Custom review checks

Write a review check in plain text

You can now add your team's own review standards to Indent's pull request review and have them applied to every pull request.

Add a file at .indent/agents/<name>.mdc and describe what to look for, for example "Inspect the change for security regressions", or a rule from your review guidelines. Checks live in the repository, so they go through your normal pull request process and apply to everyone who opens a pull request there.

If your team has a rule it keeps repeating in review, that's a good first check.

Decide when each check runs

Each check has a mode:

• Required: the review does not finish until the check has run.
• Automatic: add a note on when it applies, and Indent runs it only on pull requests where that is the case.
• Manual: it runs only when someone asks for it on the pull request.

See which checks are finding things

Every finding in a review names the check that raised it. In Settings → Code Review you can see, per repository, what each check found, how severe it was, whether it was fixed before merge, and what the review cost.