AI review settings

Within your project’s settings, the AI review section offers controls to tailor the reviewer’s behavior.

Configurable options

AI review settings are configured at the repository level, allowing you to have different configuration options for different repositories.

1. Review instructions

   • Provide general guidelines for the AI in plaintext.

2. Library & framework versions

   • Specify or override detected versions (e.g., React 18, Django 4) to improve suggestion accuracy.
   • Note that, by default, cubic will try to automatically detect the common libraries and versions they use to ensure that it tailors its reviews to those specific ones.

3. Ignore patterns

   • Define files or directories (using regex or glob) that the AI should not analyze (e.g., dist/, docs/).

4. Exclude generated files

   For large repositories, you can tell cubic to ignore files that don’t require review. This is handy for:

   • Data files that don’t need to be reviewed
   • Auto‑generated code produced by build or code‑gen tools
   • Any other files that would make a pull request too large for cubic to process

   You can do this by marking files as generated in your repository’s .gitattributes file:

   # Exclude specific files
   docs/data.txt linguist-generated=true
   
   # Exclude file types
   *.csv linguist-generated=true
   *.pb.go linguist-generated=true
   
   # Exclude entire directories
   data/* linguist-generated=true
   generated/* linguist-generated=true
   

   Files marked as linguist-generated will be:

   • Automatically collapsed in GitHub pull request views
   • Skipped entirely during cubic’s code review

Next steps

• Providing feedback: Refine the AI’s suggestions directly within PR comments.
• Custom rules: Create domain-specific checks to expand beyond general analysis.