Anthropic Says Claude Code Merged Pull Requests Doubled as Reverts Fell 40 Percent
Summary
Anthropic's Claude Code team shifts most code review to automated checks, keeping humans for risk-tiered approvals. The company says merged pull requests doubled from June to September while reverts fell more than 40 percent. Code Review for Claude Code is generally available on Team and Enterprise plans. A classifier assigns each change no human, one, or two approvers.
Key Points
- Boris Cherny says giving Claude a way to verify its work makes the final result two to three times better.
- Anthropic reports internal pull requests needing five or more review rounds drop from 8.9 percent to 1.5 percent.
- Only authors on a repository's trusted list get the lighter approval paths, and everyone else needs a second approver.