AI agents can write code, they can refactor code, they can even explain code. But they don’t review code like a senior engineer.
They don’t consistently look for subtle bugs. They miss security risks. They don’t always group issues by severity or help you fix them in a structured way.
That’s the gap CodeRabbit Skills are designed to close. They bring the same review loop behind the CodeRabbit CLI into the agentic coding tools developers already use. For teams weighing whether to build this kind of review layer themselves, the maintenance tradeoff is covered in You can build an AI code reviewer. But you probably can't maintain it.
What are CodeRabbit Skills?
CodeRabbit Skills let your AI coding agent initiate CodeRabbit-powered code reviews directly from your local environment, CLI, or IDE. In an agentic SDLC, that matters because review needs to stay close to the agent while the implementation context is still fresh. Once installed, you can simply tell your agent things like:
Review my code
Check for security issues
Review my PR
What's wrong with my changes?
Run a code review
Your agent will automatically work with the CodeRabbit CLI to run a CodeRabbit review and return structured findings. No switching tools. No opening GitHub. No manual setup every time.
Just ask and your agent reviews.
What actually happens when your agent runs a CodeRabbit Skill?
When your agent invokes the CodeRabbit code review skill, it initiates a CodeRabbit review through the CodeRabbit CLI tool. Specifically, it will:
Analyze your changes for bugs, security issues, and anti-patterns
Group findings by severity (critical, warning, info)
Suggest concrete fixes and improvements
Support iterative fix-and-review workflows
Works with the agents you already use
CodeRabbit Skills work across a wide ecosystem of coding agents, including:
Claude Code
Codex
Cursor
GitHub Copilot
Gemini CLI
Continue
Windsurf
And 30+ more
Install in under 30 seconds
Setup is intentionally simple:
## Install CodeRabbit CLI
curl -fsSL https://cli.coderabbit.ai/install.sh | sh
## Authenticate
coderabbit auth login
## Install the skill
npx skills add coderabbitai/skills
Now, your agent can run real CodeRabbit reviews locally.
That’s it.
Try CodeRabbit Skills today
Install CodeRabbit Skills and get real code review right where you work:
https://github.com/coderabbitai/skills
Ask your agent to have CodeRabbit review your code and see what it catches.
