Code Review Process

The Code Reviewer agent performs systematic reviews of code changes, catching bugs, security issues, and quality problems before they reach production.

Review workflow

Step 1: Understand the change

The agent starts by running git diff or git diff --staged to see the full set of changes. It reads the entire diff before making any comments, ensuring findings are considered in context.

Step 2: Read surrounding context

For each changed file, the agent uses Read to examine the surrounding code -- the containing function, class, and module. Changes cannot be properly evaluated in isolation.

Step 3: Check related code

The agent uses Grep and Glob to find: