Guides

Babysit a pull request

Keep an agent told about failing checks, new review comments and conflicts.

Right-click a pull request in n10 Desktop's sidebar and choose Babysit pull request. n10 then watches it for failing CI, new review comments and conflicts, and hands them to the pull request's agent.

  • Batching. n10 waits until nothing new has arrived for ten minutes, or at most thirty minutes, then sends the updates together.
  • Idle gate. It sends only when the agent's terminal has been quiet for thirty seconds. That's a sign of idleness, not a guarantee: a long, quiet tool call or a permission prompt looks idle too.
  • No agent running. If the pull request has no live agent when an update is due, n10 checks out its branch and starts a new agent with the update.
  • Lifetime. Babysitting runs only while n10 Desktop is open with that repository active. Switching repositories pauses it, and it doesn't survive a restart: turn it on again after reopening n10.

Choose Stop babysitting from the same menu to end the watching and the automatic restarts.

Send review comments to an agent

Collect review comments into a plan and send them to your agent as one task.

Review pull requests in n10

Read, diff and review a pull request without leaving n10.