trying to figure out how to work with the new discourse-patch-triage bot when doing PRs from our own fork, and it’s a bit confusing, especially in a 3-way conversation with it and a team reviewer. is there a proper way to do this? i can’t order it to fix it’s suggested fixes on my fork. at the mom…

@Lilly updates have been made and you can now Ask for @patch-triage to review/rebase/create or commit changes for you Everything works as expected on forks :slight_smile: Please take it for a spin and let me know if you run into any issues :slight_smile:

Thanks lilly for the back and forth there. A couple things To interact with the bot you need to comment @patch-triage and then you can use plain english for your request. It’s functionality is currently limited at reviewing, suggesting changes, rebasing your PR, and creating a new commit with the …

thank you Isaac, that clears things up. i’m just so used to forking repos for PRs, but i’ll start doing PRs on core branches instead in cases like this - the triage bot seems pretty useful. also, spec tests are the bane of my programming. :stuck_out_tongue:

[image] Lilly: but i’ll start doing PRs on core branches instead in cases like this i don’t think i can do this anymore now that i am not staff though :thinking: [Screenshot 2026-05-13 at 1.16.19 PM]

Ah… yes. You can still take advantage of: [image] isaac: however it can still review / suggest changes. I will raise the topic of allowing forks to have write access to the PR internally.

i sort of got the hang of the @patch-triage bot working on my fork, but i think when i told it to fix all in addition to addressing the changes it wanted, it went and fixed a bunch of code out of scope in other time intervals :woman_facepalming:t2:

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isaac (Isaac Janzen) May 13, 2026, 8:33pm 5

Ah… yes. You can still take advantage of:

I will raise the topic of allowing forks to have write access to the PR internally.

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