Let coding agents review PRs without giving them unrestricted merge access
Blog post from WorkOS
Coding agents can reduce pull-request workload but require tightly scoped GitHub credentials to prevent review access from becoming unintended merge authority. For review tasks, GitHub App or fine-grained personal access tokens should provide only repository contents read access and pull-request write access, while merge-capable credentials, including other authenticated tools in the shell environment, should be isolated. Airlock, available in early access, can govern explicitly assigned merge actions by checking them against an agent’s task and organizational policies, requiring human approval where appropriate and applying conditions such as passing CI, approved reviews, limited change scope, and code-owner sign-off for sensitive areas. GitHub’s own branch protections, required checks, and review requirements should remain active without agent bypasses. To ensure approved code is the code merged, stale reviews should be dismissed after new commits, and merge requests should include the reviewed head commit SHA so GitHub rejects attempts to merge changed pull requests with a conflict, requiring the agent to review the updated revision again.
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