Use spare AI quota to draft reviewable PRs
A founder pointed an agent at goals and task lists so it could turn leftover Claude and Codex quota into pull requests for review.
- What they did
- They set up RemainderBot with a goals file plus one or more task-list sources. It could run manually or on a schedule; in scheduled mode, it checked how much subscription quota was left, looked at the time until the weekly reset, chose a task, created a fresh branch, and opened a pull request. The founder then reviewed the PRs on GitHub, and their comments and merge choices influenced what the bot tried next.
- How it went
- The system generated 111 pull requests, including prep for customer calls, a sweep of 31 GitHub organizations’ agent setup files, and self-contained demo prototypes. The writeup did not give an accuracy rate, and the author asked people to report any mistakes.
- Tips
- This setup depends on git, the claude or codex command-line tool, and an authenticated gh login. Even a short run with a 20-minute window used only a few percent of the weekly quota.
Try it yourself with Claude
I have a goals file at [path] and task sources at [path or link]. Review them, choose up to [number] small tasks that are concrete enough to finish quickly, and work on each task in its own branch inside [repo]. For every task, make the smallest useful change, open a pull request with a plain summary of the change and any assumptions, then stop and give me a list of the PRs. Before you do anything that would send, submit, delete, merge, or otherwise make a change I can’t easily undo, pause and ask me to approve that step.
Fill in the [brackets]. Agents can make mistakes, so review anything before it is sent, paid or deleted.
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