CodeRabbit Organization Rollout
Overview
Treat rollout as controlled policy deployment. Central configuration, repository config, organization settings, and global overrides have distinct precedence.
Prerequisites
- Identify the CodeRabbit organization, Git provider, repository, plan, and accountable owner.
- Read
references/official-docs.mdand re-check any time-sensitive contract before execution. - Use synthetic or read-only evidence until the approval boundary is satisfied.
- Preserve the repository's independent CI, security, and human-review requirements.
Current Contract
- A dedicated
coderabbitrepository can provide central configuration. - CodeRabbit must be installed on that repository.
- Repository files can override central config; global overrides apply last.
- Provider permissions and features vary by platform and plan.
Authentication
Treat Git-provider sessions, CodeRabbit web sessions, CLI credentials, and CodeRabbit API keys as separate credentials. Use only an already-approved session or secret-manager reference, never print a secret, and do not place credentials in .coderabbit.yaml, source files, logs, or deliverables.
Instructions
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Inventory providers, repositories, owners, data classes, and current gates.
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Choose a representative pilot with success, failure, and rollback criteria.
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Install least scope and deploy defaults without hard enforcement.
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Measure, train maintainers, and expand in reversible cohorts.
Tool Discipline
- Use Glob to locate candidate configuration and evidence files without widening scope.
- Use Grep to find relevant fields, commands, identifiers, and stale claims.
- Use Read to inspect the smallest required files and authoritative evidence.
- Use Write only for a new approved local draft or evidence artifact.
- Use Edit only for a bounded approved change whose rollback is known.
- Do not use these file tools as a substitute for authenticated CodeRabbit or provider operations.
Approval Boundaries
Require organization-admin approval for installation, overrides, central config, and enforcement cohorts. Keep analysis and drafts local until approval is explicit, and record who approved the action and its scope.
Output
A rollout inventory, precedence map, pilot plan, owners, cohort schedule, and rollback runbook. Include source dates, unknowns, and the exact boundary between observed fact and recommendation.
Error Handling
| Condition | Response | |---|---| | Current contract is unclear or docs disagree | Stop mutation, cite both sources, and request owner resolution. | | Required access or approval is missing | Produce a draft and evidence plan only. | | Validation or pilot behavior differs from expectation | Restore the prior state and retain the failed evidence. | | Output contains secrets or private code | Stop, quarantine the artifact, redact it, and notify the data owner. |
Examples
Example 1
Pilot coderabbit/.coderabbit.yaml for three repositories.
Example 2
Pause rollout and restore prior settings when coverage regresses.
Validation
- Confirm every claim against the dated sources in
references/official-docs.md. - Verify the requested scope, owner, approval, happy path, failure path, and rollback.
- Re-read the effective configuration or provider state after any approved change.
- Report unsupported fields, undocumented endpoints, and unverified assumptions as failures.
Resources
- Official documentation and contract notes
- Re-check the dated contract before any live operation.
- Treat unresolved or changed vendor behavior as a stop condition.