Triaging PR Reviews

Overview

PR review comments — especially from automated reviewers — are hypotheses, not instructions. Each claim must be verified against the actual codebase before action.

Core principle: Verify the claim, classify the concern, evaluate the trade-off, then act. Never implement a suggestion you haven't traced through the code.

When to Use

• PR has pending review comments (human or automated) that need analysis
• Automated reviewer (Copilot, CodeRabbit, etc.) generated suggestions
• Multiple review comments need prioritization before action
• Review feedback seems technically questionable or conflicts with existing patterns
• A merged or closed PR still carries unanswered threads worth understanding — triage runs, but Phase 6 stops and asks before any code is written

Do NOT use when:

• Writing a new review or providing review comments on someone else's PR
• The PR has no pending review comments to analyze