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Aviator

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PR automation and merge queue SaaS for high-velocity engineering teams — automate pull request merging, stack PRs, and reduce CI bottlenecks.

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Aviator extends its merge queue to AI coding agents, making PR automation infrastructure for autonomous tools

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◆Current state
Aviator is a merge queue and stacked PR platform for engineering teams. Its core—MergeQueue—batches and validates pull requests to keep trunk green. Recent work has layered a rebuilt Inbox for PR triage, Runbooks addressable via REST API and Linear, and a Chrome extension that surfaces queue status directly on GitHub PR pages.
◆Where it's heading
Aviator is moving from a developer-facing tool toward infrastructure that can be operated programmatically by both humans and AI coding agents. The agent plugin release makes this explicit: stacked PR workflows are now available to AI tools as first-class participants, not just human developers. Firefox support and the revamped extension widen the surface area further.
◆Prediction
Expect deeper agent plugin integrations—more coding tools beyond Claude Code, and likely a webhook or event-driven API for Runbooks that agents can trigger without human approval.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    MergeQueue now supports GitHub's native stacked pull requests

    MergeQueue now handles GitHub CLI-based stacked PRs natively with zero configuration. This closes a friction point for teams using GitHub's own stacking tooling alongside Aviator's queue.

  2. 2mo ago

    Meet Inbox: every PR that needs you, in one place

    The Inbox overhaul consolidates all PR actions in one view, adds stack-level tooling, and ships Firefox support. Aviator is now reachable across every major browser developers use.

  3. 3mo ago

    Chrome Extension gets a revamp

    The Chrome extension surfaces queue status directly on GitHub PR pages and opens faster. Moving the key signal into GitHub itself reduces context-switching to zero.

  4. 5mo ago

    Use stacked PRs with agent plugins

    ⚡ SPARK

    Aviator's CLI agent plugins bring stacked PR workflows to AI coding agents, making the merge queue machine-operable by autonomous tools for the first time.

  5. 5mo ago

    Runbooks beyond the UI

    Runbooks gained REST API, Linear, spec-file, and in-PR invocation—breaking the product out of the Aviator dashboard. The API surface makes Runbooks relevant for automation pipelines that never touch the UI.