roborev is a local continuous-review system designed for repositories where AI coding agents produce commits faster than a conventional pull-request review cycle can respond. Running roborev init installs a post-commit hook; each commit is queued for background review while the developer or agent continues working. Findings remain available through an interactive terminal UI and command-line views instead of disappearing into transient chat context. The tool can review one commit, an entire branch or uncommitted changes, export review history as JSON, and group related findings so teams have an auditable trail for agent-generated code.
The distinctive workflow is the fix loop. roborev fix passes open findings to a configured coding agent, and roborev refine repeats fix, commit and re-review until the queue passes or a configured iteration limit is reached. Optional agent hooks watch Codex, Claude Code or Factory Droid sessions and prompt the active agent when review debt crosses a threshold. The official README also documents specialized analysis jobs, event hooks, issue-tracker integrations and configurable review categories such as correctness, security, tests, dead code and refactoring. Reviews are orchestrated on the user's machine, but the selected coding agent or model can still send code or prompts to its own provider.
Choose roborev when a team wants review feedback at commit time and wants agents to close findings while the implementation context is still fresh. It complements rather than replaces human approval, repository policy, tests, CI and security scanning; an automated reviewer can miss defects or produce false positives, and fully automatic refine loops need iteration limits plus clean rollback boundaries. CodeRabbit and Greptile are stronger fits for hosted pull-request review and organization-wide repository integrations, while Graphite focuses on stacked changes and review workflow. roborev is free under MIT; any cost comes from the coding-agent subscription, API usage and local compute used to perform reviews and fixes.
