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AI is approving our pull requests: Here’s how we made it safe

Not a pilot. Intercom deployed AI agents to approve production code across engineering.

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Why it matters

Real-world deployment case study showing how enterprises are operationalizing AI agents in mission-critical workflows (code review/approval), with practical guardrails for safety and governance.

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6 to know
  1. Intercom using AI for pull request approval in production

  2. Focus on safety mechanisms and risk mitigation for code approval

  3. Enterprise deployment of AI agents in critical development workflow

  4. Focus on safety mechanisms for automated code review

  5. Increased code production velocity via AI assistance

  6. Published April 2026 - suggests maturity of AI code review workflows

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Intercom Blogintercom.com

Publisher excerpt: We're producing more code than ever at Intercom. Here's how we're safely using AI for PR approval.
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