Joanna Reviews Home Assistant Changelogs After Tugtainer Updates (Human in the Loop)

I just finished a workflow I have wanted for a while: when Tugtainer updates my Home Assistant Core container, Joanna now grabs the matching Home Assistant changelog, analyzes it, and creates a GitHub Update Digest issue for me to review. That keeps a human in the loop while still getting AI speed where it matters.

What Changed

On the Home Assistant side, I extended the existing Tugtainer webhook automation to detect true Core updates from the ### Updated: section, normalize the detected version to the expected YYYY.M changelog format, and dispatch Joanna with a structured payload contract.

On the Joanna runtime side, I added a native digest path that fetches the changelog, extracts actionable items, and upserts a GitHub issue named Home Assistant Core Update Digest - YYYY.M. Repeated runs for the same version refresh the same issue instead of creating duplicates.

Why This Pattern Works

• Tugtainer is the trigger source of truth for container update events.
• Joanna does the changelog digestion and issue synthesis consistently.
• GitHub becomes the review queue with clear action buckets.
• I approve or reject follow-ups manually, so nothing is blindly auto-applied.

HA Snippet

The package now emits a dedicated event and dispatch contract when Home Assistant Core is updated by Tugtainer.

event_type: tugtainer_home_assistant_core_updated
ha_core_version_full: "{{ ha_core_version_full }}"
ha_core_version_minor: "{{ ha_core_version_minor }}"
ha_core_changelog_url: "{{ ha_core_changelog_url }}"

Primary YAML change: config/packages/tugtainer_updates.yaml

Resulting digest issue example: Home Assistant Core Update Digest – 2026.4

If you saw my earlier Tugtainer notification flow, this builds directly on it: Tugtainer Docker updates and Home Assistant notifications.

Draft generated with help from Codex