Show HN: Farol – a risk map of a pull request for the person who approves it
Farol is a new open-source CLI tool and GitHub Action designed to assess the risk level of pull requests. It helps developers prioritize code reviews by identifying which files in a change set carry the most risk.
Why it matters
It optimizes the code review process by focusing human attention on high-risk changes, potentially reducing bugs and improving software development efficiency.
A free, open-source CLI and GitHub Action. After your AI review, farol tells the person who approves how risky the merge is and which files carry the risk, so the riskiest changes get the most attention.
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Agents write the code and agents review it. The last call is still a person's: approve the merge or not. That approval is the scarce part, and spread evenly over every pull request it turns into a skim, which is how a one-line change to a shared hook takes down forty pages.
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