@Smartpigai: Previously the official AI code review assistant within Alibaba Group, it has served tens of thousands of developers and identified millions of code defects over the past two years. Now it is open-sourced: Open Code Review. It is not about having AI 'casually glance at a diff', but about engineering AI Code Review. It…

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Alibaba has open-sourced its internal AI code review assistant Open Code Review, an engineered CLI tool for code review that reads Git diffs and generates structured review comments with line-level annotations.

Originally the official AI code review assistant within Alibaba Group, it has served tens of thousands of developers and identified millions of code defects over the past two years. Now it is open-sourced: Open Code Review. It is not about having AI 'just glance at a diff', but about engineering AI Code Review. It can read Git diffs, analyze code changes with context, and generate structured review comments with line-level locations. For developers: self-check before submitting PRs, reducing rework. For reviewers: spend less time on low-level issues and focus on architecture and business logic. For teams: it can accumulate rules and integrate with GitHub Actions / GitLab CI. In a word: It does not replace human review, but makes team code review more efficient, more consistent, and more valuable. GitHub: https://github.com/alibaba/open-code-review…
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