Stage CLI
An easier way of reading your AI generated changes locally
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Hey HN! We're Charles and Dean. A few weeks ago we posted about Stage, a code review tool that guides you through reading a PR step by step - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796818.We got a lot of great feedback but also heard from many people that they wanted to have the chapters experience even before opening a PR… so we built the Stage CLI as the local, open-source version that anyone can try.Here’s a quick demo video: https://www.tella.tv/video/stage-cli-demo-f55qIt works with any coding agent of your choice. The skill instructs the agent to read your current branch’s changes, break them down into separate logical chapters, and open them in a local browser.We’ve found that reading changes this way is a lot easier for us than reading them in an IDE or other similar CLI tools, which present diffs to you in repository tree order. You can see a few examples of what it feels like here: https://stagereview.app/explore.Try it out and let us know what you think! Would love to hear any feedback :)
HN · launched May 7, 2026 · 46 upvotes (top 17%) · 0 views
Niche: automated code review tools · 204 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -22% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes Stage CLI is a command-line tool that parses local git diffs and uses an LLM API to group changes into step-by-step review 'chapters'.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: GitHub web interface for code review, Claude Code for applying review comments, tuicr (native CLI diff tool), git diff
Concerns raised: Performance issues with large commits (hundreds/thousands of lines), Not suitable for solo workflow without pull requests, Pricing ($30/mo) too expensive for hobbyist use, Stage tool and hosted version slower than GitHub web
Feature requests: Virtualization/windowing for better performance on large diffs, Support for direct commit review (not just PRs), Use agent plan/task history to infer chapters beyond diff, Highlight load-bearing changes vs routine changes in UI, Local change condensing to reduce review friction and compute costs
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 289 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #56 of 290 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 184 days after the earliest competitor.
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