Changelog

What’s New?

Kody Rules

We’ve merged the functionalities of Style Guide and Path Instructions into a unified, powerful feature: Kody Rules. This new structure makes it easier than ever to create customized instructions for your repositories. Here’s what you need to know:

• All existing settings from Style Guide have been seamlessly migrated to Kody Rules.
• You can now define clear, repository-specific guidelines and file-specific instructions directly within the Kody Rules panel.
• Simplified configuration ensures faster setup and greater customization flexibility.

Severity Level Filtering

We’ve introduced a severity-level filter to give you greater control over Kody’s suggestions. Teams can now:

• Set a minimum severity level (e.g., High or Critical) for suggestions.
• Focus on the issues that matter most while reducing noise from stylistic or low-impact suggestions.

Quality Pipeline Improvements

Our quality pipeline has been upgraded to ensure a sharper, more relevant review process. Key improvements include:

• Avoiding irrelevant suggestions: Kody now skips suggestions for parts of the code that haven’t been modified.
• No stylistic-only suggestions: Feedback that doesn’t lead to meaningful improvements is automatically filtered out.
• Breakage prevention: Suggestions that could introduce errors or instability are flagged or removed entirely.

New Features and Enhancements

Configurable Limits on Code Suggestions

You asked, we delivered. Now you can choose how suggestions are limited:

• Limit suggestions by file or by entire PR—flexibility for your workflow.
• Suggestions are prioritized by a severity level, ensuring the most critical ones surface first.
• Security-related suggestions always rank at the top.

Improved Prompt Quality

We’ve tuned the internal prompt logic, resulting in:

• More concise and higher-quality PR comments.
• Summarization now focuses more clearly on the core changes, making it easier to understand the PR at a glance.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug causing duplicate reviews to appear after subsequent commits were pushed to a PR.
• Addressed performance issues related to summarization and suggestion generation, ensuring the solution stays within GitHub’s limits.

Rollback of GitHub UI Commit Feature

• Removed the one-click commit suggestion feature directly from GitHub’s UI due to reliability concerns and risk of breaking the application.

Acknowledgments

A heartfelt thank you to the amazing teams at Brendi, Sync, Solomon, Doji and eSolution. Your thoughtful feedback and insights help shape Kody’s journey, and we’re grateful for your ongoing support. 💜

New Features and Enhancements

New Repository-Level Configuration Screen

More freedom to customize Kody to fit your needs:

• Choose your team’s style guide.
• Set specific rules by path.
• Enable or disable Code Review as needed.
• All configurations are now managed at the repository level.

PR Summarization Customization

Who really read those giant summaries from Kody? We didn’t.

• Use the advanced prompt to tailor exactly what you want in the summary.
• Now you can merge your team’s information with Kody’s summary. No more losing important details.

One-Click Commit for Suggestions

Liked Kody’s suggestion? Resolve it in one click!

• The “Commit Suggestion” button makes a commit directly from the Git UI. It feels like magic, but it’s Kody.

Feedback on Kody Suggestions

Kody doesn’t always get it right, and that’s okay.

• You can now give upvotes or downvotes on suggestions.
• While it doesn’t change anything yet, we’re working on cool features to use this feedback.

Bug Fixes

• Adjustments to DORA Metrics generation.
• Fixed performance issues in Code Review that caused GitHub limits to be exceeded.
• Resolved bugs in the registration process.

Acknowledgments

A big thank you to the teams at Brendi, Sync, Solomon, and eSolution for your amazing feedback over the past few weeks! You make Kody better. 💜

Improvements and New Features

New charts for efficiency and delivery capacity analysis

• Flow Efficiency: Easily visualize workflow efficiency with horizontal bar charts.
• Delivery Capacity: Compare new and completed items with line charts, now with customizable filters.
• Filters by item type: Filter lead time and throughput by item type, enabling even more precise analyses.

More customization for Code Review

• Add your team’s style guide to ensure all code changes follow your standards.
• Set advanced rules for specific file types, like mandatory patterns for .ts files.

Fixes

• Improved compatibility with GitLab Self-hosted.
• Fixed estimation tools and model usage in conversations.
• UX improvements for a smoother navigation experience.

Improvements and New Features

Chat with Kody in Your Git Tool

Now, when Kody reviews a PR, you can interact with her directly to better understand the suggestions or dive deeper into the details.

Executive Check-in

We have a new automation! You can now enable the executive check-in to receive a complete summary of all your teams every Monday.

New Configuration Options

You now have full control over the alerts generated by Kody and can customize the type of communication she provides.

Fixes

• UX improvements and text corrections.

Improvements and Updates

Revamped Check-ins [Beta]

We’ve launched a completely revamped version of check-ins with two major improvements:

Custom Days, Times, and Sections

You now have full control over when and how your check-ins happen. Set the day, time, and choose which sections will appear in each check-in, making it much more aligned with your team’s reality.

Item Silencing

Already aware of a delayed task, but can’t focus on it right now? No problem! You can now silence items that aren’t a priority at the moment, whether they’re delayed tasks or team alerts. Plus, Kody will automatically silence items when check-ins become too repetitive.

Configurations for Automatic Code Review

We’ve enhanced the configuration options for Kody’s Code Review, making it more aligned with your workflow. You can now:

• Limit suggestions per modified file;
• Exclude PRs based on specific tags;
• Select branches, in addition to the default, for Kody to review.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the data analysis tool;
• Resolved the formatting bug on Slack;
• Fixed the bug where Kody would respond when @here or @everyone were mentioned on Discord.

Removals

• Temporarily paused all task improvement automations, as they’re currently more disruptive than helpful;
• Removed two team alerts: items without a clear description and new bugs in WIP, based on feedback that they weren’t adding value.