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Codeball is a legacy AI pull-request triage GitHub Action from Sturdy that scored PRs from 0 to 1 and could auto-approve low-risk changes. The original codeball.ai domain no longer represents the product, while the public action remains available on GitHub with old visible activity, so teams should treat it as historical rather than an active SaaS review platform.

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Codeball approached code review from a unique angle by focusing on identifying which pull requests looked safe to merge rather than trying to be a full reviewer. The historical GitHub Action assigned a risk score and could auto-approve low-risk PRs such as documentation updates or simple configuration changes. In 2026, however, the original product domain no longer represents Codeball, so this page should be read as a legacy reference rather than an active SaaS recommendation.

The public sturdy-dev/codeball-action repository still documents a GitHub Action that can run on pull requests and label or approve changes based on configuration. Teams can review those historical workflow examples if they want to understand the triage model. Because app and pricing surfaces could not be verified and the product domain now serves unrelated content, teams should test the action carefully before any internal use.

No current Codeball SaaS pricing was verified: codeball.ai/pricing returns 404 and app.codeball.ai does not resolve. The safe current framing is that a legacy open-source GitHub Action remains public, while new teams should compare maintained AI code-review alternatives for active pricing, docs, security posture, and support. Codeball may still be useful as a historical example of PR triage, but not as a current buyer-guide recommendation.

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Legacy open-source GitHub Action; no current SaaS pricing verified

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Why it died

Original codeball.ai product domain no longer represents the Codeball PR-triage tool; pricing/app surfaces unavailable; public GitHub Action appears legacy.

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