Lesson 3.2 · Make it part of the team · 7 of 8
Review pull requests with Devin Review
When an agent writes more of the code, review becomes the bottleneck. This lesson shows how to open a pull request in Devin Review, what it adds, and how to turn on automatic reviews.
By Trevor Lowing, Devin Ambassador
Checked against Devin's documentation on 2026-11-12
After this lesson you can
- Open any pull request in Devin Review
- Name what Devin Review adds to a normal diff
- Turn on automatic reviews for yourself or your team
If Devin writes more of your code, you will spend more of your day reviewing. Devin Review is built to make that part faster. It works on any pull request, whoever wrote it.
Read the steps as text
- Open it. The web app, a link swap, or a /devin review comment.
- Read a sorted diff. Related changes are grouped, and moved code is shown as moved.
- Triage the findings. Likely bugs and security issues, each with a label.
- Ask and fix. Chat about the change, or have a fix applied as a commit.
- Decide. Comments and approvals sync back to GitHub. You choose whether it merges.
- Open it. The web app, a link swap, or a /devin review comment.
- Read a sorted diff. Related changes are grouped, and moved code is shown as moved.
- Triage the findings. Likely bugs and security issues, each with a label.
- Ask and fix. Chat about the change, or have a fix applied as a commit.
- Decide. Comments and approvals sync back to GitHub. You choose whether it merges.
Where it works
Devin Review supports GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and Bitbucket. Capabilities vary by provider, and GitHub has the most complete set of actions.
Four ways in
- The web app. Go to
app.devin.ai/reviewto see pull requests assigned to you, written by you, or waiting on your review. - A link swap. For a GitHub.com pull request, replace
github.comwithdevinreview.comin the link. - A comment. Write
/devin reviewat the start of a comment on a GitHub pull request. You need write or admin access and a linked Devin account. - From a session. When Devin opens a pull request, use the Review button in the chat.
Public pull requests do not need a Devin account. Private ones need you to sign in.
What it adds to a diff
- Related changes grouped together, instead of files listed alphabetically.
- Moved and copied code shown cleanly, not as a large delete plus a large add.
- Likely bugs, labeled. Bugs are marked Severe or Non-severe. Flags are marked Investigate or Informational.
- Security findings. Each has a severity of Critical or Warning and, where one applies, a CWE identifier. CWE is the standard catalog of software weakness types.
- Chat that knows the codebase. Ask about the pull request, or about any single comment, bug or flag.
- Fixes. Ask the chat for a change, review it, and apply it as a commit on the pull request branch. A separate feature, Auto-Fix, starts a Devin session to work through the findings.
On GitHub, the comments, approvals and change requests you make in Devin Review sync back to the pull request.
Turn on automatic reviews
For yourself: go to Settings > Preferences, find the Devin Review section, and choose Auto review PRs created or Auto review PRs ready for review.
For a team: an admin sets the rules under Settings > Review. A rule can run when a pull request is created or when it is ready for review, and either once or on every push.
What stays with you
Labels and severities help you decide where to look first. They do not decide for you. Whether the change should exist, and whether it is safe to merge, is still your call.
A note on cost
Anyone can review public GitHub pull requests free at devinreview.com. On the Teams plan, Devin Review uses the team’s shared credits. The last lesson covers how plans and usage work.
Check what you learned
3 questions. Nothing is recorded.
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Replace github.com with devinreview.com in the link. For a GitHub.com pull request, swapping github.com for devinreview.com in the link opens it in Devin Review.
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No. Public pull requests do not need an account. Public pull requests don't require a Devin account. Private ones require signing in.
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/devin review. Comment /devin review at the start of a comment. You need write or admin access and a linked Devin account.
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