Your first review

The fastest path is three commands, run from inside a git repository that has uncommitted changes. Before a review can start you need a ready configuration for one selectable product.

npm install -g diffgazer
cd your-project
diffgazer

Before you press Review Unstaged or Review Staged, make sure:

• Node.js 22 or newer and git are installed.
• The repository has changes to review.
• A configuration is ready: the product tuple is admitted, an exact model is selected, the provider consent (and with it the product's notice) is accepted, and any required live probe has not been left in skipped state.
• The current directory is trusted with read access.

• A git repository with changes to review.
• Node.js 22 or newer, and a git binary on your PATH.
• A supported product configuration. The wizard lists all nine selectable products from the providers reference.

npm install -g diffgazer

cd your-project

diffgazer

On first launch Diffgazer has no saved configuration, so the browser opens into the setup wizard. The steps come from the selected product's setup plan: product selection, endpoint binding, authentication, exact model selection, and the provider consent.

Hosted API setup

1. Pick the product from the nine selectable entries.
2. Bind the allowed endpoint.
3. Choose how the credential is supplied: Enter credential now for a write-only literal, or Use environment reference to bind the product's environment variable. The variable name is fixed per product — there is nothing to type.
4. Select an exact discovered model ID.
5. Accept the provider consent — Diffgazer sends repository content to the provider you configure, using your own credentials, and stores nothing remotely; billing, rate limits, retention and training terms are that provider's. The product's own billing and privacy notice reads alongside it. This is asked once; later configurations acknowledge their product's notice for you unless that notice materially changed. If you skipped the wizard, the same Provider data notice opens the first time you configure a provider (before the credentials dialog), select or verify a configuration, or start a review — Accept and continue runs the action, Not now cancels only that action.

Saving runs no billed probe — your first review verifies structured review support for the exact tuple and model. The optional Verify action on the Providers page (under More, or the v key) checks it sooner and shows the last result.

Example environment-reference flow without embedding a secret:

export GOOGLE_API_KEY=your-provider-key
diffgazer

In the wizard, choose Use environment reference. Diffgazer records the reference, resolves GOOGLE_API_KEY on the server side, and never stores the value. See Environment variables for each product's name.

Before the first review, Diffgazer asks you to trust the current repository. Choose Trust & Continue to save the grant for this directory. If you skip it, review actions stay blocked.

The main menu offers Review Unstaged and Review Staged. Pick one and Diffgazer collects the diff, gathers context, and streams the run live. See reviewing for the run screen in detail.

When the run finishes you land on a summary with severity breakdown and top issues. Press Enter to open the full review and read Details, Explain, Trace, and Patch tabs for each issue.

• Reviewing in the web environment
• CLI reference
• Troubleshooting
• Configuration