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title: "AI actions"
description: "Describe selected commits or uncommitted work with the in-app agent — short summary, review, test plan, and more."
---

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# AI actions

Right-click a commit, a multi-commit selection, or the uncommitted WIP row
and choose **AI actions…**, press
<kbd>Cmd/Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>A</kbd>, or click **AI actions**
in Review all / the working-changes view. The popup asks an in-app agent to
read those revisions and write something about them. Review all and the
working-changes button start on **Short description**; the menus start on
**Implementation comment**.

The agent runs in the repository and uses read-only `git`. GitLane never
ships a diff over IPC.

When commits are picked *together with* the WIP row, the agent reads that as
one span ending at the working tree — the same merged diff Review all opens —
rather than the commits and the uncommitted changes as two separate reads.

## What it can write

Pick a command, then **Run**
(<kbd>Cmd/Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Enter</kbd>). The shipped set:

| Action | What you get |
| --- | --- |
| **Short description** | A concise Markdown summary — at most 4 sentences or 5 short bullets |
| **Full description** | Markdown with short headings and bullets: what changed, why, and how the main pieces work together |
| **Implementation comment** | A practical update for developers, product, and QA. If the current branch name carries a ticket key (`feature/GL-12-…`), that key is passed in |
| **Release notes** | User-facing entries; internal-only work is omitted |
| **Review & risk** | Actionable defects in the diff, highest impact first |
| **Test plan** | Numbered manual steps with expected results |
| **Custom prompt** | Whatever you type — including a skill. The result is the final text, not the agent's plan |

Settings → Prompts → AI actions is that same list: disable a built-in to hide
it, reorder, or **Add command** with your own title and prompt. Custom prompt
stays a one-shot field at run time.

If the current branch name carries a ticket key, it is passed to every
command (not only Implementation comment).

An extra field on the toolbar adds a note at run time (always, including
Custom). The same agent picker as Draft / Describe sits in the header, so
you can switch model or effort without leaving the popup.

## After it finishes

The result fills the pane. Switch **Formatted** (renders Markdown) /
**Raw**, or **Edit** the text in place.

- **Copy** puts it on the clipboard (the button reads Copied for a moment,
  then returns).
- **Post to PR** appears when the current branch has an open pull request,
  and adds the text as a comment.
- **Show prompt** reveals the stored instruction; **Edit in Settings** jumps
  to Settings → Prompts.

**Stop** ends a run in progress — the adapter process and everything it
started.

## Editing the prompts

Settings → **Prompts** → AI actions is the same list as the picker.
Expand a row to edit its title and prompt. **Save** keeps it, **Cancel**
discards it. Built-ins can be reset to the shipped text (they cannot be
deleted). Your own commands can be deleted. Custom prompt is typed at
run time and is not stored.

The same panel holds the shared commit-message instruction (Draft,
Improve, and Commit with agent) as a row in the same style — always on,
with no enable switch.

[Configuring agents →](/guides/settings)

> **Same rules as Draft**
>
> Writes are never auto-approved, a shell call has to be a read-only `git`
> command with nothing chained into it, and network fetches are refused. A
> missing adapter, a signed-out CLI, or a refusal each say so instead of
> timing out.

Source: https://docs.gitlane.space/guides/ai-actions/index.mdx