Comment on a pull request to steer the bee
Mentioning the bot on a bee-created PR resumes the original run; mentions on other PRs start runs that know the PR, and inline review comments now work.
After this entry you'll know that a PR comment is now a first-class way to talk to the swarm. Mention the bot on a pull request a bee created ("make the comments more elaborate") and it resumes the run that opened that PR, with all of its context, and pushes the changes to the same PR. Previously that comment started a brand-new run that knew nothing about the PR and could wander off across the whole repo.
What changes for you
- On a bee's own PR: your comment continues the original run. The bee already knows the ticket, the branch and what it did, so "tighten this up" means what you think it means.
- On any other PR: mentioning the bot starts a fresh run that arrives knowing the PR's number, branch, description and discussion. It checks out the PR's branch, reads the conversation first, and pushes to that same branch instead of cutting a new one.
- Inline review comments now work. You can mention the bot on a specific line in a review and it receives the file and line you commented on, not just the text.
As always, the bee only pushes commits for a human to review; nothing merges itself. See working from GitHub for the details.
DM the swarm, pin a project, send several tickets at once
Slack DMs are now a full conversational surface, one message can fan out into up to five runs, and shorthand repo names resolve correctly.
See what a run is doing while it runs
Live activity in the run view, a heartbeat on every running job, and automatic stall detection with an ops alert.