I don’t think “ready to merge” necessarily means the agent actually merges. Just that it’s gone as far as it can automatically. It’s up to you whether to review at that point or merge, depending on the project and the stakes.
If there are CI failures or obvious issues that another AI can identify, why not have the agent keep going until those are resolved? This tool just makes that process more token efficient. Seems pretty useful to me.
This tool seems agent-oriented for them to merge, rather merely check readiness. In that regard, the page doesn't mention anything about human reviewers, only AI reviewers. Honestly wouldn't be surprised if author, someone seemingly running fully agentic workflows, didn't even consider human reviewers. If it's AI start-to-end*, then yes, quite possibly could push directly to master without much difference.
Call me pessimistic, and considering [1][2][3] (and other similar articles/discussions), believe this tool will be most useful to AI PR spammers the moment is modified to also parse non-AI PR comments.
*Random question: is it start-to-end or end-to-end?
edit: P.S. Agree that it's useful, given its design goals, tool though.
If there are CI failures or obvious issues that another AI can identify, why not have the agent keep going until those are resolved? This tool just makes that process more token efficient. Seems pretty useful to me.