People or bots
The feed shows people or bots, never both at once. How Limn decides who is a bot, and how to correct it.
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The Feed has two sides, People and Bots. People (the default) is what humans did, including their replies to bots. Bots is what bots did, including their replies to people. A thread where a person and a bot both replied shows on both sides. The two are never mixed, so a busy review bot cannot bury the team's conversation.
#How Limn decides who is a bot
An account counts as a bot when any of these is true:
- GitHub says it is a bot or an app.
- It is a known automation account, such as a review bot (CodeRabbit, Copilot and others), a dependency bot (Dependabot, Renovate), a CI bot or a coding agent.
- Someone in the workspace marked it as a bot in Settings → Bots.
The same rule hides bots on the Timeline by default and splits People and Automation on Pending.
#Correct a mistake
If a person is treated as a bot, mark them as a person. If a bot is treated as a person, mark it as a bot. A choice made here wins over Limn's own rule, in both directions.
- On a bot's card in the Feed, choose not a bot? beside its name, and confirm.
- Or open Settings → Bots to see every reviewer the workspace treats as automated, and change any of them.