Making pull requests less painful with an AI agent

CodiumAI PR-Agent is an open-source tool to help efficiently review and handle pull requests. It automatically analyzes the pull request and can provide several types of commands:

‣ Auto Description (/describe): Automatically generating PR description - title, type, summary, code walkthrough and labels.
‣ Auto Review (/review): Adjustable feedback about the PR main theme, type, relevant tests, security issues, score, and various suggestions for the PR content.
‣ Question Answering (/ask ...): Answering free-text questions about the PR.
‣ Code Suggestions (/improve): Committable code suggestions for improving the PR.
‣ Update Changelog (/update_changelog): Automatically updating the CHANGELOG.md file with the PR changes.
‣ Find Similar Issue (/similar_issue): Automatically retrieves and presents similar issues.
‣ Add Documentation 💎 (/add_docs): Automatically adds documentation to methods/functions/classes that changed in the PR.
‣ Generate Custom Labels 💎 (/generate_labels): Automatically suggests custom labels based on the PR code changes.
‣ Analyze 💎 (/analyze): Automatically analyzes the PR, and presents changes walkthrough for each component.

See the Installation Guide for instructions on installing and running the tool on different git platforms.

See the Usage Guide for running the PR-Agent commands via different interfaces, including CLI, online usage, or by automatically triggering them when a new PR is opened.

See the Tools Guide for a detailed description of the different tools (tools are run via the commands).

Table of Contents

• Example results
• Features overview
• Try it now
• Installation
• PR-Agent Pro 💎
• How it works
• Why use PR-Agent?

Example results

/describe

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/improve

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/generate_labels

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Features overview

PR-Agent offers extensive pull request functionalities across various git providers:

		GitHub	Gitlab	Bitbucket
TOOLS	Review	✅	✅	✅
	⮑ Incremental	✅
	⮑ SOC2 Compliance 💎	✅	✅	✅
	Ask	✅	✅	✅
	Describe	✅	✅	✅
	Improve	✅	✅	✅
	⮑ Extended	✅	✅	✅
	Reflect and Review	✅	✅	✅
	Update CHANGELOG.md	✅	✅	✅
	Find Similar Issue	✅
	Add PR Documentation 💎	✅	✅	✅
	Generate Custom Labels 💎	✅	✅
	Analyze PR Components 💎	✅	✅	✅
USAGE	CLI	✅	✅	✅
	App / webhook	✅	✅
	Tagging bot	✅
	Actions	✅
CORE	PR compression	✅	✅	✅
	Repo language prioritization	✅	✅	✅
	Adaptive and token-aware file patch fitting	✅	✅	✅
	Multiple models support	✅	✅	✅
	Incremental PR review	✅
	Static code analysis 💎	✅	✅	✅
	Global configuration 💎	✅	✅	✅

• 💎 means this feature is available only in PR-Agent Pro
• Support for additional git providers is described in here

Try it now

Try the GPT-4 powered PR-Agent instantly on your public GitHub repository. Just mention @CodiumAI-Agent and add the desired command in any PR comment. The agent will generate a response based on your command. For example, add a comment to any pull request with the following text:

@CodiumAI-Agent /review

and the agent will respond with a review of your PR

To set up your own PR-Agent, see the Installation section below. Note that when you set your own PR-Agent or use CodiumAI hosted PR-Agent, there is no need to mention @CodiumAI-Agent .... Instead, directly start with the command, e.g., /ask ....

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Installation

To use your own version of PR-Agent, you first need to acquire two tokens:

1. An OpenAI key from here, with access to GPT-4.
2. A GitHub personal access token (classic) with the repo scope.

There are several ways to use PR-Agent:

• Method 1: Use Docker image (no installation required)
• Method 2: Run from source
• Method 3: Run as a GitHub Action
• Method 4: Run as a polling server
  • Request reviews by tagging your GitHub user on a PR
• Method 5: Run as a GitHub App
  • Allowing you to automate the review process on your private or public repositories
• Method 6: Deploy as a Lambda Function
• Method 7: AWS CodeCommit
• Method 8: Run a GitLab webhook server
• Method 9: Run as a Bitbucket Pipeline

PR-Agent Pro 💎

PR-Agent Pro is a hosted version of PR-Agent, provided by CodiumAI. It is available for a monthly fee, and provides the following benefits:

1. Self-hosting - We take care of everything for you - hosting, models, regular updates, and more. Installation is as simple as signing up and adding the PR-Agent app to your GitHub\BitBucket repo.
2. Improved privacy - No data will be stored or used to train models. PR-Agent Pro will employ zero data retention, and will use an OpenAI account with zero data retention.
3. Improved support - PR-Agent Pro users will receive priority support, and will be able to request new features and capabilities.
4. Extra features -In addition to the benefits listed above, PR-Agent Pro will emphasize more customization, and the usage of static code analysis, in addition to LLM logic, to improve results. It has the following additional features:
   • SOC2 compliance check
   • PR documentation
   • Custom labels
   • Global configuration
   • Analyze PR components
   • Custom Code Suggestions [WIP]
   • Chat on Specific Code Lines [WIP]

How it works

The following diagram illustrates PR-Agent tools and their flow:

Check out the PR Compression strategy page for more details on how we convert a code diff to a manageable LLM prompt

Why use PR-Agent?

A reasonable question that can be asked is: "Why use PR-Agent? What makes it stand out from existing tools?"

Here are some advantages of PR-Agent:

• We emphasize real-life practical usage. Each tool (review, improve, ask, ...) has a single GPT-4 call, no more. We feel that this is critical for realistic team usage - obtaining an answer quickly (~30 seconds) and affordably.
• Our PR Compression strategy is a core ability that enables to effectively tackle both short and long PRs.
• Our JSON prompting strategy enables to have modular, customizable tools. For example, the '/review' tool categories can be controlled via the configuration file. Adding additional categories is easy and accessible.
• We support multiple git providers (GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket), multiple ways to use the tool (CLI, GitHub Action, GitHub App, Docker, ...), and multiple models (GPT-4, GPT-3.5, Anthropic, Cohere, Llama2).

Data privacy

If you host PR-Agent with your OpenAI API key, it is between you and OpenAI. You can read their API data privacy policy here: https://openai.com/enterprise-privacy

When using PR-Agent Pro 💎, hosted by CodiumAI, we will not store any of your data, nor will we use it for training. You will also benefit from an OpenAI account with zero data retention.

Links

• Discord community: https://discord.gg/kG35uSHDBc
• CodiumAI site: https://codium.ai
• Blog: https://www.codium.ai/blog/
• Troubleshooting: https://www.codium.ai/blog/technical-faq-and-troubleshooting/
• Support: support@codium.ai