The Developer’s Guide to the Agentic Git Forge: Merge at Agent Speed

Coding agents can open changes faster than any team can review them. The pull request was designed for humans reviewing humans: one diff, a few comments, a reviewer who knows the author. When an agent pushes dozens of changes a day, that model breaks, and review becomes the bottleneck between “the agent wrote it” and “it’s in production.” Teams feel it in three ways:

Diffs don’t explain themselves. Reviewers see what changed but not why. The prompts, decisions, and dead ends behind agent-generated code are missing from the review. Review doesn’t scale with output. Agents push continuously, but human attention doesn’t. Teams either rubber-stamp changes or let them pile up. Merging feels like a leap of faith. Without a clear signal that a change works and fits the codebase, every merge depends on a reviewer’s gut feeling.