# Crit

11 Hacker News commenters recommended Crit and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend Crit as a local tool for reviewing AI agent plans and code diffs, with agents responding to feedback in a GitHub-style interface. No criticism recorded.

## Why people recommend it

- Makes review stage fun again (2 comments): "crit makes the review stage fun again!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47607471)) "makes the review stage fun again!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641085))
- Reviews agent plans and code locally (2 comments): "gives me a good way to do code review for llm output locally first" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078297)) "I built a similar tool, for reviewing both plans and code" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100625))
- Used daily with Claude Code (2 comments): "It's been great! I found some dedicated users, dogfooding it every day with Claude" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087720)) "it fills a major gap in Claude Code for me as I migrate from Cursor" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063333))
- Boosts productivity, invaluable tool (2 comments): "it's become an invaluable tool in my arsenal since day one" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062554)) "it has boosted my productivity a lot personally" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317119))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [GitHub Stacked PRs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-stacked-prs.md): 64 recommend
- [Gerrit](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gerrit.md): 60 recommend
- [Graphite code review](https://hackerapproved.com/p/graphite.md): 52 recommend
- [CodeRabbit](https://hackerapproved.com/p/coderabbit.md): 34 recommend
- [Stage](https://hackerapproved.com/p/stage.md): 32 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Crit", https://hackerapproved.com/p/crit/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).