AGENTS: specify how the agents can interact with the PR/comments

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  • Added guidance for automated agents on identifying themselves, using impersonal wording, and obtaining confirmation before replying to human comments.
  • Clarified that agents must not change pull request or comment status, with examples of appropriate and inappropriate comment text.

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Walkthrough

AGENTS.md adds requirements for identifying agent-authored comments, using impersonal wording, confirming before replying to human comments, and leaving PR and comment state unchanged. It also adds examples of permitted and disallowed comment text.

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Comment Interaction Rules

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Agent comment requirements AGENTS.md	Adds requirements for identifying agent-authored comments, avoiding first-person language, warning users and obtaining confirmation before drafting replies to human comments, and not changing PR or comment state. Adds examples.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: ashtarkb

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f622c

The guidance describes agent comments but also appears to prohibit posting them. Clarify the rule’s scope before merging so agents can follow a consistent policy.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to f622c

The policy adds approval requirements and restricts privileged actions, but leaves unclear whether posting a reply is permitted or reserved to the user. The change is documentation-only; no executable permission change or authorization bypass is demonstrated.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · inferred: The new contract contemplates automated comment posting and confirmed replies, yet prohibits any change to comment state and assigns all state changes to users. This leaves ownership of reply posting ambiguous. The read-and-comment language supports an intended exception, but does not state it explicitly; inconsistent enforcement is a possible consequence, not an observed runtime failure.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The potential exposure is policy interpretation by automation consuming this guidance for PR reviews and issue comments. The evidence does not establish which integrations consume it or their credentials, repository reach, or effective privileges.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The text distinguishes automated authorship from human authorship and names explicit user confirmation after a warning as the reply gate. It does not expressly grant authority to instructions contained in comments; implementation-level enforcement of that distinction is unavailable.

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: documenting how agents can interact with pull requests and comments.
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- Line 295: Update Rule 4 to prohibit changing PR state and modifying existing
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