Review Pull Requests

When you open a PR, trigger the PR Review agent to get comprehensive feedback on your code changes. The agent acts like a staff engineer reviewer, catching architectural issues, suggesting improvements, and ensuring your code integrates well with the existing codebase. PR Review Agent in action showing detailed code feedback

Expert Review Capabilities

  • Architectural Consistency: Ensures code changes align with existing architecture and design patterns
  • Separation of Concerns: Validates proper responsibility isolation and code organization
  • Design Simplicity: Identifies overcomplicated solutions and suggests simpler alternatives
  • Functional Correctness: Verifies features work as intended with comprehensive testing
  • Error Handling & Edge Cases: Reviews error conditions and boundary case coverage
  • External Integration Safety: Checks timeouts, retries, and error handling for external calls

Structured Review Process

  1. Context Analysis: Examines codebase architecture, patterns, and existing conversations
  2. Comprehensive Review: Uses design review tools to analyze against 12 quality criteria
  3. Issue Validation: Verifies all suggestions are accurate and actionable
  4. Strategic Feedback: Selects top 3 highest-priority issues with clear solutions
  5. Formatted Comments: Provides GitHub-style reviews with file links and specific recommendations

When to Use

  • Before merging any PR: Get a second pair of eyes on your changes
  • For junior developers: Learn best practices through detailed feedback
  • Complex features: Ensure architectural consistency with existing code
  • Critical code paths: Extra validation for important system changes
  • Team standards: Maintain consistent code quality across your team