Verify security contacts after a GitHub secret alert
When a secret alert lands, remove one source of uncertainty before you send the escalation.
Trigger
New Secret Scanning Alert Detected
Triggers when a new secret scanning alert is detected in a GitHub repository. Monitors open secret scanning alerts and fires an event for each newly detected alert. Supports filtering by secret type (e.g., personal access tokens, AWS keys) and by token validity status (active, inactive, unknown). The payload includes the alert number, secret type, validity status, resolution state, timestamps, URLs, and flags for push protection bypass, public exposure, and multi-repo detection.
Action
Verify Email
Tool to verify the deliverability of an email address. use when you need to confirm that an email can receive messages before outreach.
Why this helps
During an urgent security response, discovering a contact address bounces wastes attention you need elsewhere.
- Confirms a response path quickly
- Reduces incident-time uncertainty
- Keeps escalation work focused
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect GitHub and Findymail to Notis once.
- 2Create an automation with an instruction to verify the appropriate known security contact when a new secret alert appears.
- 3Select New Secret Scanning Alert Detected, choose a run-report channel, and test with a safe example alert.
Questions about this workflow
Does this expose the secret?
The automation should only verify the designated contact address; it does not need to include the secret value.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link GitHub to Findymail. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
GitHub triggers
Findymail actions
New Workflow Artifact Created
Triggers when a new workflow artifact is created in a GitHub repository. Monitors for newly created GitHub Actions workflow artifacts. Optionally filters by artifact name to restrict monitoring to specific artifacts.
Create Contact List
Tool to create a new contact list. use when you need to organize contacts into a named list before adding them.
Branch Changed
Triggers when a GitHub branch changes. Monitors a specific branch for: - New commits pushed (head commit SHA changes) - Protection status toggled (branch becomes protected or unprotected) - Protection settings changed, including: required status checks and their enforcement level, admin enforcement, required pull request reviews (dismiss stale reviews, code owner reviews, approving review count, last push approval), required linear history, force push allowance, deletion allowance, conversation resolution, branch locking, and fork syncing.
Delete Contact List
Tool to delete a specified contact list by its id. use after confirming the list id to remove it.
New Branch Created
Triggers when a new branch is created in a GitHub repository. Detects newly created branches. Deleted branches do not fire events.
Find Email by Name
Tool to find someone's email using their full name and company domain. use when you have a person's name and domain and need their email address. supports asynchronous search via webhook url.
Check Run Status / Conclusion Changed
Triggers when a specific GitHub check run changes its status or conclusion. Monitors a single check run for changes to: status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.), conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required), started_at, and completed_at.
Get Contact Lists
Tool to retrieve all contact lists. use when you need an overview of your existing findymail lists.
Check Suite Status / Conclusion Changed
Triggers when a GitHub check suite changes its status or conclusion for a given ref. Monitors all check suites associated with a git reference (branch, tag, or commit SHA) for changes to status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.) and conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required, startup_failure, stale). Optionally filters by GitHub App ID.
List Contacts
Tool to retrieve contacts from a specified list (paginated). use after selecting a list to fetch its contacts.
New Code Scanning Alert Created
Triggers when a new code scanning alert is created in a repository. Fires an event for each newly created code scanning alert detected in the configured repository. Alerts can be filtered by Git reference, scanning tool, state, and severity. The payload includes the alert number, rule details, tool information, state, severity, and the location of the most recent instance.
Verify Email
Tool to verify the deliverability of an email address. use when you need to confirm that an email can receive messages before outreach.
New Repository Collaborator Added
Triggers when a new collaborator is added to a GitHub repository. Monitors the full list of collaborators on a repository and fires an event for each newly added collaborator. The payload includes the collaborator's GitHub username, account ID, profile URL, avatar URL, permission flags (pull, triage, push, maintain, admin), and assigned role name.
Commit Event
Triggered when a new commit is pushed to a repository.
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