reply-comments

name	reply-comments
description	Reply to PR review comments after addressing them. Resolves conversations where changes were made. Uses polite tone for humans, terse factual responses for AI bots.

Reply to Review Comments

Reply to PR review comments after addressing the feedback. Use this after /review-comments to close the feedback loop.

Usage

/reply-comments
/reply-comments 123    # Specific PR number

Instructions

1. Find the PR

If no PR number provided, get it from the current branch:

gh pr view --json number,url,title,headRepositoryOwner,headRepository \
  --jq '{number, url, title, owner: .headRepositoryOwner.login, repo: .headRepository.name}'

2. Fetch Review Comments

Get all review comments with their thread/resolution status:

# Get inline code review comments
gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{pr_number}/comments \
  --jq '.[] | {id, path, line, body, user: .user.login, in_reply_to_id, created_at}'

3. Get Recent Commits

Check what was recently committed to understand which comments were addressed:

# Get recent commit messages and changed files
git log --oneline -10
git diff HEAD~1 --name-only

4. Identify Addressed Comments

For each review comment, determine if it was addressed by:

• Checking if the file/line was modified in recent commits
• Matching commit messages to comment content (e.g., "address review feedback")
• Looking for code changes that match suggested fixes

5. Compose Replies

Use different tones based on the reviewer:

AI Bots (amazon-q-developer[bot], copilot[bot], github-actions[bot], etc.):

• Terse, factual responses
• Just state what was done
• Examples:
  • "Fixed."
  • "Done."
  • "Changed to use const."
  • "Added null check."
  • "Not applicable - already handled by X."

Human Reviewers (anyone without [bot] suffix):

• Short but polite responses
• Acknowledge their feedback
• Examples:
  • "Good catch, fixed!"
  • "Thanks - updated."
  • "Done, good suggestion."
  • "Makes sense, changed it."
  • "Addressed in latest commit."

For comments NOT addressed (intentionally skipped):

• "Keeping as-is because {brief reason}."
• "Intentional - {brief explanation}."

6. Post Replies

Reply to each comment:

gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{pr_number}/comments/{comment_id}/replies \
  -f body="{reply_text}"

7. Resolve Threads (if addressed)

Use GraphQL to resolve review threads where changes were made:

# First, get the thread ID for the comment
gh api graphql -f query='
  query($owner: String!, $repo: String!, $pr: Int!) {
    repository(owner: $owner, name: $repo) {
      pullRequest(number: $pr) {
        reviewThreads(first: 100) {
          nodes {
            id
            isResolved
            comments(first: 1) {
              nodes {
                databaseId
                body
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
' -f owner="{owner}" -f repo="{repo}" -F pr={pr_number}

# Then resolve each thread that was addressed
gh api graphql -f query='
  mutation($threadId: ID!) {
    resolveReviewThread(input: {threadId: $threadId}) {
      thread {
        isResolved
      }
    }
  }
' -f threadId="{thread_id}"

8. Summary

Report what was done:

Replied to 6 comments:
- amazon-q-developer[bot]: 3 (all resolved)
- @username: 2 (2 resolved, 1 kept as-is)
- copilot[bot]: 1 (resolved)