Frontier Investigationfor Code Review

Every merge request reviewed for logic, security and performance before a person reads it.

Every merge request gets a first review the moment it opens. Agents read the diff with the rest of the codebase, the ticket and the service it touches, and leave comments with evidence and a suggested change. Style nits stay out. Your reviewers start from the findings that matter, not from line one.

GitLab merge request3 findings

!2318 Add partial refunds to payments-service

Scope
14 files, 612 lines, touches RefundService and the ledger
Logic
Refund can exceed the captured amount on retries
Security
Refund endpoint skips the merchant ownership check
Evidence
Call path, failing test case, related ticket PAY-904
Suggestion
Idempotency key plus an amount guard. Patch attached

Reviewed in 2m 50s. Waiting for the author

[The work behind every merge request]

Code ships faster than ever.Review is where it waits.

01The manual work

Review

A merge request is only the start. A senior engineer still reads every line, traces the call path and guesses what the change breaks.

02The agent handoff

Findings ready

Frontier agents review the diff in context, test their own claims against the code and post findings with a suggested change.

03Your engineers’ role

Decide

Set the review rules once. Read the findings, accept or reject the suggestions, and approve what merges.

[Where CloudThinker fits]

Your stack stays.Agents work inside it.

01Changes

Where code lands

  • GitHubGitHubPull requests
  • GitLabGitLabMerge requests
  • BitbucketPull requests
  • Azure DevOpsRepos and pull requests

No change to your workflow

02Context

Your system of record

  • JiraThe issue behind the change
  • SonarQubeSonarQubeQuality gate results
  • SentryErrors in the code paths touched
  • SemgrepRules your team already wrote

Standards stay yours

03Review

CloudThinkerCloudThinker

  • Read the changeDiff, issue and the code around it
  • Check the logicBusiness rules and edge cases
  • Check the riskSecurity and performance issues
  • Prove itEach comment points to the line and the reason

Comments, never merges

04Response

Reviews, not noise

  • GitHubGitHubReview comments on the lines
  • GitLabGitLabThreads on the merge request
  • SlackSlackSummary to the reviewer
  • JiraFollow-up for larger issues

Humans approve the merge

Logos show common stacks. CloudThinker connects to each one through read-only access you approve.

[Example scenario]

Thursday, 16:40. A refund feature is due.The only payments reviewer is in a meeting.

A 60-engineer fintech team on GitLab and EKS. 40 merge requests a day, two senior reviewers for the payments domain, a release train every Friday.

  1. 16:40

    Merge request opensSignal

    !2318 adds partial refunds: 14 files, 612 lines, across RefundService, the ledger and a new endpoint.

  2. 16:41

    Agent reads it in contextAgent

    Pulls the ticket PAY-904, the callers of RefundService, the ledger schema and the last incidents on this service.

  3. 16:43

    Two real findingsAgent

    A retry can refund more than was captured. The new endpoint skips the merchant ownership check. Both shown with the call path.

  4. 16:43

    A patch, with proofAgent

    Posts a patch with an idempotency key and an amount guard, plus a failing test that proves the first bug.

  5. 17:05

    Author applies the fixYour team

    The author accepts both suggestions. The agent re-reviews the new commit and clears its findings.

  6. 17:20

    Reviewer approves in 15 minutesYour team

    The senior reviewer reads two findings and a clean diff instead of 612 raw lines, and approves before the train.

!2318 Add partial refunds4 messages
  • CloudThinker16:43

    High: RefundService.refund() can exceed captured_amount when the provider retries (no idempotency key). Failing test added: test_refund_retry_overflow.

  • CloudThinker16:43

    High: POST /refunds does not check merchant ownership of the payment. Any merchant token can refund any payment id.

  • Author17:05

    Good catches. Applied both. Pushed a6f91c2.

  • CloudThinker17:07

    Re-reviewed a6f91c2. Both findings resolved, new test passes. No further issues.

from open to first review
3 min
bugs caught before a person read the diff
2
of senior reviewer time, not an hour
15 min

An illustrative example. Team, systems and times are representative, not a specific customer.

[Frontier investigation agents]

Every merge request gets a first review.Your reviewers get the findings.

Agents review in context of the whole service, so findings come with a call path and a test, and your reviewers spend their time on design, not line one.

Find logic bugs
Edge cases, retries, race conditions and broken assumptions, traced through the callers the diff touches.
Catch security issues
Missing auth checks, injection paths and leaked secrets flagged where they enter the code.
Spot performance risks
N+1 queries, unbounded loops and heavy calls on hot paths, before they reach production.
Suggest the change
Each finding comes with a patch or a failing test, ready for the author to apply.

[What changes]

Same team. Same tools.Far less of the work by hand.

MomentTodayWith frontier agents
First reviewWhen a senior engineer is freeMinutes after the merge request opens
What reviewers readEvery line of the diffThe findings, with call paths and tests
Security reviewA separate queue, often skippedPart of every review
Feedback to the authorComments to interpretSuggested changes ready to apply
Review standardsVary by reviewerThe same rules on every merge request

[Integrations]

Connects to the rest of your stack.Read-only to start.

  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Bitbucket
  • Azure DevOps
  • Jira
  • Slack
  • SonarQube
  • Semgrep
  • Snyk
  • Sentry

[Adoption path]

One pilot.Then company-wide.

The rollout follows the four phases of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, so it fits the plan your cloud team already runs.

  1. 01Envision

    Start on one repository

    Turn on review for one busy repository in comment-only mode. Compare the findings with what your reviewers caught.

  2. 02Align

    Write the review rules

    Agree what counts as blocking, which paths need a human expert, and what style issues to ignore.

  3. 03Launch

    Roll out team by team

    Add each team’s repositories with the same rules, so every merge request gets the same first review.

  4. 04Scale

    Make it the default

    New repositories start with review on. Repeat findings feed coding standards and onboarding.

[Customer proof]

FPT Cloud.Results on the record.

FPT Cloud put CloudThinker AI Code Review on live merge requests and caught the defects observable in the code, security findings included, before human review or QC.

Read the case study
precision on production merge requests
~97%
backend logic coverage
Full

[Trust and control]

Agents do the work.Your team keeps control.

You approve every change
Agents propose. Nothing touches production until someone on your team says yes, and you set that rule per system.
Every action on the record
Each step is logged, attributed and reversible, ready for your auditors.
Certified for enterprise
SOC 2 Type II and ISO 42001, with reports in our trust center.
Runs where you need it
In our cloud, through AWS Marketplace, or inside your own account.

[Questions]

What teams askbefore they start.

Does this replace human reviewers?
No. Agents give every merge request a first review. A person still approves what merges, with the findings in front of them.
Will it flood us with comments?
No. You set what counts as a finding. Style issues your linters already cover stay out, and each finding has to show its evidence.
Does our code leave our environment?
Access is scoped to the repositories you connect, and you can run agents in your own account. Talk to us about the setup your security team needs.
Which languages does it cover?
Review works on the languages your services are written in. Start with one repository and check the findings against your own reviewers.

Give every merge request a first review.Keep your seniors for the hard ones.

Start on one busy repository in comment-only mode. See what agents catch before you change a single merge rule.

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