Renamed WelcomeEmailAutomation model to Automation

[EvanHahn]

towards https://linear.app/ghost/issue/NY-1260

This change should have no user impact.

This renames "welcome email automation" to "automation" across the codebase. It does not rename any other models, so WelcomeEmailAutomatedEmail and WelcomeEmailAutomationRun still exist.

This should be safe because we take sites offline for migrations.

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📒 Files selected for processing (33)

• ghost/admin/package.json
• ghost/core/core/server/api/endpoints/automated-emails.js
• ghost/core/core/server/api/endpoints/automations.js
• ghost/core/core/server/data/exporter/table-lists.js
• ghost/core/core/server/data/migrations/versions/6.37/2026-05-04-13-46-58-rename-welcome-email-automations-table-to-automations.js
• ghost/core/core/server/data/schema/schema.js
• ghost/core/core/server/models/automation.js
• ghost/core/core/server/models/index.js
• ghost/core/core/server/models/welcome-email-automated-email.js
• ghost/core/core/server/models/welcome-email-automation-run.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/member-welcome-emails/service.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/members/api.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/members/members-api/members-api.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/members/members-api/repositories/event-repository.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/members/members-api/repositories/member-repository.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/outbox/handlers/member-created.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/welcome-email-automations/poll.js
• ghost/core/package.json
• ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/automated-emails.test.js
• ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/automations.test.js
• ghost/core/test/e2e-api/members/gift-subscriptions.test.js
• ghost/core/test/integration/exporter/exporter.test.js
• ghost/core/test/integration/jobs/process-outbox.test.js
• ghost/core/test/integration/services/member-welcome-emails.test.js
• ghost/core/test/integration/services/welcome-email-automations/poll.test.js
• ghost/core/test/unit/api/endpoints/automations.test.js
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/data/schema/integrity.test.js
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/models/automation.test.js
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/models/welcome-email-automation-run.test.js
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/members/members-api/members-api.test.js
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/members/members-api/repositories/event-repository.test.js
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/members/members-api/repositories/member-repository.test.js
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/outbox/handlers/member-created.test.js

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• ghost/core/test/unit/server/data/schema/integrity.test.js
• ghost/core/package.json
• ghost/core/core/server/services/members/members-api/repositories/event-repository.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/members/members-api/repositories/member-repository.js
• ghost/core/core/server/models/welcome-email-automation-run.js
• ghost/core/test/integration/exporter/exporter.test.js
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/members/members-api/repositories/member-repository.test.js
• ghost/admin/package.json
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/members/members-api/members-api.test.js

🚧 Files skipped from review as they are similar to previous changes (21)

• ghost/core/core/server/services/welcome-email-automations/poll.js
• ghost/core/test/unit/api/endpoints/automations.test.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/members/api.js
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/models/welcome-email-automation-run.test.js
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/models/automation.test.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/members/members-api/members-api.js
• ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/automated-emails.test.js
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/outbox/handlers/member-created.test.js
• ghost/core/core/server/data/exporter/table-lists.js
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/members/members-api/repositories/event-repository.test.js
• ghost/core/core/server/api/endpoints/automated-emails.js
• ghost/core/test/e2e-api/members/gift-subscriptions.test.js
• ghost/core/core/server/models/welcome-email-automated-email.js
• ghost/core/test/integration/services/welcome-email-automations/poll.test.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/outbox/handlers/member-created.js
• ghost/core/core/server/data/migrations/versions/6.37/2026-05-04-13-46-58-rename-welcome-email-automations-table-to-automations.js
• ghost/core/core/server/models/automation.js
• ghost/core/test/integration/services/member-welcome-emails.test.js
• ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/automations.test.js
• ghost/core/test/integration/jobs/process-outbox.test.js
• ghost/core/core/server/data/schema/schema.js

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Walkthrough

Renames the database table welcome_email_automations to automations and replaces the WelcomeEmailAutomation Bookshelf model with Automation. Adds a non-transactional migration to perform the table rename and updates schema foreign-key targets to automations.id. Refactors models, API endpoints, services, and repositories to use the new model and relation names, updates queries/joins accordingly, and adjusts tests and fixtures to reference automations. Increments package versions in ghost/admin/package.json and ghost/core/package.json from 6.36.1-rc.0 to 6.37.0-rc.0.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 14.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarizes the primary change in the pull request: renaming the WelcomeEmailAutomation model to Automation across the codebase.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is directly related to the changeset, clearly explaining the model rename, scope of changes, and rationale for the migration.
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It looks like this PR contains a migration 👀
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• ⚠️ Tested performance on staging database servers, as performance on local machines is not comparable to a production environment
• Satisfies idempotency requirement (both up() and down())
• Does not reference models
• Filename is in the correct format (and correctly ordered)
• Targets the next minor version
• All code paths have appropriate log messages
• Uses the correct utils
• Contains a minimal changeset
• Does not mix DDL/DML operations
• Tested in MySQL and SQLite

Schema changes

• Both schema change and related migration have been implemented
• For index changes: has been performance tested for large tables
• For new tables/columns: fields use the appropriate predefined field lengths
• For new tables/columns: field names follow the appropriate conventions
• Does not drop a non-alpha table outside of a major version

Data changes

• Mass updates/inserts are batched appropriately
• Does not loop over large tables/datasets
• Defends against missing or invalid data
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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 86.84211% with 5 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 73.19%. Comparing base (7ddd8db) to head (bfdd26e).

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...ore/server/models/welcome-email-automated-email.js	50.00%	1 Missing ⚠️
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...e/server/services/member-welcome-emails/service.js	80.00%	1 Missing ⚠️

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