reviewdog

reviewdog Plugin

Automated code review tool integrated with any code analysis tools regardless of programming language. Post review comments to pull requests with diff filtering.

Commands

Code Review

• reviewdog code review — Run code review on project

Utility

• reviewdog _ _ — Passthrough to reviewdog CLI

Usage Examples

• "Run code review on this project"
• "Review pull request changes"
• "Check for code issues"
• "Integrate linter with PR review"

Installation

brew install reviewdog

Or via Go:

go install github.com/reviewdog/reviewdog/cmd/reviewdog@latest

Examples

# Run with GitHub PR checks
reviewdog code review --reporter github-pr-check

# Run with GitHub checks
reviewdog code review --reporter github-check

# Local reporter (print to stdout)
reviewdog code review --reporter local

# Filter by added lines
reviewdog code review --filter added

# Filter by diff context
reviewdog code review --filter diff_context

# Filter by file
reviewdog code review --filter file

# No filter (all lines)
reviewdog code review --filter nofilter

# Fail on errors
reviewdog code review --fail-on-error

# Set report level
reviewdog code review --level error

# Use config file
reviewdog code review --conf .reviewdog.yml

# Also print to stdout
reviewdog code review --tee

# Any reviewdog command with passthrough
reviewdog _ _ --reporter github-pr-check --filter added
reviewdog _ _ --conf .reviewdog.yml --tee

Key Features

• Language agnostic - Works with any programming language
• Multiple reporters - GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, local
• Diff filtering - Only review changed lines
• Linter integration - Supports any static analysis tool
• CI integration - GitHub Actions, Travis CI, Circle CI, GitLab CI
• Configurable - YAML config file support
• Error formats - Supports various linter error formats
• SARIF support - Standard Analysis Result Format
• Code suggestions - Automatic fix suggestions
• Multiple reporters - Can report to multiple platforms

Notes

• Requires CI environment for PR reporters
• Diff filtering only reviews changed lines
• Can be used in CI pipelines
• Supports custom error formats
• Config file at .reviewdog.yml
• Perfect for enforcing code quality