Reviewing from the CLI

entelligence review runs the same review engine that powers pull-request comments, but against your local git diff — no PR, no GitHub App, no comments posted anywhere. It's the fastest way to catch issues before you even push.

Install and authenticate

pip install entelligence-cli
entelligence auth login

Run a review

# Review your current changes (uncommitted first, falls back to committed)
entelligence review
 
# Review only committed changes vs. a base branch
entelligence review --committed-only --base-branch develop
 
# Control how much detail comes back
entelligence review --priority high
entelligence review --mode verbose
entelligence review --plain     # plain text, no rich formatting
entelligence review --prompt-only  # minimal, token-efficient output for feeding into an agent

Findings print straight to your terminal with the same severity tags (CRITICAL / MAJOR / NIT) and confidence score used on PRs.

Using it in a script or agent pipeline

entelligence review --debug     # print raw request/response, log to ~/.entelligence/cli-debug.log
entelligence review --mock      # exercise the output format with fake data, no API call

--prompt-only is specifically shaped for handing straight to another coding agent — minimal formatting, maximum signal-per-token — useful if you want an agent to read the findings and act on them without a human in the loop.

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There's no dedicated exit code for "issues found" vs. "clean" — every run exits 0 on success and 1 on error (auth/network/git failures). If you're gating a script on findings, parse the output (or use --prompt-only/--plain for something easier to parse) rather than the exit code.

A typical workflow

git add .
entelligence review
git commit -m "Your message"

or before opening a PR:

git checkout -b feature/my-feature
# ... make changes ...
entelligence review --priority high
git push origin feature/my-feature

Code is analyzed transiently to generate the review — it is not permanently stored.

See the full CLI reference for every flag, or entelligence review --help.

Setup Overview