chore(handbook): update SDLC review policy for AI-assisted workflows#16532
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chore(handbook): update SDLC review policy for AI-assisted workflows#16532
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Clarify PR authorship attribution, review, and approval rules ahead of SOC 2 audit and the upcoming Stamphog blog post. Removes language that implies only humans can review PRs.
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Vale prose linter → found 8 errors, 35 warnings, 0 suggestions in your markdown Full report → Copy the linter results into an LLM to batch-fix issues. Linter being weird? Update the rules!
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| 15:4 | warning | Use the Oxford comma before 'and' or 'or' in a list of three or more items. | PostHogBase.OxfordComma |
| 20:7 | warning | 'Roofshots' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 22:131 | warning | 'timebound' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 28:76 | error | Hi, Andy here... use an en dash ( – ) with spaces. On Mac, holding down the Option and hyphen key will give you an en dash. | PostHogBase.EnDash |
| 29:149 | error | Hi, Andy here... use an en dash ( – ) with spaces. On Mac, holding down the Option and hyphen key will give you an en dash. | PostHogBase.EnDash |
| 31:7 | warning | 'Homogenous' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 44:30 | warning | 'hacky' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 51:111 | error | Hi, Andy here... use an en dash ( – ) with spaces. On Mac, holding down the Option and hyphen key will give you an en dash. | PostHogBase.EnDash |
| 84:7 | warning | 'Dogfooding' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 103:162 | warning | Use American English. Use 'labeling' instead of 'labelling'. | PostHogBase.AmericanEnglish |
| 104:50 | warning | Capitalize 'Feature Flags' for PostHog's product. Use 'feature flags' for the general industry concept. | PostHogBase.ProductNames |
| 104:151 | warning | Capitalize 'Feature Flags' for PostHog's product. Use 'feature flags' for the general industry concept. | PostHogBase.ProductNames |
| 122:99 | warning | 'Dependabot' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 122:158 | warning | Use American English. Use 'labeled' instead of 'labelled'. | PostHogBase.AmericanEnglish |
| 134:5 | warning | 'Storybook Visual Regression Tests' heading should be in sentence case, and product names should be capitalized. | PostHogBase.SentenceCase |
| 140:6 | warning | 'Running Tests Locally' heading should be in sentence case, and product names should be capitalized. | PostHogBase.SentenceCase |
| 175:41 | warning | 'conflics' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 175:124 | warning | Use the Oxford comma before 'and' or 'or' in a list of three or more items. | PostHogBase.OxfordComma |
| 177:1 | warning | Use 'GitHub' instead of 'Github'. | Vale.Terms |
| 199:83 | warning | Use 'GitHub' instead of 'Github'. | Vale.Terms |
| 252:66 | warning | 'Stamphog' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 252:99 | warning | 'Stamphog' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 252:242 | warning | 'Stamphog' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 255:59 | warning | 'Greptile' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 274:5 | warning | Use the Oxford comma before 'and' or 'or' in a list of three or more items. | PostHogBase.OxfordComma |
| 276:216 | warning | Use 'PostHog' instead of 'posthog'. | Vale.Terms |
| 321:1 | error | Hi, Andy here... use an en dash ( – ) with spaces. On Mac, holding down the Option and hyphen key will give you an en dash. | PostHogBase.EnDash |
| 323:1 | error | Hi, Andy here... use an en dash ( – ) with spaces. On Mac, holding down the Option and hyphen key will give you an en dash. | PostHogBase.EnDash |
| 325:1 | error | Hi, Andy here... use an en dash ( – ) with spaces. On Mac, holding down the Option and hyphen key will give you an en dash. | PostHogBase.EnDash |
| 327:1 | error | Hi, Andy here... use an en dash ( – ) with spaces. On Mac, holding down the Option and hyphen key will give you an en dash. | PostHogBase.EnDash |
| 353:21 | warning | 'hign' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 383:38 | warning | 'eg' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 384:113 | warning | 'eg' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 391:49 | warning | 'eg' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 393:37 | warning | 'eg' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 393:82 | error | Hi, Andy here... use an en dash ( – ) with spaces. On Mac, holding down the Option and hyphen key will give you an en dash. | PostHogBase.EnDash |
| 395:68 | warning | Capitalize 'Feature Flags' for PostHog's product. Use 'Feature flags' for the general industry concept. | PostHogBase.ProductNames |
| 395:89 | warning | Capitalize 'Experiments' for PostHog's product. Use 'experiments' for the general industry concept. | PostHogBase.ProductNames |
| 395:189 | warning | 'sidwways' is a possible misspelling. | PostHogBase.Spelling |
| 401:84 | warning | Capitalize 'Experiments' for PostHog's product. Use 'experiments' for the general industry concept. | PostHogBase.ProductNames |
| 401:128 | warning | Capitalize 'Experiments' for PostHog's product. Use 'experiments' for the general industry concept. | PostHogBase.ProductNames |
| 401:168 | warning | Capitalize 'Experiments' for PostHog's product. Use 'experiments' for the general industry concept. | PostHogBase.ProductNames |
| 423:33 | warning | Use 'Kubernetes' instead of 'kubernetes'. | Vale.Terms |
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@webjunkie Should we link to https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/AI_POLICY.md? |
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Clarifies PR authorship, review, and approval rules in the shipping & releasing handbook page to reflect the current state of AI-assisted development at PostHog.
Creating PRs now covers attribution: human-authored vs. agent-authored PRs and how each should be labelled.
Reviewing code distinguishes between AI review agents (Codex, Copilot, Greptile, etc.) that leave feedback and Stamphog as an approval agent. Agent-authored PRs always need a human review.
Merging drops the "fellow team member" requirement, replaced with "always request a review" (which can now be AI-assisted for eligible PRs).