How to Add AI Code Review to Your Repository in Fynix

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How to Get Started with AI-Powered Code Reviews for Your DevOps

GitHub is home to hundreds of thousands of open-source projects. But for the repository maintainers, it can be overwhelming to receive a constant stream of pull requests (PRs). Maintaining the code in a popular repository, dealing with reviews, and making sure the project is moving forward takes effort.A quick search for "has this been abandoned" on GitHub highlights the struggles maintainers undergo to keep up the repositories' activity and its maintenance.

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‍Pull requests (PRs) also play a prominent role in any healthy maintainer contributor relationship as they become the primary entry point of maintainers and contributors.At Fynix, we went through all this. As generative AI and code generation models evolved, we recognised that AI could elevate the code review process to an unprecedented level. So, we created Fynix Code Quality Agent—an AI-driven tool for the automation and streamlining of code reviews.Fynix also summarises the PRs concisely, alerts of possible issues, and offers valuable insights—helping repository maintainers and development teams do so without any unnecessary overhead.

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How Fynix Code Quality Agent Works

Curious how the Fynix Code Quality Agent can enhance your workflow? Here's how it works:The Fynix seamlessly integrates with GitHub, GitLab, and self-hosted repositories. It starts the automated code review process the moment a pull request comes into existence. It then:

Preprocesses PR content

Builds contextual understanding

Uses AI to analyze the code

Post-processing AI-generated insights

Posts review feedback directly on GitHub

This way, the code reviews will be comprehensive, automated, and efficient without a lot of manual intervention.

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GitHub Integration

Access Fynix Code Quality AgentGo to the Fynix login page and select your desired Git provider: GitHub, GitLab, or Self-hosted GitHub/GitLab

AuthorizationOnce you have chosen your Git platform, you will be asked to authorize Fynix Code Quality Agent. This is to ensure that the tool has the right permissions to scan your repositories and PRs

Choosing Your OrganizationIf you are part of several organisations, you can choose which organisation you would like to link with Fynix

The Fynix DashboardOnce authorised, you will be able to access the Fynix dashboard, where you can add repositories and configure review settings

Setting up Fynix Code Quality AgentOnce configured, Fynix will automatically start reviewing PRs, analyzing changes, and giving feedback based on your setup

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Sample PR Review Workflow Using Fynix

When a PR is created, Fynix automatically:

Generates a summary of changes

Highlights potential issues

Provides suggestions for improvement

Sample PR Review

For instance, in a PR that switched the language model from LLaMA 2 to LLaMA 3, Fynix:

Found key differences

Raised potential problems

Commented upon possible improvements with insightful advice

Fynix also gives you the opportunity to communicate with the AI reviewer by discussing the proposed patch, requesting code sequence diagrams, and inquiring about potential ways of optimizing

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Customizing Instructions for Code Review

Customize review criteria according to your organization's coding guidelines and get the AI to enforce best practices beyond the default review process.Whether you manage a large open-source project or work on internal repositories, Fynix Code Quality Agent can help you automate and improve your code review.

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