Hi HN,
I built Sniptail — an open-source bot that lets you run AI coding agents (Codex / Copilot CLI) against real repos directly from Slack or Discord.
Instead of AI living only inside one developer’s IDE, Sniptail turns it into a team-facing layer:
- Mention the bot and ask how a feature works - Run commands to ask, plan or implement collaboratively - Generate repo reports - Open lightweight PRs
All against explicitly approved repos.
Flow:
Slack/Discord → job queued in Redis → worker clones repo → agent runs → report or PR link posted back in-thread.
It’s self-hosted, repo-scoped, and modular (chat channel, agent, git provider are separate layers).
Not trying to replace Copilot/Codex/CC, the worker runs it on your behalf.
Repo:
https://github.com/Justkog/sniptail
If the project gains traction, the idea is to support:
- more agents (Claude Code, Open Code, …) - more channels (Telegram, Microsoft Teams, …) - more git services (Bitbucket, Azure Repos, …)
Feel free to try it, let me know if you find it actually useful!
Happy to go deep on architecture if helpful.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066016
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