Code Review Enviornment for the Modern Era
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Plannotator opens a local diff viewer (git, jj, p4). You annotate lines, tokens, or comment on files, and when you're done they feed straight into your agent session; creating an automated feedback loop.It works on local diffs, commits, branches, worktrees, and GitHub/GitLab PRs. The PR view lets you annotate the descriptions and comments while also being able to filter bot comments.The core tool enables focused manual review, the optional AI layer: - Ask AI: Ask questions directly inline - Guided Reviews: Have an agent reorganize a large diff into semantic overview sorted by importance (inspired by linear) - Review Agents: Run review agents whose findings land as inline annotations. Review jobs can be your own skills that plannotator links to locally. There's also a local API, your agents can POST findings or other markers/insights/notes onto the diff. Every annotation you make is saved to ~/.plannotator. Point an agent at that history and repeated feedback distills into a custom review skill (compound engineering).Plannotator works with most agents and the AI features utilize core model subscription providers.Free, MIT/Apache 2.0, runs entirely on your machine.https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator
HN · launched Jul 6, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 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
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a local diff viewer web/desktop interface that executes local VCS commands (`git diff`, etc.) and formats user annotations into text prompts for AI agents.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 372 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #346 of 373 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 249 days after the earliest competitor.
- Plannotator · hn · 2026-06-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Diffo · ph · 2026-10-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- jj diff review integrated with agents · hn · 2026-05-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Revdiff · hn · 2026-04-12 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Agent.reviews · hn · 2026-10-07 · 72 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Crit · hn · 2026-05-08 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Ming — Review AI-Written Code · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- CodeCrab · ph · 2026-10-15 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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