# The Unblocked Blog

URL: https://getunblocked.com/blog/

Insights on AI coding agents, developer productivity, and engineering team context from the Unblocked team.

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- [Your agents lack context. Here's how to fix "You're absolutely right."](https://getunblocked.com/blog/your-agents-lack-context/) — How to build the context engine AI agents need to produce organization-aware, permission-safe, and genuinely useful code. A talk by Unblocked Founder & CEO Dennis Pilarinos from LeadDev London (LDX3). _(2026-06-17T15:00:00Z)_
- [Measuring AI productivity: Why your numbers are flat and your rework is up](https://getunblocked.com/blog/measuring-ai-productivity/) — Across engineering organizations AI usage is up ~65% but PR throughput rose only 7.76%. Here's why your productivity dashboard can't tell motion from delivery, and four metrics you can baseline next week with nothing but gh, jq, and git. _(2026-06-17T15:00:00Z)_
- [Unblocked now offers Datadog and Sentry integrations](https://getunblocked.com/blog/unblocked-now-supports-datadog-and-sentry-integrations/) — Incident investigations stall in reconstruction. You dig through PRs, Slack, Jira, and APM data to figure out what changed. New Datadog and Sentry integrations bring incidents, logs, and metrics into the Unblocked context engine, so one question returns a synthesized answer from every source. _(2026-04-30T19:29:00.000Z)_
- [The next era of Unblocked: context for agents](https://getunblocked.com/blog/unblocked-context-engine-for-agents/) — The Unblocked MCP is now generally available, along with a CLI, and cookbook of recipes for common use cases, making Unblocked as powerful for agents as it's always been for engineers.   _(2026-04-28T13:51:00.000Z)_
- [OSS Repo Rules Agent: give your coding agent a memory of your team's rules](https://getunblocked.com/blog/oss-repo-rules-agent/) — We're open-sourcing repo-rules-agent, a CLI tool that turns CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .cursorrules, and ~40 other rules files into a queryable index any coding agent can consult on demand. _(2026-04-23T21:00:00.000Z)_
- [OSS Social Graph Builder: map how your engineering team actually collaborates](https://getunblocked.com/blog/oss-social-graph-builder/) — We're open-sourcing Social Graph Builder, a CLI that builds a weighted collaboration graph from GitHub PR history. It maps who reviews whose code, detects teams, identifies domain experts, and flags knowledge silos. _(2026-04-17T22:00:00.000Z)_
- [Your Agents Aren't in 50 First Dates. They're in Memento.](https://getunblocked.com/blog/50-first-dates-memento/) — The "50 First Dates" analogy for AI agents is too generous. What's actually happening looks a lot more like Memento. Agents don't wake up to a clean briefing. They wake up to Polaroids and tattoos, and they're confidently stitching together the wrong picture. _(2026-04-17T16:07:00.000Z)_
- [A context layer is not a context engine](https://getunblocked.com/blog/a-context-layer-is-not-a-context-engine/) — Context layers give AI agents information they can use. Context engines give them understanding they can act on. The difference determines whether your AI investment plateaus or scales. _(2026-04-06T22:29:56.000Z)_
- [As questions get more complex, Unblocked expands to meet them](https://getunblocked.com/blog/as-questions-get-more-complex-unblocked-expands-to-meet-them/) — Developers are asking Unblocked harder questions. What started as focused lookups has expanded into questions that span systems, history, and organizational context. To support that shift, we've expanded the search backend that powers Unblocked. _(2026-04-01T21:38:39.000Z)_
- [REPL is dead, long live REPL](https://getunblocked.com/blog/repl-is-dead-long-live-repl/) — Developers have always moved up abstraction layers: we stopped writing assembly so we could think in functions. Now agents are forcing us up another layer, towards intent but we’ve never had a probabilistic layer until now. _(2026-04-01T21:29:05.000Z)_
- [New analytics: see how your team is using Unblocked](https://getunblocked.com/blog/new-analytics-see-how-your-team-is-using-unblocked/) — New Unblocked analytics give admins a clear picture of how their teams are adopting the full value of Unblocked, providing context to coding agents, getting high-quality code review, and receiving answers to their technical questions. _(2026-03-30T17:29:50.000Z)_
- [Finally, everyone is talking about context](https://getunblocked.com/blog/context-aware-dev-tools-arent-quite-there-yet/) — Developer tools promise "context-aware" AI, but more data access isn't context. The AI development stack needs a new infrastructure layer -- a context engine -- to turn information into understanding. _(2026-03-02T20:32:26.000Z)_
- [Unblocked vs Greptile: Best code review tool comparison for your team (February 2026)](https://getunblocked.com/blog/unblocked-vs-greptile-code-review-comparison/) — Unblocked vs Greptile code review tool comparison for February 2026. See which tool fits your team's needs with organizational context vs repository analysis. _(2026-03-02T20:32:26.000Z)_
- [What your coding agent can't see](https://getunblocked.com/blog/what-your-coding-agent-cant-see/) — AI coding tools understand your code—but not the decisions behind it. The Unblocked MCP connects your agent to Slack, PRs, and tickets so it can answer "why," not just "what." Your agent finally understands your organization, not just your repo. _(2026-02-09T21:44:54.000Z)_
- [Building AI Code Review: A Conversation with Richie](https://getunblocked.com/blog/building-ai-code-review-a-conversation-with-richie/) — AI code review inherits human biases—and adds new ones. This post and podcast explore how we built a reviewer that finds real bugs without adding noise. _(2026-01-30T23:23:29.000Z)_
- [Building context into everything:
A conversation with Dennis, CEO](https://getunblocked.com/blog/building-context-into-everything-a-conversation-with-dennis-ceo/) — In this post and podcast, Unblocked's CEO shares why he started the company, why context is changing everything, and what happens left and right of code gen. _(2026-01-30T23:23:29.000Z)_
- [Ceding control: The future of UX Design in the age of agents](https://getunblocked.com/blog/ceding-control-the-future-of-ux-design-in-the-age-of-agents/) — AI tools ask engineers to give up control—but without context, the tradeoff isn't worth it. This post and podcast explore what's missing and what makes adoption stick. _(2026-01-30T23:23:29.000Z)_
- [The history & evolution of devtools from researchers in applied AI](https://getunblocked.com/blog/the-history-evolution-of-devtools-from-researchers-in-applied-ai/) — From the Apple II to Claude Code, developer tools keep cycling through the same tensions. This post and podcast explore what we tried, threw away, and where it's all heading. _(2026-01-30T23:23:29.000Z)_
- [What happens when you put three AI tool builders in a room together](https://getunblocked.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-put-three-ai-tool-builders-in-a-room-together/) — In this fireside chat and podcast, we discuss what developers actually want from AI tools—and why privacy, context, and knowing what you don't know matter. _(2026-01-30T23:23:29.000Z)_
- [Why MCP isn't enough: Enhancing agent capabilities with a context engine](https://getunblocked.com/blog/why-mcp-isnt-enough-enhancing-agent-capabilities-with-a-context-engine/) — MCP as a protocol alone hasn't delivered on its promise—but wiring it to a context engine changes the game. This post and podcast cover how Unblocked helps agents stay on the rails. _(2026-01-30T23:23:29.000Z)_
- [Building AI Code Review with context as a first-class system](https://getunblocked.com/blog/building-ai-code-review-with-context-as-a-first-class-system/) — AI code review often increases noise instead of improving quality. This post explains how we built a context-aware reviewer by synthesizing PR history, docs, conversations, and architecture so reviews surface the issues that matter. _(2026-01-22T23:47:15.000Z)_
- [Calculating ROI on Unblocked](https://getunblocked.com/blog/roi-calculator/) — Unblocked reduces wasted search time, shortens onboarding, and lowers support overhead—helping teams reclaim measurable productivity. _(2025-11-25T23:08:52.000Z)_
- [Context Engineering: Why LLMs need more than prompts and MCP servers](https://getunblocked.com/blog/context-engineering/) — Context engineering ensures large language models see the right information at the right time, grounding their reasoning in real code, docs, and conversations instead of guesswork. _(2025-10-23T18:52:20.000Z)_
- [I thought transparency would help teams learn faster...I was wrong](https://getunblocked.com/blog/i-was-wrong-about-transparency/) — When we made questions private by default, the results were surprising. The number of questions being asked skyocketed. We didn't change anything else. We just made it safe to ask "dumb" questions. _(2025-10-23T18:52:20.000Z)_
- [“Fake it till you make it” does not work for Developer Tools](https://getunblocked.com/blog/no-faking-dev-tools/) — Every new Unblocked user starts by asking something they already know. Their first interaction with Unblocked is a test. They want to know right away if this system is worth their time, and asking a “known” question is the simplest way to do that. _(2025-10-23T18:52:20.000Z)_
- [Introducing Audit Logs](https://getunblocked.com/blog/audit-logs/) — Admins now have a clear, searchable record of the key actions happening across Unblocked so you can stay in control, spot issues early, and keep your workflows running smoothly. _(2025-09-29T19:59:41.000Z)_
- [Attaching Files to Your Questions](https://getunblocked.com/blog/file-uploads/) — You can now upload local documents and images for Unblocked to reference directly in a question. _(2025-09-29T19:59:41.000Z)_
- [Introducing the Unblocked Answers API for Custom Workflows](https://getunblocked.com/blog/answers-api/) — Today we are launching our new Answers API, which lets you integrate Unblocked’s Q&A features directly into your internal tools. _(2025-07-31T14:52:20.000Z)_
- [Introducing Unblocked MCP Server (Beta)](https://getunblocked.com/blog/mcp-beta/) — Unblocked is now available as an MCP server, supercharging tools like Cursor, Windsurf and VSCode. _(2025-07-29T22:08:33.000Z)_
- [New in Unblocked: Data Source Presets, Automated CI Triage, Public API & More](https://getunblocked.com/blog/unblocked-updates-2025-apr-2/) — You can now select specific data sources to answer questions, get automatic CI triage directly in your pull request, add custom documents via Unblocked API, and more. _(2025-07-29T22:08:33.000Z)_
- [Introducing PR Failure Agent](https://getunblocked.com/blog/pr-failure-agent/) — We're releasing our PR Failure Agent (previously known as Autonomous CI Triage) to general availability. _(2025-07-10T17:45:12.000Z)_
- [Get Answers From Your Asana Projects](https://getunblocked.com/blog/asana/) — Unblocked now integrates with Asana. Ask questions and find answers from your Asana tasks, comments, and project updates. _(2025-06-25T17:04:51.000Z)_
- [New in Unblocked: PR Failure Agent, Unblocked MCP Server (beta) & Asana Integration](https://getunblocked.com/blog/unblocked-updates-2025-jun-25/) — We’re rolling out several new features to bring answers to more places your team works—and expand the sources that power them. _(2025-06-25T17:04:51.000Z)_
- [Bridging the Code Knowledge Gap: Unblocked’s Series A and the Future of Contextual Code Intelligence](https://getunblocked.com/blog/series-a/) — At Unblocked, we’re building a contextual code intelligence platform to give developers the why behind their code, not just the what. We’ve raised $20M to help scale that vision. _(2025-05-23T19:19:17.000Z)_
- [Introducing Automated CI Triage: Your New Build Detective (Beta)](https://getunblocked.com/blog/ci/) — We're excited to announce the upcoming beta release of Unblocked's Automated CI Triage feature, designed to save developers time by automatically detecting and suggesting fixes for CI failures. _(2025-05-06T16:23:46.000Z)_
- [Automate Internal Support With Customized Slack Answers](https://getunblocked.com/blog/customized-slack-answers/) — Many customers want to use Unblocked to help automate their internal support in Slack. You can now have per-channel settings over how answers are generated. _(2025-05-06T16:23:32.000Z)_
- [HTTPS Reverse Tunnel, now without the pain and cost](https://getunblocked.com/blog/chissl/) — chiSSL is a new, lightweight version of chisel that allows you to expose any local server running on your development machine to the internet with a valid SSL certificate, all via a single command. _(2025-05-05T19:13:26.000Z)_
- [Saving time and money with self-hosted runners on EC2 on-demand / spot instances](https://getunblocked.com/blog/ec2-self-hosted-runners/) — We created a custom GitHub Action that automatically deploys self-hosted ephemeral runners to EC2 using Spot or On-Demand instances. _(2025-05-01T18:13:26.000Z)_
- [Faster responses, better answers about projects and issues, role-based permissions, & more](https://getunblocked.com/blog/unblocked-updates-2024-may-22/) — A number of new features are now available in Unblocked, helping you and your team get the answers you need about your codebase. _(2025-04-24T22:29:50.000Z)_
- [A Year of Unblocking Engineering Teams](https://getunblocked.com/blog/beta-learnings/) — Since our launch a year ago, we’ve added many new features, saved our customers hours every day, and reaffirmed our conviction that we’re solving an expensive problem for software development teams. _(2025-04-24T22:25:50.000Z)_
- [IDE improvements and support for all sized teams](https://getunblocked.com/blog/unblocked-updates-2024-feb/) — We’re improving how you ask questions, discover relevant documents / threads / bugs, and making this available to everyone. _(2025-04-24T22:09:18.000Z)_
- [Answers, right at your fingertips, with the new Unblocked macOS app](https://getunblocked.com/blog/unblocked-mac-app-2024-jul/) — The new Unblocked mac app provides a centralized place to ask questions, get answers, and view your past queries. _(2025-04-24T22:03:28.000Z)_
- [Developers Don’t Need More Docs](https://getunblocked.com/blog/documentation/) — When developers start a new project or get stuck on a task, they don’t just need pages of structured documentation; they need answers. _(2025-04-24T22:02:59.000Z)_
- [Introducing Analytics: track Unblocked usage, question ratings, top users, and more](https://getunblocked.com/blog/analytics-dashboard/) — Our new Analytics Dashboard helps you track adoption, spot patterns, and evaluate how Unblocked works for your team—all in one place. _(2025-04-24T21:56:14.000Z)_
- [Question confidential: Asking questions in private with Unblocked’s Incognito Mode](https://getunblocked.com/blog/incognito-mode/) — Incognito mode provides complete privacy for your code questions. Learn best practices to leverage this feature across all platforms. _(2025-04-24T21:47:04.000Z)_
- [Permission-aware Answers: Keep Sensitive Information Secure With Data Shield](https://getunblocked.com/blog/data-shield/) — Unblocked's Data Shield gives you granular access controls to protect your team’s sensitive data while getting answers from Unblocked. _(2025-04-24T21:46:40.000Z)_
- [Your new developer feels like a fraud. It's your onboarding process.](https://getunblocked.com/blog/no-imposter-onboarding/) — New engineers face a tough learning curve, navigating a new role and a complex codebase. It’s no wonder they feel like imposters. We need to reimagine onboarding to better support them. _(2025-04-24T21:43:04.000Z)_
- [How we calculate time saved by Unblocked in the Analytics Dashboard](https://getunblocked.com/blog/time-saved/) — We are giving you some context on how we estimate the time your team saved by Unblocked, based on research, customer feedback, and our observations. _(2025-04-24T21:37:12.000Z)_
- [New in Unblocked: Visualizing Your Code with Diagrams + Dark Mode](https://getunblocked.com/blog/diagrams-and-dark-mode/) — Unblocked now supports Mermaid diagrams for visualizing code and system architectures, plus dark mode for a personalized dashboard experience. _(2025-04-24T00:11:22.000Z)_
- [Unblocked + DX - a new partnership for impact](https://getunblocked.com/blog/unblocked-dx-partnership/) — Unblocked is embarking on a new partnership with DX - the developer intelligence platform designed by leading researchers to give true insight into the productivity of software development teams. _(2024-12-16T22:16:55.000Z)_
- [Customizing Unblocked’s answers](https://getunblocked.com/blog/answer-preferences/) — With Answer Preferences, you now get more control over how Unblocked answers your questions - from setting the length, research depth, and more. _(2024-12-16T22:16:25.000Z)_
- [Introducing new features that make Unblocked even more helpful in Slack](https://getunblocked.com/blog/slack-dms-and-private-channels/) — We’re expanding the ways teams can get fast, accurate, and relevant answers to their questions in Slack with auto responses, support for private channels, bot DMs, and channel summarizations. _(2024-12-16T22:16:19.000Z)_
- [The 12-Line Pull Request That Took 5 Days: A Context Problem](https://getunblocked.com/blog/developer-productivity-is-still-broken/) — We have more AI developer tools than ever, yet many of us still feel unproductive. Why? Maybe it's because we're not using AI to tackle the biggest challenge in software development yet. _(2024-11-26T19:22:01.000Z)_
- [Connecting your code no matter where it lives](https://getunblocked.com/blog/unblocked-updates-2024-sep-20/) — Unblocked now supports connecting to multiple source code systems at the same time. You and your team can get answers from any repository no matter where it lives (GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab). _(2024-09-20T21:40:00.000Z)_
- [Unblocked IDE plugins now in the marketplace](https://getunblocked.com/blog/unblocked-updates-2024-apr-02/) — Download the Unblocked plugin for Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDE’s such as IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm and more. _(2024-04-02T22:52:00.000Z)_
- [Support for Google Drive, better answers for PRs and more](https://getunblocked.com/blog/unblocked-updates-2024-feb-28/) — Import Google Drive documents, improved Pull Request Questions and Answers, Team member overview, Support for Open Source Projects,Suggested Follow-ups Stick Around and more. _(2024-02-28T22:03:00.000Z)_
- [“Get Unblocked”](https://getunblocked.com/blog/get-unblocked/) — Today we're publicly launching Unblocked, a new developer tool that increases your productivity by providing helpful and accurate answers to questions about your codebase. _(2023-10-03T21:11:00.000Z)_