review-gate

Most code-review plugins in the ecosystem stop at annotating a diff; none of them actually block a bad merge from proceeding. review-gate closes that gap by turning review into a hard gate: a merge is only unlocked after deterministic rule checks and a team approval quorum are both satisfied. Findings are graded severe, warning, and suggestion, produced by built-in static rules (leftover TODOs, debugger statements, console logs, hardcoded secrets, and more) and optionally enriched by an LLM. The model can only add findings; it can never bypass a threshold.

The pass/fail verdict is a pure function of persisted state - fully reproducible and free of model judgment. Team approval supports a configurable quorum, and a re-review invalidates stale approvals and acknowledgements. Every run, vote, acknowledgement, and export is appended to an immutable audit log, exportable as a JSON or Markdown compliance report. All tools and CLI commands emit machine-readable JSON with correct exit codes, ready for GitHub Actions, pre-commit hooks, or branch-protection policies.

Ideal for teams that treat merge quality as a hard requirement - regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, or security-critical projects that need an auditable compliance trail, and engineering organizations that want CI to automatically block low-quality pull requests. Individual developers can likewise upgrade review from a polite suggestion to an enforceable checkpoint, leaving a traceable record of every merge decision.