Developers rely on pull requests (PRs) for vital contributions to projects through code review and integration. However, the PR review process can be time-consuming, often stalling overall development.
Today, the solution lies in AI-powered tools like PR-Agent by CodiumAI, revolutionizing PR reviews and enhancements.
What is Codium AI?
CodiumAI, an open-source provider, offers AI-driven products that simplify developers' lives and boost productivity.
What is PR-Agent?
CodiumAI's PR-Agent, a free open-source tool, streamlines pull request reviews efficiently.
It offers a suite of PR functionalities across various git platforms and supports multiple models (GPT-4, GPT -3.5, Anthropic, Cohere, Llama2). Explore detailed usage in this article.
Installation of PR-Agent
To integrate PR-Agent into GitHub, install CodiumAI PR-Agent.
Since it's free, you won't have to add any banking details or be charged a single penny.
Once PR-Agent is added to Github, it is easy to give access and apply PR-Agent to all repositories or a single repository. Profile Icon -> Settings -> Integrations -> Applications -> CodiumAI PR-Agent
Types of Command:
PR-Agent automatically analyzes the pull request and can provide several types of commands:
- Generate Custom Labels (/generate_labels): Automatically suggests custom labels based on the PR code changes.
- 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.
- PR Reflection (/reflect_and_review): Poses question based on the code changes analysis.
- Question Answering (/ask ...): Provide free-text questions about the PR.
- Code Suggestions (/improve): Provide code improvment suggestions anout the PR.
- Update Changelog (/update_changelog): Maitain the CHANGELOG.md file with the PR changes.
Explore these commands using this PR.
Generate Custom Labels (/generate_labels)
PR-Agent scans the code base, suggesting labels based on PR code changes. Enable custom labels by creating .pr_agent.toml in the repository. It also be used by /describe and /review commands. By default custom labels feature is false in PR-Agent to enable and config custom labels have to create .pr_agent.toml in the repository
- Enable the custom labels add
enable_custom_labelsit will turn off the default label and use custom labels - Add custom label add
custom_labels."Label name
[config]
enable_custom_labels=true
[custom_labels."Custom Label Name"]
description = "Description of when AI should suggest this label"
[custom_labels."Custom Label 2"]
description = "Description of when AI should suggest this label 2"
Auto Description (/describe)
Auto Description tool automatically generates PR descriptions - title, type, summary, walkthrough, and labels based on PR code changes.
- PR-Agent will update the title by analyzing the commit message and code
- PR-Agent will scan the code changes and add a description.
Auto Review (/review)
Auto Review tool provides comprehensive feedback on PR analysis, including the main theme, relevant tests, and security concerns.
- The review tool will provide a detailed PR Analysis with details like (PR summary, Type Of PR, Relevant test added, code effort, and security concerns...)
- The review tool will also provide suggestions on how PR is structured and a few points need to be verified for a reviewer
PR Reflection (/reflect_and_review)
PR-Agent asks basic questions via /reflect_and_review and analyzes author-provided answers, enhancing reviewers' and the author can answer these questions using the command /answer. Once an answer is provided by the author PR-Agent will analyze the answer and add the attribute Insights from user's answer in PR-Analysis, it's one of the features that help the reviewer to get more insight into PR.
Question Answering (/ask "...")
The tool answers reviewers' questions based on PR code changes.
Code Suggestions (/improve)
PR-Agent gives us a handle /improve to find possible bugs/errors. It will generate and suggest the improved code for the PR code.
PR-Agent will also provide the different committable suggestions that will be combined into a single compact comment /improve --pr_code_suggestions.summarize=true
Update Changelog (/update_changelog)
Update Changelog will help to maintain the CHANGELOG.md that keeps track of all the changes that were made in a specific version.
Conclusion
PR-Agent emerges as a game-changer in the development landscape. This open-source, free tool not only streamlines PR reviews but also redefines efficiency, minimizing manual efforts while maximizing precision.
By leveraging CodiumAI's PR-Agent, developers dive into processes, accelerating productivity and ensuring code quality. Its seamless integration across various git platforms and versatile command options mark a significant leap towards efficient PR handling.
Explore more about Codium AI PR-Agent and unlock a new era of hassle-free PR management.
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