Build Greptile
KINDAreplaces $30/mosaves $360/yrback to the verdict
Before step 1
you will need
- GitHub App registration with webhook secret and private key
- An LLM API key (embeddings plus a strong reasoning model)
- A small always-on host or tunnel to receive webhooks
- Local disk for the vector index, roughly proportional to repo size
- Willingness to iterate on the review prompt for weeks
Delivery order
Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands.
done whenThe project starts from a documented command in a clean checkout.
Implement the primary data model and core workflow.
done whenThe main object can be created, read and changed end to end.
Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence.
done whenBad input is refused with a readable message and nothing is left corrupted.
Cover the critical path with automated tests.
done whenThe highest-risk behavior fails the suite when it breaks.
Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step.
done whenA fresh clone reaches the first successful workflow using only the README.
That is the whole plan for Greptile. What it deliberately does not cover is below · check the gaps before you call it a replacement.
- Tuned false-positive suppression: their bot has been beaten into silence by thousands of teams, yours has not
- Incremental reindexing and monorepo handling that does not choke on a 500k file tree
- Memory of past reviews so the same nit is not raised on every force push
- Team-level config, custom rule sets, and per-repo style learning from accepted or dismissed comments
- Bitbucket, GitLab, and self-hosted host support, plus SOC 2 paperwork your security team will ask for
Need the files? The project pack on the verdict page hands your agent the whole brief · more dev tools.