Customize

The agent follows your instructions file when it writes a review. For Claude Code that is CLAUDE.md; for Copilot CLI, AGENTS.md or .github/copilot-instructions.md. Add the lines below, or your own wording, to the project's file or to your personal one.

Verbosity of the narrative

The walkthrough is as long as the agent judges necessary. Tell it otherwise:

In Review Raven reviews, keep each narrative passage to one or two sentences.

In Review Raven reviews, explain each diff chunk in detail; I do not know this codebase.

When a review is written

By default, the agent writes a review after any non-trivial change, and whenever you ask for one.

Always review:

Run /review-raven when you are done implementing something.

Only on request:

Write a Review Raven review only when I ask for one.

Asking the agent to "prepare a review" starts one at any time; in Claude Code, so does /review-raven.

After approval

On Approve, the agent makes no further changes. To have it continue, say what comes next:

Commit after I approve the review.

After I approve a review, commit, push and open a pull request.

You can always override these default directives in a review comment. For example, when your CLAUDE.md asks to push the changes after approval, comment that the change is fine and should be committed, but not pushed. Your agent should honor the more specific instruction in a review comment over the general one in CLAUDE.md.