Automated Review

What is an Automated Review

Automated review is using a separate agent pass, distinct from the one that actually wrote the code, to check a diff for bugs, security issues, or style problems before it ever reaches a human reviewer. The separation matters: the agent that just wrote something is poorly positioned to catch its own blind spots, a fresh pass with no investment in the original approach looks at the same diff differently.

This works well for the kind of issue a checklist can catch: an obvious security mistake, a missed edge case, a style convention the project always follows, a pattern that looks like the exact bug that caused a past incident. It is a real filter, catching a meaningful share of issues before a human ever has to spend time on them.

It is not a substitute for a human reviewer, it is a pass that runs before one, meant to reduce how much of a human's attention gets spent on things a systematic check could have caught. Judgment calls about whether an approach was the right one in the first place still land with a person, automated review narrows what reaches them, it does not replace the review itself.