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by iamalizaidi 130 days ago
Really appreciate that — that’s exactly the gap I was trying to address.

Re: noise — I agree, that’s the main failure mode for any PR bot.

A few things I did to keep signal high:

Only trigger on explicit file patterns (no fuzzy matching by default)

Idempotent comments — it updates instead of spamming new ones

If multiple decisions match, it groups them into a single comment

Severity levels (info / warning / critical) so teams can tune strictness

Optional “fail critical” mode so it never blocks PRs unless configured

The goal is that it behaves more like a linter than a chatbot — predictable and quiet unless something clearly matches.

If it ever becomes background noise, it’s failed

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