Traverse

Traverse is my code review thread.

I do not want an AI reviewer that writes ten performative comments so everyone can pretend review happened. I want the first pass that says: this change is safe, this change is suspicious, and this one needs a human.

What It Should Be Good At

• Finding real bugs.
• Spotting security regressions.
• Noticing missing tests.
• Explaining why a diff feels risky.
• Knowing when a review comment should turn into actual remediation work.

The Product Shape

Traverse belongs in the pull request, not in a separate dashboard no one checks. The first pass should show up as a triage comment with a review-readiness score and findings grouped by blocking, warning, and informational.

The parts I want:

• GitHub App install and PR webhook handling.
• AI triage pass for security, style drift, dependency changes, complexity, and test coverage delta.
• Custom team rules like "auth changes always need a human."
• Human reviewer routing when the change is too risky for a bot-only pass.
• A feedback loop where accepted and rejected findings teach the next review.

The product only works if it respects reviewer attention. The best comment is often the one it does not leave.

The Taste Test

If it sounds like a lint bot with a thesaurus, it failed. If it saves a maintainer thirty minutes and catches the thing they would have cared about, it worked.