Pullfrog is a free, open source ai assisted coding project written in TypeScript and released under MIT. It has 1,195 GitHub stars, 75 forks and 11 open issues, and was last pushed 9 hours ago. On this registry it ranks #22 of 24 tracked projects in AI Assisted Coding, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available. It gained 21 stars over the last 6 tracked days.

What is Pullfrog?

Pullfrog is an open-source, model-agnostic BYOK GitHub bot that runs AI agent workflows natively inside GitHub Actions, and it is built for developers and teams who want automated PR review, CI autofix, and issue triage without handing their repository, keys, or cost model to a hosted vendor.

What it is

Pullfrog is a TypeScript project, MIT-licensed, that lives in the GitHub ecosystem as a GitHub Action. It is not an agent itself. Instead, it wraps vanilla Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode, selecting whichever matches the bring-your-own-key or bring-your-own-subscription configuration in place, so every run uses the vendor's real agent. It listens for GitHub events — pull requests opened, issues created, reviews submitted, CI failures — and triggers agent runs according to configuration held in a pullfrog.yml workflow. Because it reads the repository-level configuration already kept for those agents, it honours CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, skills, custom commands, and repo-level MCP servers. Automations can be toggled from a dashboard and customised with per-trigger instructions, and ad hoc work is available by tagging @pullfrog in any issue, pull request, or comment, or by prompting from the console.

The concrete problem is the hosted AI code review bot: pull request review, review-comment handling, CI repair, and issue triage are useful, but the common commercial form of that service takes custody of the repository, the model keys, and the bill. Pullfrog replaces that arrangement with a workflow that runs on infrastructure the user already controls. Keys can sit in an encrypted secret store or in GitHub Actions secrets, GitHub operations use an installation token that is auto-revoked when the run completes, secrets are masked in logs, and the project positions itself as the BYOK alternative to CodeRabbit. Cost control follows the same logic: runs can bill against an existing coding-agent plan, against a personal API key, or through a built-in router charged at raw provider cost with no markup.

Key capabilities

  • Event-driven agent runs configured through a pullfrog.yml workflow that uses this open-source action.
  • Automatic review of incoming pull requests, with a review verdict that can gate merges through requireable status checks.
  • Review-comment handling: comments left on a Pullfrog pull request are addressed as they would be by a human colleague.
  • CI autofix on Pullfrog's own pull requests, optionally extended to human pull requests, plus automatic repair of merge conflicts.
  • Issue triage that answers common questions, applies labels, links related issues and pull requests, and drafts implementation plans.
  • Model-agnostic model selection across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, and OpenRouter, switchable with a config change.
  • Batteries included: a purpose-built MCP server for git and GitHub operations behind a permission layer, shell commands in an isolated subprocess without sensitive environment variables, a headless browser with screenshot uploads, and setup, post-checkout, pre-push, and stop hooks.

Who uses it and how

  • Teams already paying for Claude Pro/Max, ChatGPT Codex, Grok, Kimi Code, or OpenCode Go connect once with npx pullfrog auth claude, npx pullfrog auth codex, npx pullfrog auth grok, or a KIMI_API_KEY or OPENCODE_API_KEY, and every run bills against the existing plan.
  • Open-source maintainers, for whom Pullfrog is free for personal and open-source usage, use it to auto-review incoming pull requests and triage issues.
  • Organisations with data-ownership constraints run it in their own GitHub Actions, keeping keys in the encrypted secret store or in GitHub Actions secrets rather than a vendor account.
  • Ad hoc workflows route through the @pullfrog tag in any issue, pull request, or comment, with surrounding context pulled in automatically.

Getting started

Run npx pullfrog init in any local repository, or install from the browser at pullfrog.com/console. Setup takes about two minutes: install the GitHub App, add the pullfrog.yml workflow with one click, and pick a model.

How it compares

CodeRabbit is the commercial hosted service Pullfrog explicitly positions against, and the contrast runs along licence, custody, and cost. Pullfrog is MIT-licensed and runs as a GitHub Action in the user's own repository, so the infrastructure, the keys, and the costs stay under user control rather than a vendor's. The cost model differs too: an existing coding-agent subscription, a personal API key, or the built-in router billed at raw provider cost with no markup, instead of a hosted subscription price.

When to use it — and when not to

A self-hoster must operate a GitHub Actions workflow, install and maintain the GitHub App, and supply model credentials or a connected subscription plan, which is real ongoing work compared with dropping in a hosted app. Teams that want a fully managed service with no workflow upkeep, or that cannot run agents inside GitHub Actions at all, should look elsewhere, and anyone expecting Pullfrog to be the agent itself should note that it wraps upstream agents and inherits their constraints. The public metadata is also thin: the repository lists no topics, the README excerpt is truncated mid-sentence in the hooks section, and the only recency signal is a last push on 2026-09-16.

project readme (upstream, from github) — read inline

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Pullfrog

The BYOK CodeRabbit that runs in your GitHub Actions

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New — Pullfrog is now free for personal and open-source usage.

What is Pullfrog?

Pullfrog is the BYOK CodeRabbit that runs in your GitHub Actions. It listens for GitHub events — PRs opened, issues created, reviews submitted, CI failures — and triggers agent runs based on your configuration, via a pullfrog.yml workflow that uses this open-source action. You control the infrastructure, the keys, and the costs.

Pullfrog is not an agent itself. It wraps vanilla Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode, selecting the one that matches your BYOK or bring-your-own-subscription configuration — so every run uses the vendor's real agent, and it reads the repo-level config you already keep for it: CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, skills, custom commands, and repo-level MCP servers.

Out of the box, it can:

  • Review new PRs — auto-review every incoming PR; the review verdict can gate merges via requireable status checks.
  • Address reviews — leave review comments on a Pullfrog PR as you would for a human colleague, and it addresses them.
  • Autofix CI — Pullfrog detects CI failures on its own PRs and attempts a fix. It can be configured to fix human PRs too.
  • Autofix merge conflicts — keep PRs mergeable without hand-resolving.
  • Triage issues — respond to common questions, apply labels, link related issues and PRs, or draft implementation plans.
  • Anything ad hoc — tag @pullfrog in any issue, PR, or comment. It pulls in the surrounding context and figures out what to do. Prompt from the console for anything else.

Each automation can be toggled from the dashboard and customized with per-trigger instructions.

Get started

Run one command in any local repo:

npx pullfrog init

Or install from the browser. Setup takes about two minutes: install the GitHub App, add the pullfrog.yml workflow with one click, and pick a model. See getting started.

Runs on the subscription you already pay for

No API key required. Connect a coding-agent plan once and every run bills against it:

Plan Connect with
Claude Pro/Max npx pullfrog auth claude
ChatGPT Codex npx pullfrog auth codex
Grok npx pullfrog auth grok
Kimi Code a Kimi Code key as KIMI_API_KEY
OpenCode Go an OpenCode key as OPENCODE_API_KEY

Or bring your own model

Pullfrog works with any LLM provider: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, and more. Switch models with a config change. Two more ways to pay for tokens:

  • Your own API key — stored in Pullfrog's encrypted secret store or in GitHub Actions secrets, your choice.
  • Router — Pullfrog's built-in model access, billed at raw provider cost with no markup.

Batteries included

  • 🛠️ MCP tools for GitHub — a purpose-built MCP server for git and GitHub operations: creating PRs, leaving reviews and comments, reading CI logs, managing issues. Every operation goes through Pullfrog's permission layer.
  • 🛡️ Secure shell access — shell commands run in an isolated subprocess without access to sensitive environment variables.
  • 🌐 Headless browser — for end-to-end tests, screenshots, and UI iteration, with screenshot uploads out of the box.
  • 🔑 Short-lived credentials — all GitHub operations use an installation token that is auto-revoked when the run completes. Keys are auto-masked in logs, and only the minimum necessary environment variables pass through to the agent.
  • 🪝 Hooks — setup, post-checkout, pre-push, and stop scripts that run inside the agent's permission boundary. A stop script that exits non-zero resumes the agent with the failure as context, so it fixes its own broken push instead of opening a red PR.
  • 🔐 GitHub-native permissions — GitHub remains the single source of truth for access control. Users only see repos they already have access to; org settings require an org owner.

Pricing

Pullfrog is free for developers on personal GitHub accounts and free for open-source repos. Pro is $30/month for the whole organization with no per-run or per-seat billing — required for an org's private repos, optional everywhere else. Pullfrog also covers model cost for impactful open-source projects — apply here.

Standalone usage

The same pullfrog/pullfrog@v0 action that powers the automations above also works as a step in your own workflows — an agent as one stage of a larger pipeline. The action takes a prompt and the provider key of your choice; the only permission it needs is id-token: write, which lets it mint its own short-lived GitHub token.

# .github/workflows/agent.yml — run any prompt on demand
name: Agent
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      prompt:
        description: What should the agent do?
        required: true

jobs:
  agent:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      id-token: write
      contents: read
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: pullfrog/pullfrog@v0
        with:
          prompt: ${{ inputs.prompt }}
        env:
          ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }}

The action also exposes a result output that subsequent steps can consume. See CI integration for the full guide.

Example: auto-generate release notes on new tags
name: Release
on:
  push:
    tags: ['v*']

permissions:
  contents: write

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Generate release notes
        id: notes
        uses: pullfrog/pullfrog@v0
        with:
          prompt: |
            Generate release notes for ${{ github.ref_name }}.
            Compare commits between this tag and the previous tag.
            Format as markdown: summary paragraph, then ### Features, ### Fixes, ### Breaking Changes sections.
            Omit empty sections. Be concise.
        env:
          ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }}

      # write to file to avoid shell escaping issues with special characters
      - name: Create GitHub release
        run: |
          notesfile="$RUNNER_TEMP/release-notes-$GITHUB_RUN_ID.md"
          printf '%s' "$NOTES" > "$notesfile"
          gh release create ${{ github.ref_name }} --title "${{ github.ref_name }}" --notes-file "$notesfile"
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
          NOTES: ${{ steps.notes.outputs.result }}
Example: prompt from a file

For longer prompts you want to version and reuse, commit the prompt text to the repo and pass its path with prompt_file instead of inlining it. The path is resolved relative to GITHUB_WORKSPACE, and it is mutually exclusive with prompt — set exactly one.

# .github/workflows/triage.yml
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: pullfrog/pullfrog@v0
  with:
    prompt_file: .github/pullfrog/triage.md
  env:
    ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }}
Structured output

Pass a JSON Schema via the output_schema input to make the agent's output required and validated — the bridge between an agent's reasoning and the hard steps that follow it. See capturing agent output for the details and a worked example.

Frequently asked questions

Is Pullfrog free to use?

Pullfrog is open source under the MIT licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does Pullfrog do?

AI agent workflows built natively into GitHub

What is Pullfrog written in?

Pullfrog is primarily written in TypeScript. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/pullfrog/pullfrog, and it has 1,195 GitHub stars.