Validate GitHub Configurations with GPT-4o-mini and Log Issues to Sheets and Slack

📊 Description Ensure your GitHub repositories stay configuration-accurate and documentation-compliant with this intelligent AI-powered validation workflow. 🤖 This automation monitors repository updates, compares configuration files against documentation references, detects inconsistencies, and alerts your team instantly—streamlining DevOps and compliance reviews. ⚡

What This Template Does Step 1: Triggers automatically on GitHub push or pull_request events. 🔄 Step 2: Fetches both configuration files (config/app-config.json and faq-config.json) from the repository. 📂 Step 3: Uses GPT-4o-mini to compare configurations and detect mismatches, missing keys, or deprecated fields. 🧠 Step 4: Categorizes issues by severity—critical, high, medium, or low—and generates actionable recommendations. 🚨 Step 5: Logs all discrepancies to Google Sheets for tracking and audit purposes. 📑 Step 6: Sends Slack alerts summarizing key issues and linking to the full report. 💬

Key Benefits ✅ Prevents production incidents due to config drift ✅ Ensures documentation stays in sync with code changes ✅ Reduces manual review effort with AI-driven validation ✅ Improves team response with Slack-based alerts ✅ Maintains audit logs for compliance and traceability

Features Real-time GitHub webhook integration AI-powered config comparison using GPT-4o-mini Severity-based issue classification Automated Google Sheets logging Slack alerts with detailed issue context Error handling for malformed JSON or parsing issues

Requirements GitHub OAuth2 credentials with repo and webhook permissions OpenAI API key (GPT-4o-mini or compatible model) Google Sheets OAuth2 credentials Slack API token with chat:write permissions

Target Audience DevOps teams ensuring consistent configuration across environments Engineering leads maintaining documentation accuracy QA and Compliance teams tracking configuration changes and risks

Setup Instructions Create GitHub OAuth2 credentials and enable webhook access. Connect your OpenAI API key under credentials. Add your Google Sheets and Slack integrations. Update file paths (config/app-config.json and faq-config.json) if your repo uses different names. Activate the workflow — it will start validating on every push or PR. 🚀