The Coderbuds Slack bot is more than notifications — it's a conversational AI coach that understands your team's engineering data. Send it a direct message in Slack and ask questions in plain English about your team's performance, individual metrics, work item progress, and more.
How It Works
1. Message the Bot
Send a direct message to @Coderbuds in Slack with any question about your team.
2. AI Analyzes Data
The bot queries your team's real-time metrics, insights, and DORA data to find the answer.
3. Get Actionable Answers
Receive concise, conversational responses with data-backed recommendations.
What You Can Ask
Just type naturally — the bot understands context and can follow up on previous questions. Here are some examples grouped by category:
Insights & Coaching
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"What new insights do I have?"
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"Show me performance insights"
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"Give me coaching on code review best practices"
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"What quick wins do we have right now?"
Team Health & Wellbeing
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"How's the team doing overall?"
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"Is anyone at risk of burnout?"
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"Show me our SPACE framework overview"
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"Who's completed their satisfaction survey?"
Performance & Metrics
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"Show me our DORA metrics"
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"How am I doing this month?"
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"What's @alice's code quality trend?"
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"Show me the team activity leaderboard for the last 7 days"
Work Item Tracking
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"How's the login epic going?"
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"What shipped this sprint?"
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"Which initiatives have gone quiet?"
Daily Insight Digests
When enabled, the Coderbuds bot sends you a daily DM each morning with up to 5 unseen insights from your team's latest analysis. No need to check the dashboard — the most important recommendations come to you.
Morning Delivery
Digests arrive between 8–10 AM in your local timezone (detected from your Slack profile).
Interactive Buttons
Each insight comes with quick action buttons: Tell me more, Mark done, and Get coaching — respond without leaving Slack.
Weekly Follow-ups
Actionable insights that haven't been addressed after 7 days get a gentle nudge to keep improvements on track.
Full Capabilities
The AI Coach can access over 20 data sources to answer your questions:
Insights Management
- View unseen insights
- Filter by category (activity, performance, collaboration, satisfaction)
- Get detailed context on specific insights
- Mark insights as seen or done
- Provide thumbs up/down feedback
Team Overview
- SPACE framework summary across all 5 dimensions
- Team activity leaderboard
- Wellbeing and burnout risk assessment
- Satisfaction survey completion tracking
Individual Metrics
- PRs created, merged, and open
- Reviews given
- Code quality score and trends
- Activity status and last activity
DORA Metrics
- Deployment frequency with benchmark category
- Lead time for changes
- Change failure rate
- Mean time to recovery
Work Item Tracking
- Jira epic and Linear project progress
- PR activity grouped by initiative
- Stale initiative detection
- Coverage percentage (linked vs unlinked PRs)
Coaching & Quick Wins
- Coaching advice on best practices
- Stale PRs needing attention
- Oversized PRs to split
- Unreviewed PRs waiting too long
Getting Started
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Connect Slack
If you haven't already, connect your Slack workspace via Team Settings.
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Link Your Slack Account
Make sure your Slack user is linked to your Coderbuds account in Team Settings → Members.
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Message the Bot
Open a direct message with @Coderbuds in Slack and start asking questions.
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Enable Daily Digests (Optional)
Turn on insight digests in your team's notification settings to receive proactive daily summaries.
The bot remembers context
Conversations are maintained for 24 hours, so you can ask follow-up questions like "Tell me more about that" or "What about @bob?" without repeating yourself.