Agent SDK Automation

CI/CD Integrations

Adding the Autohand Code Agent SDK to CI/CD pipelines turns pull requests and commits into automated review, test, and deployment tasks.

Common pipeline tasks

  • Review pull requests and post comments.
  • Generate or update tests for changed files.
  • Validate migrations, configuration, and documentation.
  • Build release notes from commit history.

GitHub Actions example

The following workflow starts an agent on every pull request and posts a review summary.

Security in CI

  • Run agents in ephemeral containers with minimal permissions.
  • Use read-only file systems when possible.
  • Never expose AUTOHAND_API_KEY in logs.
  • Require human approval before the agent can push or deploy.

Best practices

  • Keep pipeline agents focused on a single task. Long, open-ended prompts are harder to debug.
  • Exit with a non-zero status only when the agent found a blocking issue.
  • Cache the Autohand CLI and dependencies between runs.
  • Store agent output as artifacts so developers can inspect it.