Application
Coding
Greptile
1Codebase-aware 2AI 3agent 4reviews 5pull 6requests
the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Built by Greptile for engineering teams that want deep, context-aware automated code review.
W2
What
Builds a dependency graph of the whole codebase to review pull requests with full contextual understanding.
W3
Where
Integrates with GitHub and GitLab pull request workflows and replies to inline comment threads.
W4
When
Founded in 2023 and actively marketed as a code review agent through 2026.
W5
Why
Finds bugs that shallow diff-only reviewers miss by understanding cross-file dependencies.
W6
With
Requires repository indexing access and an underlying large language model to generate review comments.
W7
Watch
Commercial SaaS, closed source, indexes and sends full repository contents to Greptile servers for graph construction.