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Automate Github Pr Linting with Google Gemini AI and Auto-fix Prs

ByAdam Bertram @adbertram on n8n.io

LintGuardian is an n8n workflow template that automates code quality enforcement for GitHub repositories. When a pull request is created, the workflow automatically analyzes the changed files, identifies linting issues, fixes them, and submits a new PR with corrections. This…

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This workflow corresponds to n8n.io template #4073 — we link there as the canonical source.

This workflow follows the Agent → HTTP Request recipe pattern — see all workflows that pair these two integrations.

The workflow JSON

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About this workflow

LintGuardian is an n8n workflow template that automates code quality enforcement for GitHub repositories. When a pull request is created, the workflow automatically analyzes the changed files, identifies linting issues, fixes them, and submits a new PR with corrections. This…

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