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GitHub AI agents for issues, reviews, and releases

Brainwrite connects GitHub to your AI agents so they can triage issues, review pull requests, read failing workflow runs, and draft release notes. A bot can label new issues, leave review comments on a diff, and tell you why a build failed from its logs. Merging a pull request waits for an approval card unless you've allowed it.

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Brainwrite · GitHub

List open pull requests in acme/web that have been waiting more than three days for review. For each, summarise the change in two sentences and note any failing checks.

You connect GitHub once. Your Chief of Staff puts a bot on it.

Create issues, comment on them, and add labels and assigneesWaits for you
List pull requests and read their changed files and commits
Create a pull request review with line commentsWaits for you
Merge a pull request (waits for an approval card unless you've allowed it)Waits for you
List workflow runs and download job logs for a failed run

An illustrated example. Actions that change something wait for your approval in Ask mode.

In GitHub

What your bots can do in GitHub.

Create issues, comment on them, and add labels and assignees
List pull requests and read their changed files and commits
Create a pull request review with line comments
Merge a pull request (waits for an approval card unless you've allowed it)
List workflow runs and download job logs for a failed run
Create a release and generate release notes
Search repositories, issues, and code

Ask your team · GitHub

List open pull requests in acme/web that have been waiting more than three days for review. For each, summarise the change in two sentences and note any failing checks.

Chief of Staff

Issue triage
First-pass PR review
Why did CI fail?

Changes in GitHub wait for your approval in Ask mode

Jobs

Jobs your team does with GitHub.

Issue triage

A routine reads new issues, adds labels, asks for missing reproduction steps in a comment, and lists anything that looks urgent.

First-pass PR review

A bot reads a pull request's diff and leaves review comments on risky changes, missing tests, and unclear names before a person reviews.

Why did CI fail?

A bot downloads the failing job's logs, finds the first real error, and points to the commit that likely caused it.

Release notes

A bot lists merged pull requests since the last tag and drafts release notes grouped by feature, fix, and chore.

Set up

How to connect GitHub.

01
Open Connected apps
In Brainwrite, choose Connected apps in the sidebar. The official app sets up the connection service for you; there's no key to paste.
02
Search for GitHub
Find GitHub and choose Connect. You can add more than one account later and label each, such as work or a client.
03
Sign in in your browser
Finish GitHub's own sign-in in your normal browser. The access token stays with the connection service and never enters a bot's prompt.
04
Choose which bots get it
In each bot's settings, give it all tools, an exact list, or none. Imported bots start with none, so nothing reaches your account by surprise.

The Apps catalog: Slack, GitHub, Gmail, Google Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Drive, Notion, Linear, Sentry, PostHog and Discord, each with Connect.

Put it to work

Use cases with GitHub.

Ready-made teams that use GitHub: Ship Software Safely.

FAQ

Brainwrite and GitHub: questions

How do I connect GitHub to Brainwrite?

Open Connected apps, search for GitHub, and choose Connect. GitHub's authorization page opens in your browser; approve access and return to Brainwrite. Tokens stay with Composio and are never put in a bot's prompt. You can connect a personal and a work GitHub account side by side, each with its own label.

Can I let a bot review pull requests but never merge them?

Yes. In the bot's settings under Connected apps, switch GitHub to an exact list of tools. Include the pull request read and review tools and leave out merge and branch tools. The merge tool is then never offered to that bot. Even when it is granted, a merge waits for an approval card unless you've allowed it.

Does the Engineering team in the team library use GitHub?

Yes. The Engineering team lists GitHub as an optional app, used to read repositories, issues, pull requests, and checks. When you add the team, its bots arrive with no app grants, so nothing touches GitHub until you connect it and grant tools to the bots you choose.

Can a bot also work on the code itself?

The GitHub connector works through GitHub's API: issues, reviews, workflow runs, releases. For editing and running code, give the bot a computer, such as a local VM or your own Linux server, and a working folder. Many teams use both: the computer for the change, GitHub tools for the pull request.

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