/review help text now says the effort level goes before the…

/review help text now says the effort level goes before the target

The /review description now states that the effort level must come first, before any target such as a PR number or path

You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you

1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5

1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5

ElsewhereArea: what it touches

ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.311, 26 Oct 26

ImprovementsSection of the release

What

The help text for /review, the alias of /code-review, now says the review runs "at the effort level given first, before any target". It used to say only "at the given effort level". Other parts of the description were shortened.

Why

The help text now spells out the argument order: type the effort level before the pull request number, branch or path you want reviewed.

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Names in the bundle/review/code-review

How sure we are

One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.

Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed pasting text that mentions an image file, such as ! open /tmp/shot.png or /review look at /tmp/shot.png, attaching the image and…

See this entry in the whole of v2.1.311 →

The build it came inv2.1.311

26 Oct 2026 · 425 entries, this one is #247.

Use it now29
You'll notice242
Nothing to try yet10
Under the hood144

Either side of it

v2.1.310Older
v2.1.312Newer

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Names in this entry

slash/review
Alias of /code-review: reviews the current diff, or a PR number, branch, or path you pass, such as /review 1234, and takes the same effort levels and flags. With no level given, the review reuses the last low through max level you typed; see Review a diff locally for the exact rules. For a deep cloud review, use /code-review ultra. Before v2.1.223, /review was a separate command that ran a single-pass, read-only review of a GitHub pull request by number, listing open PRs to pick from when run with no argument; from v2.1.186 through v2.1.201, it ran the same multi-agent engine as /code-review medium
slash/code-review
Skill. Review the current diff, or a PR number, branch, or path you pass, for correctness bugs. Depending on your model and effort level, the review also covers cleanup opportunities. Pass --fix to apply findings, --comment to post them on the GitHub PR or GitLab merge request, or ultra to run a deep cloud review. Posting to a GitLab merge request requires Claude Code v2.1.257 or later. With ultra on a github.com PR target, pass --post to preselect posting the finished findings to the PR in the launch dialog; --post requires Claude Code v2.1.227 or later. See Review a diff locally for the effort levels, targeting, and how it relates to /simplify. Alias: /review

Anthropic's notes

Upstream's own release notes for v2.1.311 name something this entry names, so the two are probably about the same change. Probably: the pairing is made on a shared name rather than on the words around it.

Fixed pasting text that mentions an image file, such as ! open /tmp/shot.png or /review look at /tmp/shot.png, attaching the image and dropping its path from the prompt
Fixed a finished /code-review, or another skill that runs in a sub-agent, running a second time when a cloud or background session restarts
Changed /code-review to tell Claude to put the effort level first and use max only when asked

The GitHub issue this fixes

#101693Option to disable automatic conversion of image file paths into [Image #N] attachments in the prompt input Open

A model matched these issues to Anthropic's notes, so a link can be wrong.

Is this right?

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

v2.1.257 PR review pages can now refuse single-file publish when not live
Both mention review
v2.1.259 Cloud review timeout messages now show actual wait duration
Both mention review
v2.1.259 Cloud review poll timeout now server-configurable
Both mention review