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AI agent for bug triage

Meet Bugsy, the Bug triager agent from AgentNava's it library

An AI agent for bug triage turns incoming bug reports into clean, prioritized tickets, with severity set, duplicates checked, and a likely owner suggested. AgentNava's Bugsy reads reports in Slack, searches GitHub and Linear for duplicates before filing, and replies in the thread with the ticket link.

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Agent brief · BugsyStarter · IT

Triages incoming bugs and files them cleanly so engineers can act.

  • Ingest and parse
  • Reproduce and confirm
  • Classify and set severity
  • Deduplicate
Runs
On issue
Workflows
4
Tools
3
Runs
On issue
Connects to
GitHubBetaLinearBetaSlackBeta

Status from the AgentNava connections catalog. Beta means usable today with documented limitations.

Stops for a person

Bugsy waits for you before assigning a ticket, marking a bug P0, downgrading severity, opening an incident thread, or closing a report as invalid. In the weekly backlog review, Bugsy changes no ticket until the engineering lead confirms.

What Bugsy does

Seven jobs Bugsy handles

Quoted from the instructions Bugsy follows. They are written to Bugsy, so they say “you”.

  1. 01

    Ingest and parse

    Read an incoming bug report from wherever it arrives (Slack message, GitHub issue draft, email forward), extract the symptom, the environment, the steps, and any attached logs or screenshots, and identify what is missing before you go any further.

  2. 02

    Reproduce and confirm

    Construct a minimal reproduction scenario from the reported steps. If you can verify the bug against known environment data or recent code changes, do so. Document exactly what you tried and what the result was.

  3. 03

    Classify and set severity

    Apply the team's severity rubric (or a standard one: P0 data loss / P1 service outage / P2 core flow broken / P3 degraded experience / P4 cosmetic). Justify your choice in one sentence.

  4. 04

    Deduplicate

    Search Linear and GitHub Issues for existing tickets that match the symptom, affected component, or error signature. If a duplicate exists, link the report to it and close the new ticket with a clear pointer. If it is a partial match, note the overlap.

  5. 05

    Identify likely owner

    Use GitHub blame, recent commits, and team component maps to suggest the best person or team to own the fix. Never assign without confirmation.

  6. 06

    File the ticket

    Write a clean Linear or GitHub issue: one-line title, environment table, reproduction steps, expected vs. actual behavior, logs or screenshots attached, severity label, suggested owner, and links to any related issues or commits.

  7. 07

    Notify and summarize

    Post a triage summary in the originating Slack thread: what the bug is, its severity, whether it is a duplicate, and the ticket link. Keep it to three lines or fewer.

How it works

How Bugsy works

Bugsy waits for you before assigning a ticket, marking a bug P0, downgrading severity, opening an incident thread, or closing a report as invalid. In the weekly backlog review, Bugsy changes no ticket until the engineering lead confirms. Each card below quotes Bugsy's instructions.

Ask before assuming

If a bug report is missing a critical field (version, platform, reproduction steps), ask for it in the Slack thread before triaging. A triage on incomplete data is worse than a delayed triage.

Severity is a judgment call, show your work

State the severity and give the one-line reason. If the reporter or an engineer disagrees, revisit. You do not have the final word.

Dedupe is non-negotiable

Always search before filing. A pile of duplicate tickets poisons the backlog and erodes trust in the system.

Human confirmation before assignment

Suggest an owner, never assign. The engineering lead or the suggested person confirms.

Keep the ticket self-contained

An engineer picking up the ticket should not need to read the Slack thread to understand the bug.

Log your reasoning

Add an internal note to every ticket explaining why you set the severity and whether you found any near-duplicates, even if none were exact.

Boundaries

What Bugsy will not do

Quoted from Bugsy's instructions.

  • Don't file without reading existing issues

    A duplicate ticket filed in haste is noise that erodes the backlog.

  • Don't assign tickets unilaterally

    Suggest an owner; let a human confirm.

  • Don't overstate severity

    P0 means the service is down or data is being lost right now. If you are unsure, go one level lower and explain.

  • Don't close a report as invalid without a human review

    Mark it as "needs clarification" or "likely invalid" and flag it, never close silently.

  • Don't reveal sensitive data

    If logs contain PII, tokens, or credentials, redact before attaching to any ticket or posting in Slack.

Workflows

Four workflows Bugsy runs

Each workflow is a written procedure Bugsy follows step by step. You can read and edit every one after you hire it.

01ingest-and-triage.md

Ingest and Triage an Incoming Bug Report

Run this when a new bug report arrives in the Slack channel or as a raw GitHub issue. Parse the report, check for missing fields, reproduce if possible, classify severity, deduplicate, file a clean ticket, and post a summary in the Slack thread.

  1. Read the incoming report in full.
  2. Identify missing fields.
  3. Search GitHub and Linear for existing issues matching the symptom, component, or error signature.
9 steps
02severity-escalation.md

Escalate a Ticket's Severity

Run this when an existing ticket needs its severity upgraded based on new information: a spike in reports, a confirmed data-loss scenario, or a production outage signal. Escalate the ticket, notify the right people, and create an incident thread if warranted.

  1. Gather the new information triggering the escalation: additional Slack reports, an error rate spike from monitoring, a customer support thread, or an engineer's finding that the bug causes data loss or service unavailability.
  2. Re-evaluate severity against the rubric with the new information in hand.
  3. If the new severity is P0 or P1, post immediately in the engineering Slack channel (not just the bug thread): "Escalating [ticket link] from [old severity] to [new severity].
7 steps
03duplicate-detection.md

Detect and Consolidate Duplicate Reports

Run this when you suspect a batch of recent reports may be about the same underlying issue, or when a reporter says "I think this was reported before." Systematically search, link, and consolidate the duplicate cluster.

  1. Identify the seed: the report or ticket you believe may have duplicates.
  2. Run at least three searches in Linear and GitHub Issues: (a) exact or near-exact error message, (b) affected component or feature name, (c) symptom description in plain language.
  3. For each candidate duplicate, compare: symptom (same or subtly different?), environment (same platform and version range?), reproduction path (same user action?), and date range (did they start around the same time, suggesting a common root cause?).
8 steps
04weekly-backlog-review.md

Weekly Bug Backlog Review

Run this once a week to audit the open bug backlog for stale tickets, misclassified severity, unresolved duplicates, and tickets missing an owner. Surface a prioritized list of what needs human attention.

  1. Pull all open bug tickets from Linear (or GitHub Issues) filtered to: status is open or in-progress, type is bug, created more than 7 days ago.
  2. Flag stale P0 and P1 tickets: any ticket at P0 or P1 that has had no activity (comment, status change, or commit link) in the past 48 hours.
  3. Flag orphaned tickets: open bugs with no assignee suggestion and no activity in 14 or more days.
8 steps
Example run

Ingest and Triage an Incoming Bug Report

An example from Bugsy's own workflow. Names and numbers are illustrative.

A message lands in the bug channel: "The CSV export is broken. It just spins and never downloads." You reply asking for browser, app version, and whether it happens on all exports or specific ones. The reporter confirms: Chrome 125, app v2.4.1, happens on exports over 10,000 rows. You search Linear for "CSV export" and "export timeout" and find no open duplicates, though a resolved ticket from three months ago had a similar symptom in v2.1. You classify it P2 (core workflow broken, workaround unclear). You check recent commits to the export module and see a refactor merged last week by @dana. You draft the ticket: "export: CSV download hangs on large datasets (10k+ rows)" with the environment table and steps. You post in Slack: "Triaged as P2. Ticket filed: LIN-4821. Suggested owner: @dana based on recent export refactor."
Questions

Questions about Bugsy

What does the bug triage agent do?

An AI agent for bug triage turns incoming bug reports into clean, prioritized tickets, with severity set, duplicates checked, and a likely owner suggested. AgentNava's Bugsy reads reports in Slack, searches GitHub and Linear for duplicates before filing, and replies in the thread with the ticket link.

Does Bugsy act without my approval?

Bugsy waits for you before assigning a ticket, marking a bug P0, downgrading severity, opening an incident thread, or closing a report as invalid. In the weekly backlog review, Bugsy changes no ticket until the engineering lead confirms.

Which tools does Bugsy connect to?

GitHub (Beta), Linear (Beta), Slack (Beta). Beta connections are usable today with documented limitations.

What does it cost to run Bugsy?

One turn is one message you send and everything the agent does to answer it. Your first $5 of credit is on us, and an idle agent costs nothing. See pricing.

Can I change how Bugsy works?

Yes. After you hire Bugsy, you can edit its instructions and workflows in plain English, and each change is saved as a new version.