Building a better Bugbot

kept by eddie jan 19

Cursor improved Bugbot's bug-finding rate by defining a custom AI-driven resolution rate metric that enabled systematic hill-climbing experiments, raising resolution from 52% to over 70% and doubling resolved bugs per PR to roughly 0.5.

Build agents that run automatically
Cursor Automations let developers create always-on agents triggered by events (Slack, Linear, GitHub, PagerDuty, webhooks) to automate code review, monitoring, and maintenance tasks.
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agent-skills/skills/autoreview/SKILL.md at main · openclaw/agent-skills
The piece defines a structured pre-commit code review skill for AI agents, specifying contracts, scope governance, and engine isolation across multiple review engines including Codex, Claude, and others.
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Using AI to write better code more slowly
Using multiple LLMs for rigorous code review and bug finding can produce higher-quality code than the common fast-output approach, though it slows development velocity.
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