Anthropic debuts pricey and sluggish automated Code Review tool

Anthropic has introduced a more extensive – and expensive – way to review source code in hosted repositories, many of which already contain large swaths of AI-generated code.

Code Review is a new service for teams and enterprise customers that drives multiple agents to scour code repos in a concerted effort to catch unidentified bugs.

The company's Claude models are already capable of conducting code reviews upon demand – you can learn a lot about the quality of AI-generated code by having Claude review its own work. The AI biz also offers a Claude Code GitHub Action that can launch a code review automatically as part of the CI/CD pipeline.

Code Review will do a lot more of that, at greater expense.

"Code Review analyzes your GitHub pull requests and posts findings as inline comments on the lines of code where it found issues," the company explains in its documentation. "A ...