Crit – local review tool for agent plans and code diffs
Crit is a single-binary CLI that opens your file or code diffs in a browser with GitHub-inspired interface. Your favourite agent acts on the feedback and responds back - continue until you're happy. I've been building this for a few months now and it's been helping me a lot juggling parallel conversations with agents, making it easier to actually review the plans they generate and the resulting code - all before it hits GitHub. It also allows you to export the plans to a hosted service (which you can self-host for privacy), to solicit feedback from your team. No account needed, and reviews…
Crit – local review tool for agent plans and code diffs launched on May 8, 2026 with 12 votes, #1,101 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Crit is a CLI tool that displays file changes and code diffs in a browser with a GitHub-like interface for reviewing agent-generated plans and code before deployment. Users can provide feedback directly in the tool, and their chosen AI agent responds and iterates based on comments until changes are approved. The tool supports sharing reviews with team members through an optional hosted service or self-hosted alternative, requires no account setup, and automatically deletes reviews after 30 days of inactivity.
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From the sources
Review your AI agent's code changes in a browser with inline comments and round-to-round diffs. Comment on specific lines, the agent fixes them. Single binary, works locally, any agent.
Your agent just touched 14 files. In the terminal you're scrolling through diffs hoping nothing broke. Crit opens those changes in a browser — click line 47, type "this drops the refresh token", and the agent fixes it. You see exactly what changed, round by round. $ brew install crit $ go install github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/cmd/crit@latest $ nix profile install github:tomasz-tomczyk/crit PS> iwr https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/releases/latest/download/crit-windows-amd64.exe -OutFile crit.exe Then move crit.exe somewhere on your PATH . ARM64 users: swap amd64 for arm64 . WSL users: use the Linux binary instead. They write plans, generate HTML pages, modify running apps. Each…from crit.md
In the maker’s words, at launch
Crit is a single-binary CLI that opens your file or code diffs in a browser with GitHub-inspired interface. Your favourite agent acts on the feedback and responds back - continue until you're happy. I've been building this for a few months now and it's been helping me a lot juggling parallel conversations with…
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