A PR review request lands in your queue. You open the diff. The change looks reasonable. But you can't tell if it's correct — because correctness, here, depends on a constraint that lives in the design doc, a previous decision in Slack, and a pattern that was established in another PR three weeks ago.
You'd love to ask AI to review. But AI doesn't see any of those things. So you'd have to be the one assembling the picture, which is most of the work.
Corivo's agent does it the other way around.
The cost of the old way
When the AI doesn't know your project, a "review my PR" ask gets you a generic diff review. The AI checks for the obvious things — naming, simple bugs, style — and misses everything that depends on context outside the file. That includes:
- The Linear ticket the PR is supposedly implementing.
- The design doc that explained the constraint that should have killed the obvious solution.
- The reviewer's comments from the last similar PR three weeks ago.
- The recent decision in Slack that reversed an earlier choice.
A diff review without those is a review you could have skipped.
What Corivo's agent does
You give Corivo one command: "Review the PR I'm looking at."
- Reads the diff — from your active screen, or directly from GitHub.
- Pulls the linked ticket — what was actually being asked for; what the acceptance criteria say.
- Surfaces the design doc — if the ticket links one, or if there's one in your project's wiki on the relevant area.
- Looks at recent decisions — Slack threads where something near this was discussed; previous PRs in the same area.
- Writes the review — flagging things in the diff that don't match the ticket, things that conflict with the design doc, things the team has done differently before.
- You read, accept what's right, drop what isn't, post the review.
The review you post is shaped by the constraints that actually exist around this code, not by the obvious patterns in any codebase.
Status today
What works in the current beta:
- Screen reading. If the PR is open in your browser, Corivo can read the diff and the description.
- Local memory. Patterns about your project's conventions and the history of decisions accumulate.
What the connected tools add:
- GitHub — pull the diff directly, read recent PRs in the same area, surface reviewer comments.
- Linear — pull the linked ticket, the acceptance criteria, the comment thread.
- Notion / Google Docs — read the design doc that constrains this work.
- Slack — surface the thread where the related decision landed.
You can also start from the active browser window. Corivo's screen context names the PR in front of you; connected tools give the agent the deeper source context.
What you'll feel
The first time you get a review back that flags "this looks correct against the diff but conflicts with what was decided in the design doc" — and points at the doc, not just guesses — you stop trusting generic AI code review and start expecting the version that's actually grounded in your project.
The 80% of bug-finding that comes from outside the diff stops being something you skip because the AI couldn't help.