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Dora 9:12 AM

@Coderbuds what's slowing us down?

Coderbuds APP 9:12 AM

Changes wait longest before anyone reviews them: a median of 19h, and Sam submitted 64% of the reviews.

Give every new pull request a named reviewer and a review window.

Alex's coding agent

❯ open the pull request

⚙ request-pull-request-review-tool

#418 Fix the digest timezone

Next in the rotation: Maria. Asked in #engineering.

✓ opened with a named reviewer

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Turing Labs
# engineering 7 members · Coderbuds connected

Coderbuds APP 08:31

🔔 turing/api #1039: Retry failed Stripe webhooks by @alex → @priya
✅ 1

Coderbuds APP 09:12

🔔 turing/api #1043: Meter usage events at checkout by @maria → @sam ✅ 1
09:12
🔔 turing/api #1044: Bill per-seat overages from metered usage by @maria → @alex ✅ 1

Coderbuds APP 14:10

Agent nudges
@alex Friendly reminder: PR #1044 "Bill per-seat overages from metered usage" in api has been waiting for review for 5 hours.

Coderbuds APP 16:25

🚀 api — 3 pull requests deployed to production

Shipped in 9f3c2ab · deployed by Maria

Maria 16:31

@Coderbuds how are we tracking this week?

Coderbuds APP 16:31

This week: 23 merged, 31 reviews, avg quality 86/100 — and 3 pull requests reached production today.

Maria 16:33

@Coderbuds anything stale I should chase?

Coderbuds APP 16:33

⚡ Quick Wins

Close or Merge Stale PRs
Action: Review stale PRs and either merge, close, or request updates

• #1021: Cache tenant feature flags by @alex (5 days stale)
• #1009: Backfill invoice line items by @sam (4 days stale)

github.com/turing/api/pull/1043

Meter usage events at checkout #1043

Open maria wants to merge 2 commits into main from usage-billing-meter
Conversation Files changed +152 −27

coderbuds bot commented just now

🎯 Elite quality (92%) — Tight, focused change; the metering stays out of the controller.

📦 Medium, trimmed to fit before opening — cut from 645 lines to 179.

🤖 Written by Claude Code — a person approved each edit.

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Overview

How delivery and team health are trending

7D 30D 90D 12M
Today

●Opened Today

2 pull requests

●In review Now

6 pull requests

●Ready Now

0 pull requests

●Deployed Today

3 deploys

Delivery vs previous 30 days ⚡ 7 agents on

Opened

179 ↗ +12%

Merged

164 ↗ +9%

Deploys

121 ↗ +31%

Bottleneck

7h

Merged, waiting for a deploy

DORA

Elite

Issue → pull request → production

Commit In production
2d 4h
5h
3h
2h
7h
6m

In the backlog

Being written

Waiting for review

In review

Waiting to deploy

Deploying

Evidence, contributing factors and blind spots

See what is holding it up →
Team vs previous 30 days

Contributors

7

Reviews

131

Code quality

88/100

Participation

100%

Satisfaction

3.6/5

Less More activity in a day MergedReviewsDeploys
Maria 26 24 9
S Sam 18 31 4
A Alex 21 17 5
P Priya 14 22 3

Maria Santos Elite 91

@maria

7D 30D 90D 12M

Delivery

29 pull requests opened, 24 reviews given, 9 deploys

Last 30 days · vs previous period

Pull requests

29 ↗ +8%

Team avg 21.4

Time to merge

4h

26/29 merged · team 5h

Reviews given

24

Team avg 18.7

Code quality

91/100

Elite · team 88

Median PR size

182 lines

Medium · team 240

Deploys

9

Team 121

Team averages are across the 7 people active in this period. All 29 pull requests →

What they worked on

Pull requests opened, by kind of change and repository

Last 30 days
What

11 features 8 chores 6 fixes 4 doc updates

Where

18 turing/api 7 turing/web 4 turing/infra

turing/api — claude

Claude Code v2.1.220
Fable 5 · Claude Team
~/…/Sites/turing/api

> add usage-based billing to checkout so we can meter per-seat overages

⏺ get-team-context

⎿ 7 repos · conventions · playbooks: pr-description, +4

✻ Drafted 645 lines across 12 files

⏺ assess-change-fit

⎿ verdict: caution — over your team's 400-line limit

changes this size take ~5× longer to merge

✻ Splitting into 2 pull requests…

● high · /effort

❯

⏵⏵ auto mode on (shift+tab to cycle) · PR #3253

Your standards, checked before the pull request opens.

Every pull request, review and deploy makes the next session smarter.

Understand the team.
Improve the work.

For engineering leads

See what's healthy, and what isn't.

How the work ships and who is carrying it, down to the pull requests behind each number.

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Today
3 8 2 4
Delivery vs previous 30 days

Opened

179

Merged

164

Deploys

121

Bottleneck

7h

DORA

Elite

Team vs previous 30 days

Contributors

7

Reviews

131

Quality

88/100

Satisfaction

3.6/5

Merged Reviews
MA Maria 26 24
SB Sam 18 31
AK Alex 21 17
PR Priya 14 22

For engineers and their agents

Guidance before review.

Your coding agent starts with the team's context and checks its change while that can still prevent rework.

Connect your coding agent
claude code · cursor · codex

❯ add rate limiting to the webhook endpoint

⚙ get-team-context-tool

7 repos · hub depends_on sdk, docs documents hub

conventions · deploys Tue/Thu · squash merges

playbooks · pr-description, migration-safety, +3

⚙ assess-change-fit-tool

+412 −233 across 6 files

✓ fits · median PR here is 240 lines

expect ~8h to merge · 3 PRs in the queue

✓ ready — no re-explaining, no rewrite in review

Speaks up where your team already talks.

Coderbuds watches every pull request, review and deploy, and says so in Slack when something needs a person. Nobody has to go and look.

No pull request waits in silence.

When a review stalls, the team channel hears about it by name and in the open, so nobody has to be the one chasing.

#engineering
Coderbuds APP 10:02 AM

Agent nudges

@Sam Friendly reminder: PR #412 "Rate-limit the webhook endpoint" in api has been waiting for review for 2 days.

Merged isn't shipped.

Work that is merged but not yet in production gets a queue in the channel, with a Deploy button wherever you have set up a deploy trigger.

#deploys
Coderbuds APP 3:18 PM

api — 3 pull requests ready to deploy

  • • #412 Rate-limit the webhook endpoint — @Maria
  • • #415 Retry failed Stripe events — @Sam
  • • #418 Fix the digest timezone — @Alex

Merged to main and awaiting a production deployment.

Deploy to production

Monday, in one message.

Where work waits longest, whether that is getting better, and who carried the reviews. It is the brief every new team starts on.

#engineering
Coderbuds APP Monday 9:00 AM

Weekly pulse

Your bottleneck is time to first review. Current avg: 19h (was 31h last period).

Weekly recognition highlights:
Sam: 14 reviews completed, reviewed 3 PRs from new team members
Maria: 11 reviews completed, fast reviewer (avg 42min turnaround)

Ask it anything.

Mention @Coderbuds in Slack. It answers from your team's own pull requests, reviews and deploys, not from a guess.

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Dora 4:47 PM

@Coderbuds what did we ship this week?

Coderbuds APP 4:47 PM

14 pull requests reached production, up from 11 last week. Most of it was the Stripe retry work on api, led by Maria.

2 more are merged and still waiting for a deploy.

You decide how loud it is.

New teams start on a weekly brief. Turn it up when you trust it, or pause it in one click. Anything higher-impact still asks first.

Measure the delivery loop without sending or proposing follow-up.

Show the follow-ups Coderbuds would recommend in Agents. Nothing is sent.

Where you start Post one combined Monday summary to the configured team Slack channel. No individual nudges.

Message people visibly in the team channel. Never send private nudges; higher-impact acts still ask first.

Message people privately and in the team channel when useful. Higher-impact acts still ask first.

Six months from now

Leadership asks what changed delivery. You have a clear answer.

Not a demo or a list of tools. One slide showing lead time down 75%, deployments up 20× and DORA Elite performance — backed by the work your team actually shipped.

This isn't hypothetical. Patchstack did it.

Security Platform • 12 Engineers
GitHub & BitBucket

Lead Time

~4 days

Before

~1 day

75% faster

Deploys

Bi-weekly

Stressful

Daily

20x more

DORA

None

Guessing

Elite

Top tier

Dave Jong
"Now I walk into leadership meetings with data, not guesswork — and the team finally knows what 'good' looks like."

Dave Jong

CTO, Patchstack

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Frequently asked questions

What can Coderbuds show me about my team?
Coderbuds brings delivery, collaboration, and team-health signals into one place. You can see lead time, deployment frequency, review delays, pull request patterns, satisfaction trends, and how those measures change over time. Every metric links back to the work behind it, so you can understand what changed instead of guessing.
Do we need to use coding agents?
No. Connect GitHub or Bitbucket and Coderbuds can give you delivery and team-performance insights without any coding-agent setup. If your engineers do use coding agents, Coderbuds can also turn what the team learns into shared guidance inside those sessions.
Why not just put our standards in a CLAUDE.md file?
Start with one — it is the right first step, and we use rules files ourselves. What they cannot do is stay true. A rules file lives in one repo, so it drifts as the code moves and gets copied again for each agent vendor. It loads on every session whether it is relevant or not, and it never tells you which rules actually helped. Coderbuds serves the same standards to any agent across every repo, sends only what a session needs, and measures whether following them made the team faster. Compare Coderbuds with repository context files
Is this a surveillance tool for tracking engineers?
Coderbuds is designed to improve how a team works, not to rank people. Engineering managers and team leads can see some individual delivery data, such as pull request activity. Engineers can see the same data about themselves, and coaching is shown to them first. Satisfaction surveys are anonymous and only reported at team level.
Are you just another DORA dashboard?
No. DORA metrics are one part of Coderbuds. The dashboard shows where delivery is slowing down, while the Coderbuds AI Agent provides tools for checking changes, following up reviews, and monitoring deployments. It then tracks whether those actions helped.
Do you store our code?
No. Your source code stays in GitHub or Bitbucket. Coderbuds stores only the delivery metadata it needs, such as pull request titles, timestamps, and statistics.
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