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Crit – local review tool for agent plans and code diffs

  • Hacker News

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 ju...

  • Published: May 8, 2026
  • First seen: May 8, 2026
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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 ju...

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Teams evaluating AI product workflows / Builders comparing emerging tools / Operators tracking early category shifts

Why it matters

Primary discovery source is Hacker News.

Key Features

  • Primary public product URL is https://crit.md/.
  • Description: 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....
  • Listed on Hacker News as "Crit – local review tool for agent plans and code diffs".
  • Source description: 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....
  • Source publish date is 2026-05-08.

Use Cases

  • Primary discovery source is Hacker News.
  • Hacker News mention is recent (2026-05-08).
  • Primary public product URL is https://crit.md/.
  • Description: 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....
  • Listed on Hacker News as "Crit – local review tool for agent plans and code diffs".

Why Now

Crit – local review tool for agent plans and code diffs is appearing on fresh discovery surfaces, so it is worth reviewing while momentum is still forming. Confidence is currently low (41/100), so treat this as an early signal rather than a settled trend.

Community Signals

Trend score

37.5

24h momentum

Rising

Hacker News points

9

Rising

Facts / Signals / Inference / Unknowns

Facts

  • Listed on Hacker News as "Crit – local review tool for agent plans and code diffs".
  • Source description: 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....
  • Source publish date is 2026-05-08.
  • Description: 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....
  • Primary public product URL is https://crit.md/.

Signals

  • Hacker News mention is recent (2026-05-08).
  • Primary discovery source is Hacker News.

Inference

Trust data is still pending

The evidence pipeline has not produced enough structured trust blocks for this product yet.

Unknowns

  • Documentation is not explicitly linked in the current allowed evidence set.
  • No tagline is stored on the current product record.
  • Pricing details are not explicitly linked in the current allowed evidence set.
  • Recent changelog or release history is not explicitly linked in the current allowed evidence set.

Evidence Snapshots

Crit – local review tool for agent plans and code diffs

Listed on Hacker News as "Crit – local review tool for agent plans and code diffs".

Crit – local review tool for agent plans and code diffs official profile

Primary public product URL is https://crit.md/.

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Original Sources

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