Using the Terracotta AI Bot in Pull Requests

🤖 Using the Terracotta AI Bot in Your PR

The Terracotta AI bot is always available in your pull request to provide real-time, contextual support for infrastructure-related questions.

🔍 What It Can Do

The bot can answer questions related to:

• Terraform syntax, modules, resources, and usage

• CDK for Terraform (CDK-TF) in TypeScript

• Cloud provider services like AWS, GCP, Azure

• Contextual understanding of your PR, including:

  • The full diff
  • The surrounding IaC code
  • The overall repository structure

This means you can ask about:

• Why a particular line in the PR might cause a misconfiguration
• What a specific module does
• How does a change impact the infrastructure as a whole
• Security or cost implications of changes

💬 How to Ask Questions

You can engage with the bot directly inside a PR comment:

• Mention the bot directly:

@try-terracotta What does this IAM role allow?

• Use thetc: shorthand:

tc: What resources will be created from this diff?

The bot will respond contextually within the same thread, utilizing knowledge of your repository and IaC tooling.

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Tip: The bot understands context across the repo, so feel free to ask even high-level architecture or drift-related questions.