Stop Getting Roasted in PR Review (CodeRabbit, Locally)

CodeRabbit, an AI-powered code review tool, can be integrated into the pre-PR development workflow via its CLI, a Claude Code plugin, and a Cursor/VS Code extension. The CLI can be installed via curl or Homebrew, authenticated, and then triggered automatically by agent rules in Cursor so that code reviews happen during feature development rather than only at PR time. This allows lower-end AI models to produce better results by incorporating review feedback inline. The tool surfaces critical issues with detailed analysis, sequence diagrams, and copy-paste AI prompts to fix problems, and is actively used on TanStack library PRs.