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Agentic Code Reviews

Optibot — Autonomous, context-aware, and built to transform how engineering teams handle code reviews.
By Myra Magpantay
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Agentic Code Reviews

Optibot — Autonomous, context-aware, and built to transform how engineering teams handle code reviews. 💡 What is Optibot? Optibot is Optimal AI’s agentic code reviewer — an autonomous assistant that reviews pull requests with the depth, precision, and consistency of a senior engineer. Unlike static linters or suggestion engines, Optibot understands your entire repository. It provides context-aware feedback, identifies performance or security issues, and even explains its reasoning directly in your PR threads. It integrates seamlessly with both GitHub and GitLab, becoming an intelligent participant in your workflow. From summarizing pull requests to suggesting fixes, Optibot helps your team move faster, with more confidence and less noise. 🚧 The Problem Code reviews are essential — but they’re often slow, inconsistent, and overloaded with minor feedback. Developers wait for reviews, PR queues pile up, and critical issues slip through. Manual reviews can vary in quality depending on who’s reviewing, while automated tools often produce noisy or irrelevant feedback. The result? Reduced velocity, frustrated teams, and inconsistent code quality. 🚀 The Solution Optibot changes the way teams approach reviews by combining LLM-based reasoning with deep repository understanding. It automatically reviews pull requests, summarizes code changes, detects regressions, and posts helpful comments in natural language — all within seconds of a PR being opened. With Optibot, you’ll: - Reduce average review times - Maintain consistent code quality - Empower engineers to focus on building, not debugging - Catch issues before they merge 🔑 Key Capabilities 🧩 Full Codebase Context Optibot reviews your PRs with a full understanding of your repository history, dependencies, and team conventions. This enables it to deliver precise, context-aware feedback that aligns with how your team actually writes code — not just how it looks syntactically. By analyzing related files, similar patterns, and previous decisions, Optibot ensures its feedback feels human, relevant, and consistent. 📝 Smart PR Summaries Writing summaries manually can be tedious. Optibot automatically creates clear, concise summaries describing what changed, why it matters, and any associated risks. These summaries include: - Changed files and functions - Dependency or logic updates - Potential regressions - Related JIRA or issue links This makes it easy for reviewers to get context instantly — even on large, multi-file PRs. ⚙️ CI Fixer Agent When a CI run fails, Optibot detects the issue, analyzes logs, and suggests possible fixes automatically. It flags: - Broken or flaky tests - Misconfigurations in pipelines - Missing environment variables - Syntax or dependency errors The CI Fixer Agent helps engineers recover from build failures faster and reduces time spent parsing logs. 🛡️ Security Checks Security shouldn’t slow development down. Optibot automatically performs AI-powered security scans on each PR — identifying risky imports, vulnerable packages, or unsafe patterns. When issues are found, it provides line-level explanations and recommendations, ensuring teams can remediate before merge. It integrates seamlessly with your workflow, offering a “shift-left” approach to code security. 💬 Automated & Contextual Comments Optibot communicates like a teammate. Every suggestion is posted as a natural-language comment in the PR thread, explaining the reasoning, context, and potential alternatives. Developers can respond, accept, or dismiss suggestions — just like human feedback — keeping collaboration simple and organic. 🧭 Get Started - GitHub Integration - GitLab Integration - Optibot Features Overview

Last updated on Oct 13, 2025

GitLab Integration Setup

Enable Optibot to analyze your GitLab repositories, automate code reviews, and generate contextual summaries. Setup time: ~12–15 minutes Required permissions: Maintainer or Admin on the GitLab group or repository. Sign Up and Access the Integration Page 1. Go to the Optimal AI signup page. 2. Select “Sign Up with GitLab.” 3. Complete your account details and verify your email address. 4. After verification, you’ll be redirected to the GitLab Integration Setup page. Create a GitLab Access Token Optibot requires a GitLab Access Token from a bot or service account with specific permissions to interact with your repositories. Steps: 1. In GitLab, navigate to your group or repository’s Settings → Access Tokens. (Group tokens are recommended for multi-repository installations.) 2. Click “Add new token.” 3. Enter a Token name, e.g., Optibot-code-review or Optibot Reviewer. 4. Add a short description, and set the expiration date to the maximum allowed. 5. Assign the role as Maintainer. 6. Under Scopes, select all of the following: - api — Full API access - read_repository — Clone and read repositories - write_repository — Create merge request comments - read_user — Access user information Retrieve the Bot/User ID Optibot also needs the Bot or User ID associated with your GitLab token. 1. Navigate to your Admin Area → Users. 2. Search for the service or bot account (e.g., Optibot-code-review-2). 3. Open the user profile and note the ID listed under the account section. Example: ID: 16 Connect GitLab to Optimal AI Once you have your token and user ID: 1. Return to the GitLab Setup Page. 2. If using GitLab self-hosted, replace the default URL gitlab.com with your custom domain. 3. Enter: - GitLab Token — your access token from Step 2 - GitLab Bot/User ID — the numeric ID from Step 3 4. Click “Connect GitLab.” Select Repositories for Installation After connecting, you’ll see a list of available repositories. - Select the repositories where you want Optibot to be active. - Optibot will automatically: - Install itself in each selected repo - Create necessary webhooks for real-time event monitoring You can manage or update these repositories anytime via the GitLab Integration Dashboard. Verify Installation Once setup completes: - Optibot will begin analyzing merge requests automatically. - You can confirm installation by checking your GitLab Repository → Settings → Webhooks. There should be an entry for agents.getoptimal.ai. Optibot Features on GitLab Once integrated, Optibot enables: - 🧠 Automated Code Reviews Reviews each new merge request and provides detailed feedback directly in GitLab comments. - 🧾 AI-Generated Summaries Generates structured summaries and line-by-line breakdowns of code changes for every MR. - ⚙️ Contextual Recommendations Highlights potential issues, security concerns, or missing documentation based on code patterns. - 🔗 Cross-Tool Integration Works seamlessly with Jira, Bitbucket, and other tools for compliance and reporting. For additional configuration options, visit the Advanced Configuration page. ✅ Your Optibot GitLab integration is now complete. From here, you can monitor and manage your integrations anytime at: 🔗 https://agents.getoptimal.ai/dashboard/gitlab-integration

Last updated on Oct 08, 2025

🔧 GitHub Integration Setup Guide (Optibot)

This guide walks you through how to install and configure Optibot — Optimal AI’s secure AI code review agent — directly within your GitHub workflow. ✅ Prerequisites Before you begin, ensure you have: - Admin access to your GitHub organization or repo - A GitHub account with permission to install apps - Access to your org’s GitHub repositories 🪜 Step 1: Sign Up & Install the GitHub App 1. Visit the Sign-Up Link Begin by signing up through the unique link provided by Optimal AI. This link activates your free trial (unlimited repos, PRs, and usage during trial). 2. Authorize the GitHub App Installation During onboarding, you’ll be prompted to install the Optibot GitHub App: - Select the organization and repositories where you want Optibot active. - Grant the required read/write permissions for pull requests and metadata. 3. Select Repositories Choose either: - All Repositories (for full org coverage), or - Specific Repos where you’d like Optibot to run. 4. Wait for Context Indexing Once installed, Optibot begins indexing your codebase to build context. - For small repos: indexing completes in minutes - For large repos or monorepos: indexing can take a few hours - Very large codebases may take up to a week ⏳ During indexing, the app may appear as “Installing…” — no action is needed during this phase. 🧠 Step 2: Optibot Starts Reviewing PRs Once indexing is complete, Optibot begins functioning automatically: - 🧾 PR Summaries You’ll receive rich, contextual summaries with functional intent, not just diffs. - 🧠 Automated Code Reviews Optibot flags bugs, security issues, anti-patterns, and logic problems across the repo. - 🟢 Merge recommendations or 🛑 blocking flags will appear as part of the PR review flow. ⚙️ Step 3: Customize with .optibot file (Optional) Upon installation, Optibot opens a PR containing a default .optibot file You can customize: - ✅ Repos or folders where Optibot should/shouldn’t review code - 🧪 Enable or disable certain review features (e.g. test fixing, CI failure handling) - 🛡️ Turn on optional security enforcement or guidelines Once merged, these settings go live and will be applied on future PRs. 🧩 Optional Features to Turn On (Post-Setup) Once you're familiar with the baseline functionality, you can optionally enable: - Guidelines Enforcement: Upload a shared ruleset to enforce team practices across PRs - Dependabot Bundling: Automatically test, merge, and close PRs opened by Dependabot - SOC 2 Compliance Checks: Run #optibot compliance in PR comments for risk assessments 🛠 Troubleshooting & Support - Join a shared Slack channel with the Optimal AI team for real-time help - Installation status, indexing progress, and detailed logs are visible in your dashboard - Questions? Use @optibot inside PRs to request additional reviews or ask for clarifications 🔐 Security Notes - No code is stored — all analysis is done ephemerally during the review - Optibot supports fine-grained repo-level access - Your .optibot file config stays version-controlled inside your repo

Last updated on Oct 08, 2025

Optibot Features

Streamline your engineering workflow with Optibot, an AI-powered GitHub agent that reviews code, generates release notes, enforces compliance, bundles dependencies, and analyzes CI failures. Most features run directly inside pull requests, so your team can focus on shipping, not manual reviews. Code Review 🤖 Optibot automatically reviews your pull requests with context-aware analysis. - Summarizes PR changes - Marks PRs as Ready to Merge or Needs Changes - Leaves inline comments on code - Ranks feedback by confidence level How to use it: #optibot review Or simply comment: Optibot, please review this PR Release Notes 📢 Turn technical updates into customer-ready release notes. - Groups updates into Features, Improvements, Bug Fixes - Clear, professional formatting for external sharing Generating notes: #optibot release notes Compliance Checks 🔒 Automated SOC2 and security compliance scans directly in your PRs. - Flags risky code (API keys, permissions, data exposure) - Maps findings to SOC2 principles - Provides recommended fixes Requesting a compliance check: #optibot compliance Dependency Bundler 📦 Stop managing dozens of noisy Dependabot PRs. - Bundles dependency updates into one clean PR - Summarizes key changes and flags breaking updates - Saves hours of manual review Enabling bundling: Activate this feature via .optibot configuration: "dependencyBundler": { "enabled": true } CI fixer Agent ⚙️ ⚡ Debug CI failures automatically. Automatically resolve failed CI builds. CI failures can block your entire release pipeline. The CI Fixer Agent detects failed workflows, analyzes logs, and automatically repairs code errors — restoring your build to green without manual intervention. 🧩 Issue When a CI run fails, Optibot instantly posts an automated comment with the error details and affected files. Example: @parcel/transformer-js: Expression expected – Multiple syntax and type errors In this case, the issue was caused by invalid syntax and type mismatches in: src/pages/Partials/Contributors.tsx src/router/paths.ts 🔧 Changes The CI Fixer Agent analyzes the failed files and applies targeted fixes automatically. - Contributors.tsx – Removed an invalid throw statement, cleaned an empty if block, and fixed type assignments. - paths.ts – Changed BUILD_TEST type from number to string. ⚙️ How It Works - Detects a failed CI run in a pull request. - Reviews the error logs and identifies affected files. - Applies targeted fixes directly to the branch. - Posts a PR comment summarizing the issue, changes, and context. Code Context, Search, and Judgment At Optimal AI, we believe great code reviews require more than speed. They need understanding. That’s why Optibot is built on three foundations: Code Context Every review is grounded in your entire repository. Instead of treating a pull request as isolated text, Optibot considers dependencies, history, and team conventions. This results in feedback that feels relevant and avoids the false alarms that waste developer time. Code Search Large codebases can slow engineers down when they’re forced to hunt for patterns or past implementations. Optibot’s built-in search surfaces relevant references instantly, making it easy to see how similar challenges were solved and reducing duplicate work. Judgment Not all suggestions are equal. Optibot applies reasoning to separate critical issues—like security risks or performance bottlenecks—from minor style concerns. Developers stay focused on what matters most, without being overwhelmed by noise. By combining context, search, and judgment, Optimal AI transforms reviews into a high-leverage process: faster merges, stronger quality, and less cognitive overhead for engineering teams. Configuration File Fine-tune Optibot using a .optibot file in your repo root. { "reviews": { "auto": true, "autoApprove": true, "excludedLabels": ["do not review"] }, "dependencyBundler": { "enabled": true }, "summary": { "auto": true, "level": "basic" }, "guidelinesUrl": "https://github.com/your-org/your-guidelines.md", "enableCIFixer": true } Key Options - Auto Reviews & Summaries → always-on reviews/summaries - Exclude Labels → skip auto-generated PRs - Guidelines URL → enforce company coding standards - Dependency Bundler → consolidate PRs - CI Fixer → debug failed builds Why Optibot? ✅ Faster reviews ✅ Cleaner releases ✅ Built-in compliance ✅ Reduced PR clutter ✅ Smarter CI debugging Optibot acts as your 24/7 AI reviewer, helping teams ship secure, reliable, and well-documented code.

Last updated on Oct 13, 2025