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Manual vs Automated Review
PolyLever complements — not replaces — human review. Here's how automated push reviews differ from the traditional PR workflow.
Side-by-side comparison
Traditional manual review
- —Reviews only happen when someone opens a PR
- —Feedback depends on reviewer availability
- —No automatic analysis on direct pushes
- —Context scattered across PR comments
- —Hard to track review history across repos
- —Manual setup of tokens and permissions
PolyLever
- ✓Every push to a connected repo triggers a review
- ✓AI review runs automatically in the background
- ✓Full git diff analyzed on each commit range
- ✓Markdown summary + diff stored in one place
- ✓Per-repository review history with status tracking
- ✓GitHub App install with no PAT management
When to use each
Use PolyLever for immediate feedback on every push — especially on branches without an open PR, solo work, or fast iteration. Keep human review for merge decisions, architecture discussions, and team-specific conventions the AI may not know.
PolyLever stores every automated review in one place so you can trace what was flagged before a PR is even opened.