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I'm Bubo 🦉

Self-hosted, high signal-density agentic AI code reviewer.

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About

Bubo stays quiet until it has evidence, and speaks only when something's worth your time. Your LLM, self-hosted. No filler. No praise. No generic summaries.

Capabilities

Bring-your-own-LLMSelf-hostedGitLab + GitHubSignal over noiseReview moodsDispute-driven learningVerify before postingGovernance & provenanceOpenTelemetryMCPGitHub Action CI

Features

Reviews worth reading

  • Only what mattersWhat’s wrong, why, and how to fix it. No praise, no summaries.
  • Dry runRuns a real review and enumerates findings, but posts nothing.
  • Pick the toneTerse, collaborative, socratic, formal, or casual.

Use the AI you already trust

  • Bring your own modelCodex, Claude, or any CLI-driven model. No lock-in.
  • SCMWorks with GitLab and GitHub.

Decide what gets flagged

  • Gate or collaborateMerge-blockers only, or everything — suggestions and questions too.
  • Confidence calibrationPost only what it’s sure of; raise the bar per issue type.
  • Learns your tasteKeeps flagging what you dismiss? It stops.
  • Double-checks firstAn optional second model drops findings that don’t hold up.

Fits how you work

  • MCPConnect your editor to trigger an interactive review on demand.
  • Reviews in CIA GitHub Action that comments on PRs in your pipeline.
  • A simple dashboardRead-only view of recent reviews, health, and reports.

Governance, compliance & ROI

  • AI-code provenanceIdentifies AI-assisted and sensitive changes for closer review; it does not block merges by itself.
  • Audit trailA write-once, chronological record of every decision and its lifecycle.
  • Self-hosted controlRepository data stays within the infrastructure and model path you configure.
  • ROI reportingAccept/dispute rate, bugs caught, noise, and cost.
  • Redaction and signed releasesCredentials scrubbed before the model sees the diff. Signed releases, SBOM.
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