Claude reviewer-gates enforce PR checks

The author introduces "reviewer-gates," a workflow technique that uses dedicated, single-purpose AI reviewer agents alongside strict Markdown rules to prevent a developer AI agent from marking work as complete until it passes specified checks. While this approach significantly increases PR turnaround time to between 30 and 120 minutes, the author argues that the tradeoff is worthwhile on long-lived codebases because it eliminates repetitive code quality issues and enforces consistency. Open article →