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AI writes most of my code now, and that created a new problem: a PR queue I couldn’t keep up with. In this episode, I walk through how I built Merge Mommy, a Vercel Eve agent that reads every PR after checks pass, scores it across six risk dimensions, auto-approves the low-risk ones, and pings me in Slack for anything that needs a human. I built the whole thing in one Codex session, it’s SOC 2 compatible, and it’s already cleared my backlog.
What you’ll learn:
• Why AI-generated PRs create a review bottleneck and why the answer isn’t reviewing all of them
• How Intercom 5x’d PR approval speed and reduced revert rates by putting AI in the review loop
• Why Vercel Eve is the simplest framework I’ve found for deploying AI agents in Slack and GitHub
• How I built a full PR review agent in Codex with one prompt and a few steering turns
• The six components I use to score PR risk (blast radius, reversibility, data security, ops impact, verification gap, and change surface)
• How I used Chrome browser use to handle Slack bot and GitHub app configuration so I never had to click through setup screens manually
• Why auto-approved PRs can be SOC 2 compliant as long as the process is auditable, queryable, and in your risk policy
• How to set up Slack escalation so low-risk PRs become a two-click merge with no manual review
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In this episode, we cover:
() The PR review backlog problem nobody’s talking about
() Why you don’t have to review every AI-generated PR
() How Intercom built AI-approved PRs (and proved they’re safer)
() How the Eve framework works (directory, skills, channels, connectors)
() The Codex prompt I used to build the entire bot
() What the agent actually does: read, score, approve, or escalate
() Setting up your Eve agent
() The six-component risk scoring model
() Merge Mommy in action: three live PR examples
() Recap and how to build your own version
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Tools referenced:
• Vercel Eve: vercel.com/eve
• Vercel AI SDK: sdk.vercel.ai
• Vercel Chat SDK: chat-sdk.dev
• Codex (OpenAI): openai.com/codex
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Other references:
• AI is approving our pull requests: Here’s how we made it safe:intercom.com/blog/ai-is-approving-our-pull-req…
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Where to find Claire Vo:
ChatPRD: chatprd.ai
Website: clairevo.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/clairevo
X: x.com/clairevo
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