CodeRabbit First Review

Overview

Prove installation and review behavior with a synthetic reversible PR. Avoid production secrets, branch-rule changes, and timing promises.

Prerequisites

• Identify the CodeRabbit organization, Git provider, repository, plan, and accountable owner.
• Read references/official-docs.md and re-check any time-sensitive contract before execution.
• Use synthetic or read-only evidence until the approval boundary is satisfied.
• Preserve the repository's independent CI, security, and human-review requirements.

Current Contract

• CodeRabbit works with defaults; YAML is optional customization.
• Repository YAML belongs at root and is read from the feature branch.
• Draft reviews are disabled by default.
• Configuration and review commands expose or control review state.

Authentication

Treat Git-provider sessions, CodeRabbit web sessions, CLI credentials, and CodeRabbit API keys as separate credentials. Use only an already-approved session or secret-manager reference, never print a secret, and do not place credentials in .coderabbit.yaml, source files, logs, or deliverables.

Instructions

1. Choose an approved test repository and verify installation scope.

2. Create one harmless feature-branch change and optional minimal schema-linked YAML.

3. Open a non-draft PR and observe walkthrough, findings, and CI.

4. Respond once, then close or merge under normal policy and clean up.

Tool Discipline

• Use Glob to locate candidate configuration and evidence files without widening scope.
• Use Grep to find relevant fields, commands, identifiers, and stale claims.
• Use Read to inspect the smallest required files and authoritative evidence.
• Use Write only for a new approved local draft or evidence artifact.
• Use Edit only for a bounded approved change whose rollback is known.
• Do not use these file tools as a substitute for authenticated CodeRabbit or provider operations.

Approval Boundaries

Require owner approval before installation, a production-repository test PR, or merge. Keep analysis and drafts local until approval is explicit, and record who approved the action and its scope.

Output

A receipt with repository, branch, PR, config hash, review surfaces, CI, and cleanup. Include source dates, unknowns, and the exact boundary between observed fact and recommendation.

Error Handling

Examples

Example 1

Validate a private-repository installation with a docs-only PR.

Example 2

Confirm a chill profile change is read before merge.

Validation

• Confirm every claim against the dated sources in references/official-docs.md.
• Verify the requested scope, owner, approval, happy path, failure path, and rollback.
• Re-read the effective configuration or provider state after any approved change.
• Report unsupported fields, undocumented endpoints, and unverified assumptions as failures.

Resources

• Official documentation and contract notes
• Re-check the dated contract before any live operation.
• Treat unresolved or changed vendor behavior as a stop condition.