I'd much rather use those tools at my own discretion than have them clutter an area of the site where I expect to see feedback from my human users.

It would also make GitHub a much more intimidating place to submit code. I don't want those things for my smaller projects.

So some sort of "plugin" interface where you can opt in to certain bots on a per-repo basis? I could really get behind that! 100% automated and unsolicited? No thank you!

Hey, check the Service Hooks tab of your Repository Settings.

It would be really helpful if each had a short summary when you hover over them as its an awful lot of names which don't mean much. I came across Travis from elsewhere but never would have guessed it was CI from this list.

yeah, +1. I actually cloned the repo so I could peek at the source for the hooks to all these services I'd never heard of. Was easier (lazier) than googling.

https://github.com/github/github-services/tree/master/servic...

Exactly. I think bots are exactly the wrong shape for this task. What would be better would be a framework for automatically processing the files in a git repository and then generating a commit. GitHub could have an interface for uploading them and for applying them to repositories. You could then apply them yourself, or someone else could fork, apply, and then submit a pull request.