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CodeRabbit Features

1. Pull Request Summary​

Generated upon the creation of a pull request and subsequently updated with each incremental request.

High-Level Summary: This offers a concise overview of the changes in the pull request. It helps the team, including those without technical expertise, to quickly understand the changes and the impact on the product.

CodeRabbit- Pull Request Summary

Walkthrough: A detailed code walkthrough to understand the changes in each file that is part of the pull request, followed by a celebratory poem about the changes.

CodeRabbit- Pull Request Walkthrough Example

2. Code Review feedback​

Code review feedback is posted as review comments on the lines of the code that changed for each file.

Code suggestions are given in a Diff format, which either be copied or committed within the pull request with a single click.

CodeRabbit- Code Review Feedback

A review status is generated for each commit that is reviewed. It displays the commit IDs that were reviewed, the files examined and ignored, as well as the additional comments generated for each review, and so on.

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Review status is useful for understanding the auxiliary context of the review.

CodeRabbit- Review Status

3. Chat with CodeRabbit​

  • CodeRabbit provides conversational capability that allows developers and the reviewers to ask questions, generate code, and get feedback in the context of changes. Just comment on the CodeRabbit review to start the conversation.

  • CodeRabbit learns from your interactions and gets smarter over time. The more you chat, the better it gets.

We support:

  • Inline Comments in Pull Request File Diffs
  • Comments in Pull Requests
  • Comments in Git Issues

Chat with CodeRabbit - Conversation in Pull Requests

4. Issue Validation​

Pull request changes are validated against the linked GitHub or GitLab issue and identifies all other issues which might be affected by this change.

Issue Validation for GitHub/GitLab Issues - CodeRabbit

5. Sequence Diagrams​

CodeRabbit visualizes the changes occuring in any pull request using Mermaid Sequence Diagram Example.

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Advanced Sequence Diagram Example - CodeRabbit

6. Commitable Suggestions​

For quick fixes, CodeRabbit offers one button solution to commit AI recommended changes.

AI Recommended Suggestions - CodeRabbit

Irony in Committable Suggestions - CodeRabbit

7. Learnings​

  • CodeRabbit learns from user chat interactions to gain tribal knowledge on your repositories and organization.
  • CodeRabbit will apply and update these learnings in future reviews.

Learnings from Interactions - CodeRabbit AI