nc://git-review

Git Review: read every changed file of a repository as one scroll of text, then stage, commit, push and open a pull request. A Nodecode rewrite of mister-ideas/git-review by mister-ideas.

The original is a review pane for Hermes Desktop: it stacks every changed file of a repository in one continuous diff, next to the chat, and turns the lines a person picks into citations for their next message. This cell keeps what the pane computes and gives it to the model instead of a window: the same read scopes, read one at a time as text the agent can quote, and the same write path.

Get it

Tell the agent "add the git-review cell", or run nodecode add nc://git-review.

Nothing else to install: the cell runs the git you already have, in the repository you name. gh (GitHub) or glab (GitLab) is needed only to open a pull or merge request.

Use it

Ask which changed:

• "Review what you just changed in the parser."
• "What did I leave uncommitted in this repo? Skip whitespace."
• "Show me the branch's net change against main, one file at a time."
• "Step through the three commits on this branch."

The model gets two tools:

• git_review — repo (a path; empty means the session's working directory), scope (unstaged, staged, uncommitted — the default —, branch, commits), path (one file or folder), base, ref (comma-separated commit ids, commits scope), ignore_ws, files_only. It answers the branch, one line a changed file with its +/- churn and its status, and the unified patch, with new untracked files rendered as their own hunks.
• git_commit — message, paths (empty = everything), all, push, pr. It stages, commits with hooks off, publishes a branch that has no upstream, and opens a pull or merge request with gh pr create --fill or glab mr create --fill.

/review [scope] [path] reads the same for the person typing it, and (git-review:review :repo "path" :scope "staged") answers it from eval.

A patch longer than max_chars is cut on a line boundary with a note, so read one scope or one path at a time. A new file over about four hundred lines is named and cut.

Settings

"git-review": {
  "enabled": true,
  "read_only": false,      // refuse stage, commit, push and pull requests
  "base": "",              // what branch and commits compare against; empty picks origin/HEAD, main or master
  "context_lines": 3,      // unchanged lines kept around each change
  "max_chars": 60000,      // the most patch text one call answers
  "new_files": true,       // show the content of new, untracked files
  "timeout_seconds": 20,   // one git command's ceiling
  "repos": []              // paths to fall back on when a session has no working directory
}

Then (restart-cells "nodecode-git-review").

Committing, pushing and opening a pull request are the person's decisions: the cell does them when asked and never rewrites history. read_only refuses all of them in the backend.

Left out

The Desktop pane itself: the split layout, syntax colours, folding of unchanged runs, the file tree, drag-to-cite and the keyboard shortcut are drawing, and a cell answers text. Also left out: the snapshot machinery behind the "Last agent turn" scope (it records the working tree at every message, with an index and object database of its own), the AI-drafted commit message (in Nodecode the agent writes the message), and the dashboard routes the pane polls.

License

MIT. The original plugin is Copyright (c) 2026 mister-ideas: see LICENSE and NOTICE.