Inbox
Read documentation for Aviator Inbox, a dashboard for developers to manage pull request reviews and track code review workflows from GitHub.
Inbox is your personalized dashboard for managing pull request reviews from GitHub. It organizes your PRs into meaningful sections so you can quickly identify what needs your attention and take action.
Inbox replaces the previous AttentionSet feature with a more powerful, organized experience.
Sections
Inbox organizes your pull requests into predefined sections based on your relationship to the PR and its current state:
Requested review
PRs where you've been requested as a reviewer and need to take action. These are PRs authored by others that are waiting on your review.
Returned
PRs you authored where the attention has come back to you — typically because a reviewer has commented, requested changes, or approved your PR.
Approved
PRs you authored that have received all required approvals and are ready for the next step (e.g., merging or queuing).
Approved by me
PRs where you've submitted an approval as a reviewer. These are no longer waiting on your action, but you can track their progress here.
Waiting for others
PRs you authored that are waiting for action from reviewers. You don't need to do anything here — the ball is in someone else's court.
Drafts
Draft PRs you've authored. These are work-in-progress changes that aren't yet ready for review.
Queued
PRs you authored that are currently in the merge queue, waiting to be merged.
Snoozed
PRs you've temporarily snoozed to remove them from your active sections. See Snooze below.
Section filters
Each predefined section has a filter icon that lets you apply exclusion filters to fine-tune what appears in that section. You can exclude specific authors, labels, or PRs with failing CI, and set a freshness threshold to hide stale PRs.
Attention
The core concept behind Inbox is attention — identifying who should be acting on a PR at any given moment. When the author sends a PR for review, reviewers have the attention. When reviewers respond, the author gets the attention back.
Every PR can have one or more people who have the attention. A merged PR will not have anyone's attention.
Attention is typically managed automatically based on GitHub events, but it can also be toggled manually as needed. See Attention reasons for a full list of events that trigger attention changes.
Real-time updates
Inbox updates automatically in real time as PR activity happens. When a reviewer comments, a CI check fails, or a PR is approved, your Inbox sections update immediately without needing to refresh the page.
Snooze
Sometimes a PR doesn't need your immediate attention. The snooze feature lets you temporarily hide a PR from your active Inbox sections until a specified time.
Snoozed PRs are removed from all predefined sections and moved to a dedicated Snoozed view, accessible from the Inbox sidebar. When the snooze period expires, the PR automatically returns to the appropriate section.
To snooze a PR, click the snooze icon on any PR row in your Inbox. You can choose from preset durations (30 minutes, 1 hour, 3 hours, tomorrow morning, next week) or select Custom to pick a specific date and time.
When choosing a custom snooze duration, a calendar picker lets you select the exact date and time to unsnooze.
Repository filtering
If you work across multiple repositories, you can filter your entire Inbox by repository using the dropdown in the top right. The repository filter applies across all sections, letting you focus on PRs from a specific project.
Custom sections
In addition to the predefined sections, you can create your own custom sections with personalized filters. This is useful for tracking specific types of PRs — for example, PRs from a particular team, PRs with a specific label, or failing CI checks.
See Custom sections for details on creating and managing custom sections.
Getting started
If you are a new Aviator user, you will first need to install the Aviator app on your GitHub repository. This is typically done as part of the initial setup wizard. You can choose to start with any of MergeQueue or FlexReview workflows to begin the setup.
Once the initial setup is complete, you will be prompted to link your GitHub account. This step is necessary so we can verify your GitHub username that is used to track your attention.
After linking your account, navigate to the Inbox page in the Aviator dashboard to see your pull requests organized by section.
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