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Graphite

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the six Ws · specification

W1 Who

Built by Graphite (formerly withgraphite) for engineering teams managing high-throughput code review.

W2 What

Provides stacked pull request workflows, an AI reviewer, a merge queue, and developer productivity metrics.

W3 Where

Used through a CLI, VS Code extension, and web app synced with a team's GitHub account.

W4 When

Launched publicly around 2022 and rebranded its domain to graphite.com while expanding AI review in 2026.

W5 Why

Speeds up review cycles for teams that split large changes into smaller stacked commits.

W6 With

Requires GitHub account access and syncing of pull requests through Graphite's service.

W7 Watch

Commercial SaaS, closed source, code and PR metadata are synced to Graphite's servers for review and metrics.

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