Review pull requests with Reviewer

Reviewer is for people who write or review code on GitHub. It lists your own pull requests and, if you want, the ones waiting for your review. When you ask, an agent drafts the whole review for you to edit; nothing reaches GitHub until you click Post review.

Open it from the sidebar under Developer Tools > Reviewer. It uses your GitHub sign-in from the gh command-line tool (gh auth login); pick the account on the Setup tab.

Turn on review requests#

At first, Reviewer only lists your own pull requests, on the My PRs tab. To fill the Queue with other people's:

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   Open the Setup tab.

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   Under Review other people's PRs, pick Only when I'm asked by name or When I or my team is asked.

Finding pull requests is free: it uses no AI. It checks GitHub about every 15 minutes during weekday working hours at first.

Prepare and post a review#

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   Open a pull request from the Queue and click Prepare review.

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   Wait for the draft: comments on the changed lines, a suggested verdict, and a private note only you see.

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   Edit the comments and the verdict as you like.

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   Click Post review to send it to GitHub.

Posting is always your click, in the desktop app. Nothing that runs on a schedule can post a review. If the pull request gets new commits after the draft, the draft is marked out of date; you can still edit and post it.

Check your own pull requests first#

On the Setup tab, set Pre-review my PRs to Detect only or Auto-prepare (paid) for a repository to have the same review run on your own pull requests, drafts included. It is Off at first. It is advice for you only and can never be posted. Fix these before review starts an agent session on your branch with the findings, after you confirm.