You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
4Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Code ReviewArea: what it touches
RemovedKind: in v2.1.232,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
/code-review used to be able to hand itself off to a scripted background pipeline instead of reviewing inline. That branch is gone, together with its scope, find, verify, sweep and synthesize stages, their schemas and effort levels, and the instructions about waiting for a completion notification. Reviews now always run inline, and the inline multi-agent review prompt is unchanged.
Evidence
Workflow-backed code review, Run the workflow-backed code review at
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Added sinceA small documentation edit on Error reference touched a line naming /code-review after this was published.Ultrareview clones <owner>/<repo> in the cloud with the GitHub account connected to your Claude account, and none is connected (or the connection expired). To fix: run /web-setup to reuse your GitHub CLI login, or connect an account at htt…errorssee the edit
How sure we are
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesA small documentation edit on Error reference touched a line naming /code-review after this was published.
Anthropic's release notes agree/code-review at high, xhigh, and max effort now runs in a background agent like the other levels