💬Lucy
Lucy is the Hivel assistant that allows you to retrieve engineering metrics and trends through simple prompts.
Instead of navigating through multiple dashboards or Cockpit views, Lucy helps you quickly surface data such as team trends, contributor rankings, or potential hotspots across repositories.
Lucy is currently in Beta, so the scope of questions it can answer is gradually increasing. The goal at this stage is to help teams quickly explore trends and summaries without replacing the existing dashboards.
For deeper analysis or detailed drilldowns, the Cockpit dashboards remain the most reliable and comprehensive way to explore data.
Lucy's scope is restricted to GIT-related metrics for the Beta phase.
What Lucy Helps With
Lucy currently focuses on a few specific use cases where quick visibility is helpful.
Generate Trends Across Multiple Metrics
Lucy can generate trend views for multiple metrics across a time period for the org or teams or authors.
This allows users to quickly understand how several engineering metrics move together without switching between different screens.
Example questions:
Show the trend of cycle time, review time, and merge time for Team @Ninjas over the last 3 months
Compare coding time and PR size trends for the @Payments team in the last quarter
Show review time trend for @Harry in the last 60 days
Why this is useful
On the Cockpit dashboards you can drill into individual metrics. Lucy helps combine multiple metrics together in one quick view so that trends can be spotted faster.
Identify Bottlenecks or Hotspots
Lucy can highlight potential bottlenecks across repositories for certain metrics.
Example questions:
Which repositories have the highest unreviewed PRs
Show repos with the highest hotfix rate in the last 90 days
Identify teams with the most unreviewed PRs
These queries help quickly surface areas that may need attention before exploring them in detail in Cockpit.
Identify Top Contributors
Lucy can identify authors or teams that contribute the most toward specific metrics.
Example questions:
Who are the top contributors in the @Payments repository this month
Show authors with the highest number of merged PRs in the last 30 days
Which teams contributed the most commits last quarter
This can help teams quickly identify activity levels across contributors or teams.
Current State of Lucy
Lucy is currently in Beta, which means we are actively improving both the intelligence and the range of questions it can answer.
At this stage:
The scope of supported questions is small
Responses may be basic compared to Cockpit dashboards
Trend representations may not always capture the full context of the data
Some prompts may not return results if they fall outside the supported query patterns
Lucy is designed to assist quick exploration, not replace Cockpit dashboards or detailed analysis workflows.
When to Use Lucy vs Cockpit
Use Lucy when you want to:
Quickly check trends across multiple metrics
Identify hotspots across repositories or teams
Find top contributors or activity patterns
Use Cockpit dashboards when you need:
Deep drilldowns
Detailed PR level analysis
Custom filters or precise metric investigation
Example Prompts to Try
Here are a few prompts that typically work well:
• Show cycle time trend for the Y team in the last 3 months • Compare review time and coding time for Team X this quarter • Which repositories have the highest unreviewed PRs • Show the top contributors by merged PRs in the last 30 days • Identify repos with the highest hotfix rate this quarter
How to enable Lucy
Lucy can be enabled from Configurations -> AI -> Lucy
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