Most AI code review tools look at one repo at a time.
But the bug usually isn't in the code that changed. It's in what that change quietly breaks three repos away.
@QodoAI just shipped Cross Repo Review to solve this.
I tested it on my own repos. Here's what it caught.
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A couple more things are landing in v2.4 beta:
- Rules Miner: learns your team's standards from PR review history and turns them into rules Qodo enforces automatically
- Skill Review Standards: makes your skills (skills.md) a managed entity with portal visibility and governance controls
All available across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps. This doesn't replace human review. It augments it and scales it to how much code AI now ships.
Here's the shift underneath this.
AI writes code faster than any team can review it, and a single-PR review can't keep up. The fix isn't more review. It's governance: enforceable standards and oversight across every repo, no matter which tool wrote the code.
Cross Repo Review is the first piece most people will see.
Modern teams work across dozens, sometimes hundreds, of repos.
Change a shared utility, an API contract, or a data schema in one repo, and you can silently break consumers in another.
Single-repo review misses this entirely. So the breakage shows up post-merge, in production.
Most AI code review tools look at one repo at a time.
But the bug usually isn't in the code that changed. It's in what that change quietly breaks three repos away.
@QodoAI just shipped Cross Repo Review to solve this.
I tested it on my own repos. Here's what it caught.
Cross Repo Review maps how your repos depend on each other.
Then on every PR, it reads the related repos and surfaces downstream consumers, breaking changes, and blast radius before you merge.
It tracks four kinds of dependencies: Code, Service, Data, and Pipeline.
Modern teams work across dozens, sometimes hundreds, of repos.
Change a shared utility, an API contract, or a data schema in one repo, and you can silently break consumers in another.
Single-repo review misses this entirely. So the breakage shows up post-merge, in production.
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A couple more things are landing in v2.4 beta:
- Rules Miner: learns your team's standards from PR review history and turns them into rules Qodo enforces automatically
- Skill Review Standards: makes your skills (skills.md) a managed entity with portal visibility and governance controls
All available across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps. This doesn't replace human review. It augments it and scales it to how much code AI now ships.
Cross Repo Review flagged it: that rename silently breaks the desktop app in the other repo, which still expects the old field name. Every command between them would hang and time out.
I never touched the app. The diff looked safe in isolation. The blast radius told a different story.
I tried this on my own setup. I run two repos: a Claude orchestrator backend and a desktop Electron app built on top of it.
I renamed one field in the backend. A clean, consistent rename. Single-repo review saw nothing wrong.
I ran that PR through Cross Repo Review.
Here's the finding that surfaced:
I tried this on my own setup. I run two repos: a Claude orchestrator backend and a desktop Electron app built on top of it.
I renamed one field in the backend. A clean, consistent rename. Single-repo review saw nothing wrong.
I ran that PR through Cross Repo Review.
Here's the finding that surfaced:
Cross Repo Review maps how your repos depend on each other.
Then on every PR, it reads the related repos and surfaces downstream consumers, breaking changes, and blast radius before you merge.
It tracks four kinds of dependencies: Code, Service, Data, and Pipeline.
Here's the shift underneath this.
AI writes code faster than any team can review it, and a single-PR review can't keep up. The fix isn't more review. It's governance: enforceable standards and oversight across every repo, no matter which tool wrote the code.
Cross Repo Review is the first piece most people will see.
Cross Repo Review flagged it: that rename silently breaks the desktop app in the other repo, which still expects the old field name. Every command between them would hang and time out.
I never touched the app. The diff looked safe in isolation. The blast radius told a different story.
@omarsar0 @QodoAI @grok How did Cross Repo Review verify the broken repo link, compared with a normal single repo code review?
**JamesClawn** Qodo's Cross Repo Review uses its Context Engine to index multiple repos + map dependencies/shared protocols (like the WS bridge key).
In the demo, the backend PR renamed the correlation key. It verified the break by retrieving how dair-app (pinned older code) still expected the old key — flagging the cross-repo conflict that would cause 504s in mixed deploys.
Single-repo review only sees the local diff + one repo's context. It has no visibility into the consuming repo's pinned usage, so it misses the impact completely.
