Generate GitHub Release Notes with AI

Automatically generate GitHub release notes using AI.

This workflow compares your latest two GitHub releases, summarises the changes, and produces a clean, ready-to-paste changelog entry.

It’s ideal for automating GitHub Releases, versioning workflows, and keeping your documentation or CHANGELOG.md up to date without manual editing.

What this workflow does

• Listens for newly published GitHub Releases.
• Fetches and compares the latest two GitHub release versions.
• Uses an AI Chat Model to summarise changes and generate structured release notes.
• Outputs clean, reusable release note content for GitHub, documentation, or CI/CD pipelines.

How it works

1. GitHub Trigger detects a new published release.
2. Release detail nodes extract the latest tag, body, and repository metadata.
3. Comparison logic fetches the previous release and prepares a diff.
4. Chat Model nodes (via OpenRouter) generate both a summary and a final, formatted release note.

Requirements / Connections

• GitHub OAuth credential configured in n8n.
• OpenRouter API key connected to the Chat Model nodes.

Setup instructions

1. Import the template.
2. Select your GitHub OAuth connection in all GitHub nodes.
3. Add your OpenRouter credential to the Chat Model nodes.
4. (Optional) Adjust the AI prompts to customise tone or formatting.

Output

The workflow produces:

• A concise summary of differences between the last two GitHub releases.
• A polished AI-generated GitHub release note ready to publish.

Customisation ideas

• Push generated notes directly into a CHANGELOG.md or documentation repo.
• Send release summaries to Slack or Teams.
• Include commit messages, PR titles, or labels for deeper analysis.