Shippie mattzcarey/shippie

Extendable code-review agent (formerly Code Review GPT) that explores your codebase and comments on PRs in CI or reviews staged changes locally.

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Shippie at a glance

Checked 15 Oct 2026

Shippie (v0.21.2, June 2026) runs an agent loop that reads the diff, explores the repo with developer tools and posts focused review comments, for example on exposed secrets, slow code and edge cases. Runs as a GitHub Action, in GitLab CI, on Node or Cloudflare, or locally on staged changes (`npx shippie review`), and can call MCP tools. MIT. Built-in providers are paid APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Cloudflare Workers AI); Ollama needs a code change.

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How much of CodeRabbit does it replace?

2 of 5 jobs. Agentic PR and local review with your own API key; no PR chat, summaries or test generation.

Automated pull-request review comments Partial replacement

Review before pushing (CLI or IDE) Partial replacement

Pull-request summaries and change explanations Not covered

Chat with the reviewer about a PR Not covered

Automated test generation Not covered

For pull-request summaries and change explanations, chat with the reviewer about a PR, automated test generation, see other CodeRabbit alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.

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Runs on my machine? Yes, local review of staged changes, or in your own CI Run the review workflow locally with no server. github.com · shippie#local ↗ 1d ago

Code licence MIT github.com · LICENSE ↗ 1d ago

Model weights licence No bundled weights; depends on the model you connect github.com · shippie#readme ↗ 1d ago

Commercial use Yes, MIT github.com · LICENSE ↗ 1d ago

Paid services needed? A paid model API key is required out of the box; Ollama only by registering a custom provider in the source To use a self-hosted or third-party OpenAI-compatible endpoint (for example Ollama or an internal gateway), register it with `registerProvider()` in `src/app.ts`. github.com · ai-provider-config.md ↗ 1d ago

Hardware Not documented Know the answer? —

Operating systems Node.js 22.19+, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Cloudflare; per-OS support not documented Runs anywhere: Node, Cloudflare, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI. github.com · shippie#ethos- ↗ 1d ago

Setup effort Easy, npx shippie init scaffolds the GitHub Action; add an API key secret Run `npx shippie init` to scaffold the workflow below, then add your provider API key as a repo secret. github.com · shippie#github-action ↗ 1d ago