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Local reviews

Review a branch on your machine before a PR exists, including work a coding agent just handed you (desktop only).

A local review shows a branch's committed diff against a base, plus your uncommitted changes, and updates as you edit. It reads git on your disk, so it needs the desktop app. On the web, Local reviews shows what the feature does instead.

Start one

Open Local reviews and click + Review (add the repository with Add repo first). Pick the Repo, the Worktree, the Head (the branch you are reviewing) and the Base to compare against, then press ⌘Enter. A repository can hold several local reviews at once, one per worktree, and they survive restarts.

From a Claude Code session, run /pyor:review to open the session's working tree in Pyor. /pyor:ai-review also writes AI hints and grouping, which stream into the diff while the session works.

Review it

A local review has Overview, Commits and Changes tabs, and the same diff, rail, grouping and AI as a pull request. Your notes stay on your machine and never touch GitHub.

Source Control is a third file-rail mode, laid out like a git client: Merge Changes, Staged Changes and Changes. Stage with s, unstage with u, stage or unstage everything with Shift+S and Shift+U, and commit from the message box with ⌘Enter.

Hand it back

  • Export… writes your notes to one file for a coding agent (Export for LLM…).
  • A review opened by /pyor:ai-review has Send to Claude, which sends your comments back into the running session.
  • Push & PR… (or Create PR…) opens the pull request when you are done.