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🧪 CLI PR Agent — For Pull Requests Outside GitHub Actions

The Early CLI for Pull Requests provides AI-powered test generation for teams using Jenkins, CircleCI, Bitbucket Pipelines, and other CI/CD systems outside GitHub Actions. It mirrors the GitHub Action behavior — analyzing PR diffs, generating unit tests, and committing them — but gives you full control over how and where it runs.

Supported languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python. The CLI auto-detects the project language.

📌 When to Use​

Use the CLI PR Agent when:

  • Your CI system is not GitHub Actions (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI)
  • You want to run test generation for pull requests
  • You need custom workflows or enhanced control over timing and environments
  • You're integrating with Bitbucket, GitHub, or other supported SCMs

When to Use Which Agent →

⚙️ How It Works​

  1. Triggered from your CI on PR open/update
  2. CLI detects PR-diffed files
  3. Runs coverage using your configured test command
  4. Identifies untested functions
  5. Generates AI-based Jest tests
  6. Commits results (if AUTO_COMMIT=true)
  7. Optionally posts a PR comment or updates the PR summary

Uses the early generate-pr command Configure via CLI flags or environment variables

🔐 Requirements​

🧪 First Integration Step​

Integration Guide →

Start with installing the CLI and passing the required environment variables to your CI.

npm install -g @earlyai/cli
early generate-pr

🧠 Available Commands​

CommandDescription
early generate-prGenerate tests for a pull request
early generate-commitGenerate tests for a specific commit
early generate-folderGenerate tests for an entire folder

⏭️ What's Next?​