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AI Code Generation Consulting

Copilots and review agents that draft against your repos — and never merge unaudited generated code.

Service
Code AI
Industry
Technology
Updated
2026-08-25
Engagement
4 wks
The short answer

AI code generation consulting helps engineering organizations put IDE copilots and pull-request review agents into production against your own repos, with retrieval of internal APIs and ADRs, CI gates for tests and secrets, and a hard rule that unaudited generated code cannot merge — typically one repo family in four weeks, with the client owning evals and policy.

The premise

Copilots raise throughput only if review and CI catch the new failure modes: secrets, license-incompatible snippets, and plausible-but-wrong API use.

Engagement
4 wks
one repo family to governed use
Human merge
required on generated diffs
CI gates
tests, secrets, license, evals
The path
01Discover
02Design
03Build
04Validate
05Enable

Why teams pick this engagement

Code AI × Technology

Unaudited code does not ship

Generated diffs fail CI without tests, secret scan, and a human review. There is no path from chat to main.

Repo RAG, not generic Stack Overflow

Completion and review pull your internal APIs, ADRs, and style — so the model suggests your client, not a blog’s.

Review comments with evidence

PR agents cite the failing test, the rule, or the ADR. “Looks wrong” without a locator is suppressed.

Authors still own the merge

Copilots draft; review agents comment. Merge remains a named engineer. Autonomous merge is out of scope for the first system.

Eval against senior review

Golden PRs measure catch rate on real defects, false-positive noise, and secret leakage — not “developer delight” surveys alone.

One repo family in four weeks

Policy, repo index, review bot or copilot config, CI gates, handover — then the same pattern for the next service.

Key takeaways

  • 01

    Copilots raise throughput only if review and CI catch the new failure modes: secrets, license-incompatible snippets, and plausible-but-wrong API use.

  • 02

    Ground generation and review in your repos and ADRs. Generic pretrained code will ignore your client libraries and your threat model.

  • 03

    Unaudited generated code must not reach main. Tests, secret scanning, and a human merge are release requirements, not culture slogans.

  • 04

    Review agents should be scored on golden PRs against senior review: catch rate versus noise. A noisy bot gets muted and then ignored.

  • 05

    One service or repo family in four weeks is the right first slice; turning on copilot org-wide with no evals is how you scale defects.

What the engagement covers

01

Copilot vs Review-Agent Scoping

Decide where an IDE copilot is enough, where a PR review agent is required, and which repos are too sensitive for either until isolation is in place.

02

Repo-Grounded Architecture

Index of internal libraries, ADRs, and style; secret and PII redaction in prompts; model-provider no-training path; allowlists for which repos can be used as context.

03

Copilot Policy & Review Agent Build

Hands-on: org copilot configuration, a PR review agent that comments with citations, and CI jobs that block generated diffs missing tests or secret scans — in your VCS.

04

Code Eval & Red Team

Golden PRs, vulnerability catch tests, prompt-injection via comments and docs, license/snippet policy, and a quality gate before org-wide rollout.

05

Engineering Enablement & Handover

How to add a golden PR, tune noise, and revoke a repo’s copilot access — plus 30 days on-call after handover.

How we work

  1. 01

    Discover

    Repo inventory, existing copilot usage, CI, secret scanning, and the single repo family in scope.

  2. 02

    Design

    Context policy, merge gates, review-agent comments, and evals reviewed with security and platform.

  3. 03

    Build

    Repo index, copilot/review configuration, and CI gates in a pilot team’s workflow.

  4. 04

    Validate

    Golden-PR catch rate, false-positive noise, secret and injection tests, license policy.

  5. 05

    Enable

    Production for the repo family, runbooks, and 30 days on-call.

Take the playbook with you

The working documents from real engagements — free, in exchange for an email. They’re useful whether or not we ever talk.

Flagship resource · PDF · 15 pages

AI Code Generation Policy for Engineering Orgs

What copilots may see, what review agents must catch, and the CI gates that keep unaudited generated code off main — a policy template plus eval checklist.

Get the policy ·
PDF · 8 pages

Generated-Code CI Gate Spec

The checks that must pass before a copilot-authored diff can merge: tests, SAST/secrets, license, and human review evidence.

Get the spec ·
DOCX · 6 pages

PR Review Agent Golden-Set Template

How to build a set of historical PRs with known defects so a review agent is scored against senior review, not vibes.

Get the template ·

Frequently asked questions

What is AI code generation consulting?

It is the implementation of copilots and review agents against your repos with retrieval, CI gates, and evals so generated code is reviewed like any other change. It is not a seat-license rollout with a lunch-and-learn.

Should we allow generated code to merge automatically?

No. The first production system requires tests, secret scanning, and a human merge. Autonomous merge is a later decision with a measured defect rate, not a default.

How do you stop copilots from leaking secrets or customer code to a vendor?

Enterprise copilot or self-hosted models with a no-training contract, secret scanning on prompts and diffs, repo allowlists, and a ban on pasting production credentials into chat. We verify this in red team, not in a vendor FAQ.

Will a review agent replace senior engineers?

No. It comments on diffs using tests, linters, and retrieved ADRs. Seniors still design, merge, and handle architectural risk. The agent’s job is consistent catch on a known defect class.

How do you measure whether the review agent is any good?

A golden set of historical PRs with labeled defects. We track catch rate, false positives per PR, and time-to-mute. If noise is high, we do not expand the rollout.

How long does an AI code-generation implementation take?

One repo family with policy, gates, and evals is a four-week implementation. Org-wide copilot without those controls is faster and is how you buy a security review later.

Does this work with GitHub, GitLab, and JetBrains?

Yes. We use the copilot or self-hosted completion you already pay for, plus a review agent on GitHub/GitLab merge requests. The gates live in your CI, not in a separate SaaS you cannot inspect.

What about open-source license contamination?

Generated snippets are scanned against your license policy. Copy-heavy matches to copyleft sources fail CI the same way a vendor SAST finding would. That check is part of the gate spec.

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