Observed arrival · 2026-10-11
gh bouncer: a pull-request gate
A GitHub CLI extension that asks outside contributors to run an AI review of their pull request in their own GitHub Actions workflow before maintainers review it.
- For
- Maintainers of repositories accepting outside pull requests
- Worth noticing
- The page says only the earliest review of a commit counts; its example also shows three review attempts and signed workflow output.
Field notes
The illustrated flow begins with an outside PR held as a draft; a bot tells its author to run `gh bouncer`, which configures the contributor’s fork and stores the API key there. The sample Actions sequence checks out the PR read-only, runs review against repository rules, then signs and posts a verdict. The page says only the earliest review of a commit counts, and shows duplicate detection and a nonexistent-method finding as bounce reasons.
Observed signals
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