Agentic codeowners that assign reviewers
An automation classifies PR risk, auto-approves low-risk changes, and assigns up to two reviewers for higher-risk work based on contribution history.
- Agent or tool
- Cursor
- Topic
- Software Development
- Reported on
- Blog
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
Coding agents are moving from autocomplete to doing whole tasks: reading a codebase, making a plan and changing many files. This case is a concrete example of where that works in practice. It is one of 106 sightings filed under Software Development on Agent Sightings (number 55 by interest), and one of 30 involving Cursor.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Cursor or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
On PR open, classify risk by blast radius, complexity and infra impact. Auto-approve low risk. For higher risk, assign up to two reviewers from contribution history and log the decision.
The prompt breaks down into 3 steps you can check as the agent works:
- On PR open, classify risk by blast radius, complexity and infra impact.
- Auto-approve low risk.
- For higher risk, assign up to two reviewers from contribution history and log the decision.
Tip: Work on a fresh branch, ask for a plan before edits, and review the diff and test results before merging.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Blog: https://cursor.com/blog/automations. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.
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