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Find pull requests that have gone quiet
For developers who want stale Azure DevOps pull requests and who is blocking them, just by asking their AI assistant.
On this page
Connector
Connect Azure DevOps, pick your AI tool and paste the prompt.
The problem
Pull requests sit unreviewed for days
Pull requests sit unreviewed for days and nobody notices who is blocking them. Finding the quiet ones means filtering the list and opening each pull request to see its reviewers and threads.
Without PopdockAI
- Filter active pull requests by last activity
- Open each one to check reviewers
- Read the open comment threads
- Let reviews stall another week
With PopdockAI
- Active pull requests with no recent activity are listed
- Drafts are skipped
- Missing reviewers and open threads are named for each
- What was skipped is stated, and nothing is approved or merged
The prompt
Use this prompt
Copy it into any AI tool connected to PopdockAI. Swap the values in braces for your own.
**Objective:** Find the active pull requests in `{repository-name}` (all repositories if empty) with no activity for `{stale-days}` days (default 7) and say what is holding each one up.
**Step 1: List active pull requests**
Call `azure-devops-get-pull-request` with status `active` and repository-name `{repository-name}` when given. Drop drafts from the main list and mention them separately. Keep those whose last activity is older than the stale threshold; use the creation-date when nothing newer is available.
**Step 2: Find the blockers**
For each stale pull request call `azure-devops-get-pull-request-reviewer` with its pull-request-id and repository-id. Note required reviewers with no vote, votes of waiting or rejected, and flagged reviewers. Then call `azure-devops-get-pull-request-thread` with the same ids and status `active` to count unresolved comment threads.
**Step 3: Report**
A table of pull request id, title, author, age in days, merge-status, reviewers still needed, unresolved threads. Below it, one line per pull request naming the single next action and who should take it. Order by age, oldest first.
**Rules & Guidelines:**
* This prompt is read-only. Call only the `azure-devops-get-*` read tools named above; never create, update, comment on, approve, queue, abort or delete anything in Azure DevOps.
* The tools only return data the connected account can see; never infer data from projects outside that access.
* Cap the deep dive at the 15 oldest stale pull requests and say how many were skipped.
* A merge-status other than succeeded is a blocker in its own right; call it out.
**Validation:**
* If no pull requests are stale, say so and show the oldest active one as a reference.
* If `{stale-days}` is empty, use 7.
Who it's for
One answer, three teams that use it
Tech leads
Get reviews moving again
See which pull requests are stuck and who is missing, so you can nudge the right people.
Triage stale pull requests in Fabrikam.Api, quiet for 2 days or more.
Developers
Find out why your change is stuck
See the missing reviewers and open threads on your pull requests.
Which of the stale pull requests in Northwind.Portal are waiting on reviewers?
Engineering managers
Spot review bottlenecks
Repeated missing reviewers show where review load needs spreading.
List pull requests in Contoso.Services with no activity for 5 days and their open threads.
How it works
What PopdockAI does when you ask
You name a repository and how long counts as stale, and your AI assistant finds the stalled pull requests. It only reads.
01
Ask
You name the repository and how long counts as stale.
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Read
It lists active pull requests with no recent activity, skipping drafts.
03
Check
It reads the reviewers and comment threads on each.
04
Report
You get each pull request with who is missing and what is open.
What PopdockAI provides
The tools behind the answer
Ready made tools for Azure DevOps and one secure connection to your AI tool. No code, no exports.
azure-devops-get-pull-request
azure-devops-get-pull-request-reviewer
azure-devops-get-pull-request-thread
This report is built from Get data tools only. PopdockAI applies the row, field and parameter rules your admin sets, and every query is written to the audit trail.
The outcome
Stalled reviews, and who can unblock them
Related use cases
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