Control and manage code reviews
This page is about issuing direct commands to CodeRabbit during code reviews. For a general overview of performing code reviews with CodeRabbit, see Review pull requests.
You can control CodeRabbit's behavior with a specific pull request by mentioning the
username of its bot, @coderabbitai, alongside keywords in comments or the pull
request description, as specified by the next sections of this page.
For a complete CodeRabbit command reference, see Code review command reference.
Control automatic code reviews
By default, CodeRabbit automatically reviews every new pull request created in your repository. It updates its review with comments whenever the pull request has new commits pushed to it.
The following sections show you how to tell CodeRabbit to modify this behavior with a specific pull request, such as pausing reviews, or resolving open comments.
For more information about permanently configuring the behavior of CodeRabbit on your repository, see Add a configuration file.
Pause and resume automatic code reviews
You can tell CodeRabbit to pause its automatic reviews of a pull request. If you do, then you can still manually request CodeRabbit to review changes using the commands listed on Code review command reference.
To pause automated reviews of a pull request, post the following comment to the pull request:
@coderabbitai pause
To resume automated reviews after pausing them, post the following comment to the pull request:
@coderabbitai resume
Disable automatic code reviews
To disable automatic code reviews for a pull request, add the following line anywhere in the pull request description:
@coderabbitai ignore
As long as that text remains in the description, CodeRabbit will not automatically review any commits associated with that pull request. You can still chat with CodeRabbit and issue other commands in the pull request comments.
To enable automatic reviews on that pull request, delete "@coderabbitai ignore"
from the pull request description. CodeRabbit commences automatic reviews starting with
the next commit made to the branch under review.
Manually request code reviews
You can ask CodeRabbit to perform a code review at any time. This can be useful when you have paused automated code reviews. Manually requested reviews have two types:
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A full review disregards any comments that CodeRabbit has already made on this pull request, and generates a complete review of the entire pull request.
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An incremental review takes all comments that CodeRabbit has made since its most recent full review into consideration, and generates a review of only the new changes.
To manually request a full review, post the following comment to the pull request:
@coderabbitai full review
To manually request an incremental review, post the following comment to the pull request:
@coderabbitai review
Resolve comments
To have CodeRabbit mark all of its previous comments as resolved, post the following comment to the pull request:
@coderabbitai resolve
Generate summary text
To have CodeRabbit add or update a generated summary of the branch’s proposed changes to the pull request’s description, post the following comment: pull request:
@coderabbitai summary
CodeRabbit appends the summary text to the description under the heading "Summary by CodeRabbit". If CodeRabbit has previously added a summary under that heading, then it replaces it with the new summary.
Get information about CodeRabbit
The commands in this section request CodeRabbit to display its own configuration or documentation.
Display current configuration
To have CodeRabbit post a comment listing out its current configuration with your repository, post the following comment to the pull request:
@coderabbitai configuration
Display a quick-reference guide
To have CodeRabbit post a comment to the pull request with a quick-reference guide to its own commands and other features, post the following comment to the pull request:
@coderabbitai help