Stay informed,
not overwhelmed.
Stack Robot reads the official blogs, changelogs and release notes for every package, platform and AI tool you actually use, and turns them into one short digest for your Slack or inbox.
We read JavaScript, Python and Ruby projects. Another language? Let us know.
Sound familiar?
Keeping up is a part-time job.
Release notes on GitHub, announcements on X, deep dives scattered across a dozen blogs, and a new model, agent or CLI shipping every week. The information is all out there; it's just spread across more places than anyone can check.
You hear about what's loud, not what's relevant.
Feeds and newsletters push whatever the ecosystem is excited about this week. What changed in the tools your project depends on rarely trends, so it rarely reaches you.
Versions get bumped. Improvements get missed.
Updates arrive, everything keeps working, and the new features that could simplify your code quietly slip by unread. By the time a big upgrade comes due, you're reconstructing a year of changes in one sitting.
You build what your tools already shipped.
A day spent working around a limitation, a sprint spent on a feature, and then it turns out the fix was released months ago, a few paragraphs deep in a changelog nobody read. Solving already-solved problems is the most expensive way to stay busy.
What you learn never reaches your team.
Everyone on the team picks things up from different corners of the internet, and most of it never makes it to a shared channel. Half your team's tooling knowledge is sitting in someone's read-later list.
Noise in, signal out.
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Connect your repos
Install our GitHub app. Stack Robot detects your JavaScript, Python and Ruby dependencies from your project files.
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Add the rest of your stack
Beyond the packages we detect, add the platforms, runtimes and tools your team runs on.
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Cut the noise
AI summarizes every release and blog post and skips the marketing fluff, so you read only what's relevant.
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Get the digest
Digests arrive on your schedule, filtered your way, in your team's Slack or your inbox.
Your feed, your rules.
Claude Fable 5 ships; React 19.2 adds Activity
Anthropic's new flagship headlines the day, and React lands the state-preserving Activity component. Quiet everywhere else in your stack — 4 more releases below.
Anthropic's most capable model yet — state-of-the-art at coding and long-horizon autonomous work — plus Mythos 5 for authorized cyberdefense partners.
The new Activity component hides parts of the UI while preserving their state, ready to restore instantly. useEffectEvent lets Effects read the latest props and state without re-running on every change.
Schedule
Daily, weekly or selected days. Updates arrive when you want to review them.
Noise controls
Pick how much you want per source: security alerts only, curated, or everything. Then mute any noisy package or blog while keeping the rest.
Delivery routing
Route each digest to Slack or email, with its own sources, schedule and filters — say, #frontend and #infra.
Least-privilege access
Read-only access. We only parse your package manifests and workspace config, and we never store your source code. Here's exactly what we access and why.
I really needed this.
We were a small team of three engineers building a platform the whole company depended on. Our stack was Next.js, Prisma, AI SDK, shadcn/ui and a lot more, and my two side projects ran on TanStack Start and Drizzle. On top of that I wanted to keep up with Claude Code, Codex and every new AI model.
Staying current felt like a part-time job I didn't have time for: X only showed me the most viral updates, YouTube was mostly clickbait, and hunting down every blog's RSS feed was a heroic effort, if they had a feed at all. Dependabot would bump a version, but I wanted to know what changed without upgrading.
So I built a script to scrape, filter and summarize the blogs and release notes I cared about. I stopped feeling overwhelmed, and I started catching things I would have missed, like Next.js launching typed routes right when we wanted to build our own, and a dozen discoveries like it. It saved me so much time I had to build Stack Robot.
Free for open source. Fair for teams and solo devs.
2 months free with annual billing
Open Source
For open source teams and maintainers.
Team
For teams. Digests go to your team's Slack channel.
Solo Dev
For one developer. Digests go to your inbox.
Every plan starts with a 3-week trial, no card required. The covers how each plan works.
Questions, answered.
What does Stack Robot integrate with?
Today you can connect GitHub and Slack, with GitLab, Bitbucket, Microsoft Teams and Discord coming. We support JavaScript packages from npm, Python packages from PyPI, and Ruby gems from RubyGems. Using another language or want us to prioritize an integration? Send us a message.
How is this different from Dependabot?
Dependabot opens pull requests to bump your versions. Stack Robot explains what those new versions contain, plus blogs and platform news for things that aren't packages at all. They pair well: let Dependabot auto-merge patches, and use Stack Robot to decide when a minor or major is worth adopting properly. A version bump alone doesn't put the new features to work.
How is this different from the free newsletters?
The big newsletters are great, but they're written for a million readers and funded by sponsors. They cover whatever is loudest across the whole ecosystem, and filtering it for your stack is still your job. Stack Robot is closer to a newsletter that exists only for your team: it covers the packages, platforms and AI tools you actually use — including the ones no newsletter will ever mention — and skips the rest.
Can't I just watch repos on GitHub, use an RSS reader or follow tools on X?
You can. That's what we did. Watching repos on GitHub buries the releases you care about under every repo you've ever starred. X shows you only the loudest launches, wrapped in everything else the feed wants you to see. RSS gets you part of the way, but many tools' blogs don't publish a feed and changelogs often hide inside docs. We scrape those too and keep the source list current so you don't have to.
What can the GitHub app see?
Read-only access to your repositories. We only parse package manifests and workspace config (including a monorepo's workspace packages), keep just the package and tool names, and never store your source code.
How does the Open Source plan work?
Everything, for free: all your repos, Slack or email delivery, all noise and schedule controls. Sign up, and when you maintain open source, email us and we send you a code that makes your plan free. Enter it at checkout and you never pay.
How does the Solo Dev plan work?
One developer, unlimited repos, digests to your inbox for a flat $8 a month. We don't count repos, because keeping you informed doesn't cost us more as your projects pile up. Want digests in Slack instead? That's Team with a single Slack channel.
How does Team pricing work?
You pay $24 a month per team. Technically it's per Slack channel that receives digests, and since a team keeps its updates in one channel, it comes to the same thing. Point as many digests, repos and teammates at that channel as you like; several digests into the same channel still count once, so a company with five teams pays for five. Digests to your inbox are included at no extra charge.
Why per team and not per user or per repo?
A team is the fairest measure of company size we found. Per-user would overcharge for a service whose costs don't grow with readers, and per-repo would punish monorepos and many-repo setups that share one stack. Your bill only changes when you add a team, so it never surprises you.
How does the trial work?
Every plan starts with a 3-week trial: full features, no card. We only ask for billing once it ends.
Anything else?
Ask us at hello@stackrobot.dev. The robot only reads changelogs; your email gets a human.
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