What It Takes to Automate a PR

So what you see today, this is more or less an how to and what what it takes to automate, it is not about how to because how to you can able to figure things out, but what it takes to automate, if you see it is not about you just provide a prompt and you are you do an automated run and you expect an output that is also possible when you are a startup with zero users, or when you are a startup where you can execute whatever you want and you can go fast and break things and you know first to capture market, then you are own immunity is very different, and then you can do like just prompt different features and go to market is your strategy, then it is okay. But when you are actually established in the market, product market fit is there, then most of the companies, like 80-90 percent of the company comes in this bracket where they are already making revenue, and they need to be very careful that they whatever they are releasing that need to be verified and that need to be maintainable. It is not that today I will release a feature and tomorrow I will scrap everything and create a new feature. You need to maintain that code base for longevity as well as in it need to serve a purpose. Then you will go for actual defined rules. What exactly it takes to automate my PR, and these are the things in Claude Code. What I you don't need to remember what is there inside Claude Code, but you need to remember what are all the things we have given. You need to provide a rule, you need to provide a skill playbook for your agents, coding agent, and you need to provide your hooks, and you need to have your verification gates, and you need to write your test in a way it it holds out test that able to verify that what is the final outcome that is needed. Is the agent able to provide that final outcome? If it is not providing that final outcome, it needs to have the agentic loop enough to provide that final outcome until verified, and then it can move a draft PR to PR for review, and then you can be very confident that okay, all my holdout tests are are good enough, and the human doesn't need to go line by line. Now they have a confidence that they have a list of details. Okay, this is what happened, this is what happened, and I was able to read the story. What exactly the execution has happened without even knowing what Claude has run or without watching yourself on the sandbox environment, but automatically on the PR level, you can read the almost like an executive summary, and you can able to make decision. Okay, this PR is done and it is following all our guidance rules, standards, and so on, and I can merge it. So that's what the playbook you need in order to automate your PR. It is very easy to automate your PRs, but very very hard to verify whether this is what you want.