ENGINEERING

High-Blast-Radius Bump Review Ticket Router (Linear)

For dependency-bump PRs whose blast radius crosses a threshold, this opens a Linear review ticket assigned to the owning team with the affected call sites and services attached.

CategoryEngineering
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerwebhook
Steps6
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerGitHub bump PR webhookGitHubGitHub
  • ActionCompute call sites + blast-radius scoreShell
  • LogicGate: stop if score below threshold
  • ActionResolve owning team from CODEOWNERSShell
  • ActionCreate routed review issue in LinearLinearLinear
  • OutputLabel PR needs-review to hold auto-mergeGitHubGitHub

What it does

Low-risk bumps should auto-merge; high-risk ones need a named owner. This workflow scores a GitHub bump PR's blast radius, and only when it exceeds your threshold does it open a Linear issue routed to the team that owns the affected files, pre-filled with the call sites, version delta, and a link back to the PR. The PR is labeled `needs-review` so merge automation holds.

When to use it

Use it when your team wants bump triage off the PR firehose and into the same Linear board you already plan from, with ownership resolved automatically from CODEOWNERS rather than guessed in Slack.

How it works

  1. 1A GitHub PR webhook fires on a Renovate/Dependabot branch.
  2. 2A shell step computes the changed package's call sites and a blast-radius score.
  3. 3A logic gate stops the flow when the score is below the threshold (lets auto-merge proceed).
  4. 4For high-radius bumps, a step resolves the owning team from CODEOWNERS of the touched paths.
  5. 5A Linear action creates a triaged review issue with call sites, version delta, and PR link, assigned to that team.
  6. 6The workflow labels the GitHub PR `needs-review` to block auto-merge.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect GitHubRepos, issues, pull requests, actions.
  2. 2
    Connect ShellRun sandboxed commands inside the workspace.
  3. 3
    Connect LinearIssues, projects, cycles, triage.
  4. 4
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  5. 5
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  6. 6
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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