Meet the Workflows: Interactive & ChatOps

Jan 13, 2026

Let’s keep exploring Peli’s Agent Factory!

In our previous post, we explored creative and culture workflows - agents that bring joy, build team culture, and create moments of delight. We discovered that AI agents don’t have to be all business; they can have personality while making work more enjoyable.

But sometimes you need help right now, at the exact moment you’re stuck on a problem. You don’t want to wait for a scheduled run - you want to summon an expert agent with a command. That’s where interactive workflows and ChatOps come in. These agents respond to slash commands and GitHub reactions, providing on-demand assistance with full context of the current situation. We learned that context is king - the right agent at the right moment with the right information is far more valuable than a dozen agents running on cron schedules.

Interactive & ChatOps Workflows

These agents respond to commands, providing on-demand assistance whenever you need it:

Q - Workflow optimizer that investigates performance and creates PRs
Grumpy Reviewer - Performs critical code reviews with, well, personality
Workflow Generator - Creates new workflows from issue requests

Interactive workflows changed how we think about agent invocation. Instead of everything running on a schedule, these respond to slash commands and reactions - /q summons the workflow optimizer, a 🚀 reaction triggers analysis. Q (yes, named after the James Bond quartermaster) became our go-to troubleshooter - it investigates workflow performance issues and opens PRs with optimizations.

The Grumpy Reviewer gave us surprisingly valuable feedback with a side of sass (“This function is so nested it has its own ZIP code”). We learned that context is king - these agents work because they’re invoked at the right moment with the right context, not because they run on a schedule.

Learn More

GitHub Agentic Workflows - The technology behind the workflows
Quick Start - How to write and compile workflows

Next Up: Testing & Validation Workflows

While ChatOps agents respond to commands, we also need workflows that continuously verify our systems still function as expected.

Continue reading: Testing & Validation Workflows →

This is part 10 of a 16-part series exploring the workflows in Peli’s Agent Factory.