Source: https://internal-agents.com/agents/doordash-code-review

# DoorDash — AI Code Review Agent

A specialized agent that automatically reviews 10,000+ PRs a week across 56 repositories, emphasizing grounded high-confidence findings over noisy comments.

- Approach type: Background agent
- Deployment stage: Scaled
- Autonomy: Drafts reviewed
- Evidence strength: Detailed primary
- Status: Internal
- First reported year: 2026
- Work: Code review
- Interfaces: Github
- Invocation: Background, Event driven
- Entry reviewed: 2026-09-09

## Where people stay involved

- **pull request → AI review comments** — Work product review · Level 3

## Overview

### Summary

A specialized agent that automatically reviews 10,000+ PRs a week across 56 repositories, emphasizing grounded high-confidence findings over noisy comments.

Fact · Reported · High confidence · `doordash-code-review--summary`

Confidence reason: A linked first-party source states the claim.

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [How DoorDash built an AI code reviewer engineers actually listen to](https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/doordash-built-an-ai-code-reviewer-engineers-actually-listen-to/) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/doordash-code-review-source-1/content.md)

## How it works

### Supporting component

High-confidence, evidence-backed comments rather than blanket commentary

Fact · Reported · High confidence · `doordash-code-review--primitives-0`

Confidence reason: A linked first-party source states the claim.

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [How DoorDash built an AI code reviewer engineers actually listen to](https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/doordash-built-an-ai-code-reviewer-engineers-actually-listen-to/) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/doordash-code-review-source-1/content.md)

## Supervision evidence

### Operating model assessment

Level 3 for pull request → AI review comments; human attention boundary: work-product-review.

Inference · Catalog judgment · High confidence · `doordash-code-review--operating-models-0`

Confidence reason: The source describes automated findings that engineers evaluate within the pull-request workflow.

Qualifications:

- Observation date: 2026

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [How DoorDash built an AI code reviewer engineers actually listen to](https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/doordash-built-an-ai-code-reviewer-engineers-actually-listen-to/) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/doordash-code-review-source-1/content.md)

## Implementation details

### Harness

Three architecture versions; emphasis on attention and grounded, high-confidence findings rather than commenting everywhere

Fact · Reported · High confidence · `doordash-code-review--architecture-harness`

Confidence reason: A linked first-party source states the claim.

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [How DoorDash built an AI code reviewer engineers actually listen to](https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/doordash-built-an-ai-code-reviewer-engineers-actually-listen-to/) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/doordash-code-review-source-1/content.md)

### Model

Not specified

Fact · Reported · High confidence · `doordash-code-review--architecture-model`

Confidence reason: A linked first-party source states the claim.

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [How DoorDash built an AI code reviewer engineers actually listen to](https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/doordash-built-an-ai-code-reviewer-engineers-actually-listen-to/) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/doordash-code-review-source-1/content.md)

### Interfaces

github

Fact · Reported · High confidence · `doordash-code-review--architecture-interfaces`

Confidence reason: A linked first-party source states the claim.

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [How DoorDash built an AI code reviewer engineers actually listen to](https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/doordash-built-an-ai-code-reviewer-engineers-actually-listen-to/) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/doordash-code-review-source-1/content.md)

### Tool access

Reviews Go, iOS, Android, web, infrastructure, and data code

Fact · Reported · High confidence · `doordash-code-review--architecture-tool-access`

Confidence reason: A linked first-party source states the claim.

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [How DoorDash built an AI code reviewer engineers actually listen to](https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/doordash-built-an-ai-code-reviewer-engineers-actually-listen-to/) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/doordash-code-review-source-1/content.md)

### Knowledge

Grounded findings tied to evidence

Fact · Reported · High confidence · `doordash-code-review--architecture-knowledge`

Confidence reason: A linked first-party source states the claim.

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [How DoorDash built an AI code reviewer engineers actually listen to](https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/doordash-built-an-ai-code-reviewer-engineers-actually-listen-to/) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/doordash-code-review-source-1/content.md)

## Reported metrics

### Headline claim

10,000+ pull requests reviewed per week across 56 repositories

Metric · Reported · High confidence · `doordash-code-review--headline-metric`

Confidence reason: A linked first-party source states the claim.

Qualifications:

- The source does not report the denominator of this figure.
- Reported by: DoorDash
- Scope: Typical weekly PR reviews across 56 onboarded repositories

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [How DoorDash built an AI code reviewer engineers actually listen to](https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/doordash-built-an-ai-code-reviewer-engineers-actually-listen-to/) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/doordash-code-review-source-1/content.md) · Preserved content.md, lines 23

### Key observation

10,000+ PRs reviewed in a typical week across 56 repositories

Metric · Reported · High confidence · `doordash-code-review--key-metrics-0`

Confidence reason: A linked first-party source states the claim.

Qualifications:

- The source does not report the denominator of this figure.
- Reported by: DoorDash
- Scope: Typical weekly PR reviews across 56 onboarded repositories

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [How DoorDash built an AI code reviewer engineers actually listen to](https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/doordash-built-an-ai-code-reviewer-engineers-actually-listen-to/) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/doordash-code-review-source-1/content.md) · Preserved content.md, lines 23

### Key observation

60.2% action rate on settled high/critical findings (measured sample)

Metric · Reported · High confidence · `doordash-code-review--key-metrics-1`

Confidence reason: A linked first-party source states the claim.

Qualifications:

- Reported by: DoorDash
- Scope: Settled high and critical findings that led to code changes before merge
- Denominator: 2,256 settled high and critical findings
- Method: Whether the human changed the code before merge in response to the finding

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [How DoorDash built an AI code reviewer engineers actually listen to](https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/doordash-built-an-ai-code-reviewer-engineers-actually-listen-to/) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/doordash-code-review-source-1/content.md) · Preserved content.md, lines 27

## Lessons and interpretation

### Lesson

Optimize for attention; minimize noisy comments; comment only with grounded, high-confidence findings

Inference · Catalog judgment · Medium confidence · `doordash-code-review--lessons-learned-0`

Confidence reason: The catalog derives this observation from the linked sources.

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [How DoorDash built an AI code reviewer engineers actually listen to](https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/doordash-built-an-ai-code-reviewer-engineers-actually-listen-to/) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/doordash-code-review-source-1/content.md)

### Lesson

Measure whether engineers actually act on findings (action rate), not comment volume

Inference · Catalog judgment · Medium confidence · `doordash-code-review--lessons-learned-1`

Confidence reason: The catalog derives this observation from the linked sources.

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [How DoorDash built an AI code reviewer engineers actually listen to](https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/doordash-built-an-ai-code-reviewer-engineers-actually-listen-to/) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/doordash-code-review-source-1/content.md)

## Related implementations

- This entry is a component of: [DoorDash — Flux / Agentic AI Platform](https://internal-agents.com/agents/doordash-flux)

## Sources

1. [How DoorDash built an AI code reviewer engineers actually listen to](https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/doordash-built-an-ai-code-reviewer-engineers-actually-listen-to/)
   - Engineering blog · First party · Evidence
   - Original URL: <https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/doordash-built-an-ai-code-reviewer-engineers-actually-listen-to/>
   - Accessed: 2026-08-12 · Last verified: 2026-08-31
   - Preserved copy in the repository: <https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/doordash-code-review-source-1/content.md>
