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Pull Request Risk Score

Score each PR for risk so reviewers focus where it matters.

Intermediate16h1–2 people18/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Pull Request Risk Score for engineering teams in ~16h with 1–2 people. Stack: GitHub API + Node.js + LLM.

Why it wins: Directly useful for every team.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Reviewers spend equal time on trivial and dangerous changes.
02 · Solution
Combine diff size, touched hot files, test coverage changes and ownership into a risk score with an LLM summary posted on the PR.
03 · Build
  1. 1Fetch PR data
  2. 2Compute factors
  3. 3Summarise
  4. 4Post comment
04 · Demo
Open a PR touching payment code and show a high-risk comment.

MVP checklist

  • Risk factors
  • PR comment
  • Reviewer suggestions
  • Trends

Tech stack

TechRole
GitHub APIRepo + PR data
Node.jsBackend runtime
LLMLanguage model

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