Tembo’s agent is a full-stack software engineer powered by AI. It contains a sophisticated a system that finds, fixes, and creates pull requests.

Tembo’s built on:

  • A powerful language model tuned for software maintenance and code generation
  • Real-time signal ingestion from tools like Sentry and Github (see integrations)
  • A review-quality PR generation engine

It’s the tireless junior developer who actually closes tickets.

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How the Agent Works

Tembo turns noisy alerts and performance signals into real code fixes:

  1. Ingests Signals
    Pulls from logs, error trackers, and database metrics (e.g. Sentry, Datadog)

  2. Triages Autonomously
    Detects root causes, prioritizes issues, and builds a fix plan without waiting for a ticket

  3. Writes Pull Requests
    Generates clean, merge-ready PRs that align with your repo’s best practices

  4. Seeks Approval
    You stay in control — approve, reject, or modify the fix before it merges

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What Tembo Can Fix

Tembo specializes in database performance and application reliability issues:

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Database Performance Issues

  • Slow Queries - Identifies queries with high execution times (>100ms by default) and optimizes them
  • Missing Indexes - Detects tables that would benefit from indexing and creates appropriate indexes
  • Unused Indexes - Finds indexes that aren’t being used and removes them to improve write performance

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Application Errors

  • Sentry Errors - Automatically pulls application errors from Sentry and fixes the underlying code issues
  • Stack Traces - Analyzes error patterns and implements proper error handling

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Code Quality Issues

  • TODO Comments - Finds TODO items in your codebase and implements the requested functionality
  • Code Bugs - Uses AI to scan code files and detect potential bugs or performance issues
  • Linear Tickets - Syncs with Linear project management to implement features and fixes

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Integration Support

Tembo connects to your existing tools:

  • PostgreSQL databases (including AWS RDS and Supabase)
  • GitHub repositories for pull request creation
  • Sentry for error monitoring
  • Linear for project management

Tembo focuses on production issues that impact performance and reliability, automatically creating pull requests with the fixes your team needs.

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Tembo Adapts to Your Workflow

Tembo learns and adapts as it works:

  • Context-aware learning from your codebase, stack, and issue history
  • Cross-team intelligence from similar fixes applied across the platform
  • Human-in-the-loop feedback to improve future PR quality
  • Regular updates from the latest database, observability, and performance research

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Interacting With Tembo

Use Tembo on your terms:

  • Slack: Get alerts and fixes where your team already lives
  • GitHub: Review PRs as if they came from a wildly intelligent junior teammate
  • Web Dashboard: See what’s been fixed, what’s coming next, and approve changes

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Solution Review and Approval

While Tembo can work autonomously, you maintain control through your workflow toggle:

  1. The agent detects an issue and generates a solution
  2. You receive a notification with details and recommendations
  3. You can approve, reject, or modify the proposed solution
  4. Upon approval, the agent implements the changes