Changelog

Improvements and New Features

Cockpit V2

Cockpit V2 is here to streamline your view of all the metrics that help you understand your team’s performance and quality. Built on key DORA metrics, you can now track your team’s velocity, throughput, bug ratio, and PR size on a month-to-month basis. Plus, the new Code Health tab lets you quickly review the top categories of Kody’s suggestions over a selected period.

👀 Note: The cockpit is still in beta and may experience some instability.

Repository Config UX Improvements

Improvements and New Features

kodus-config.yml Support

You can now configure Kody directly through the kodus-config.yml file in your repository. This keeps your code review preferences versioned with your code while still allowing web-based configurations when needed.

• Global and per-repo rules remain in effect.
• Easily export web configs to the YAML file.
• The pipeline is built to handle new configurations without breaking anything.

By default, the file overrides web settings if detected, but you can revert this anytime.

Bitbucket Integration 💙

Kodus now supports Bitbucket, bringing automated code reviews to your repositories on the platform.

New Features and Enhancements

Kody Rules Library

Introducing a curated library of Kody Rules! We’ve compiled best practices from leading teams to help you ensure quality, security, and performance in your codebase.

Now you can browse, pick, and apply these ready-to-use rules to streamline your team’s code reviews.

Automatic Pull Request Merging

Kody now offers the ability to automatically merge branches when no issues are detected during a review. If Kody has no suggestions, your pull request will be merged automatically—saving you time and effort.

Improvements and Fixes

Minor fixes and optimizations in Kody Rules and the review process to enhance performance and usability.

New Features and Enhancements

Grouped Comments

Less clutter, more efficiency! Kody now groups similar comments within the same PR. If the same issue appears in multiple places, instead of flooding your review with repetitive notifications, Kody consolidates them into a single, well-organized comment. More focus, less noise.

Expanded Language Support

Kody now understands 17 new languages! Whether it’s Japanese, French, Arabic, Chinese, Italian, or any of the other newly supported languages, your team can now benefit from more precise and contextual code reviews.

Categorized Suggestions

Each suggestion now comes with a category label! Performance, security, readability, and more – making it easier to filter suggestions and fine-tune Kody’s rules to match your team’s real needs.

Bug Fixes

• Better organization: Comments are now grouped by file, making navigation more intuitive.
• Faster analysis: Kody now automatically ignores irrelevant files for review, improving processing time.
• Reduced waiting time: Implemented prompt caching to further speed up the process.

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. 💜