platform: 2026-10-20T09:00:00Z to 2026-10-27T09:00:00Z

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
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AI where it helps
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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
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other PagerDuty 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.

send_an_on_call_reminder.pyexample

from datetime import date, timedelta
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, notify

PD = "https://api.pagerduty.com"

def pd(path, **params):
    resp = http.get(f"{PD}{path}", params=params, headers={"Authorization": f"Token token={credentials.secret('PAGERDUTY_API_KEY')}",
                    "Accept": "application/json"})
    resp.raise_for_status()
    return resp.json()

MY_USER_ID = "PABC123"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    tomorrow = date.today() + timedelta(days=1)
    shifts = pd("/oncalls", **{"user_ids[]": MY_USER_ID, "since": f"{tomorrow}T00:00:00Z", "until": f"{tomorrow}T23:59:59Z"})["oncalls"]
    shifts = [s for s in shifts if s.get("schedule")]
    if not shifts:
        return {"on_call": False}
    lines = [f"{s['schedule']['summary']}: {s['start']} to {s['end']}" for s in shifts]
    notify.email_me("You're on call tomorrow", "\n".join(lines))
    return {"on_call": True}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it remind me about every on-call shift or only the first day?

It looks at the day ahead and mentions an upcoming shift whenever you are on call tomorrow. For a multi-day rotation, that can mean a reminder at the start and again when a new schedule layer begins for you.

Can I get reminders for the whole team?

The query is built around one user. For a team you can ask your AI assistant to run it for several people, with each person's name in the subject, though individual reminders are the more common choice.

Which PagerDuty access does it need?

Reading on-call schedules works with a read-only API key or an account that can view schedules. The key is stored as a secret in ClickRuntime, and nothing in the process creates or edits incidents. Nothing is written back to PagerDuty.

What permissions does it need?

read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (daily). 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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