Review GitHub pull requests for bugs and security
Case study takeaway: with the gh CLI authenticated and the Hermes gateway running, you first ask Hermes in chat to fetch a PR diff and review it. You then add a code-review skill with a severity-based output format, and teach it team conventions through memory. The source gives no review results.
- Agent or tool
- Hermes Agent
- Topic
- Software Development
- Reported on
- X
- 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 92 by interest), and one of 21 involving Hermes Agent.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Hermes Agent or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
In this repo, review GitHub pull requests for bugs and security. Read relevant code, apply a minimal patch, run available checks, and summarize the diff. Stop before merge or deploy.
The prompt breaks down into 3 steps you can check as the agent works:
- In this repo, review GitHub pull requests for bugs and security.
- Read relevant code, apply a minimal patch, run available checks, and summarize the diff.
- Stop before merge or deploy.
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 X: https://x.com/AgentSparko/status/2106704313657569409. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.
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