Product ships, model updates, and field notes on how AI is changing the way we build, inspect, and fix software.
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Ship log — release notes
Critique Inference API launches at /inference-api with DeepSeek V4 Flash, Tencent Hy3 Preview, and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra on Western sweetener servers — stress-tested, privacy-first by default, and billed from Critique credits. Background from Leemer Labs on why we did not wait for enterprise timing.
Repath KhanCritique v5.1 ships a review evaluation harness, repository learnings, a quality budget for findings, an independent critic pass, E2B/OpenCode runtime drift checks, and a clearer Coding Agent API surface.
Repath KhanCritique v5.1.0 (5 June 2026) ships operator-first review runs, one Coding Agent product across Builder and API, marketplace attribution, repo-home defaults, and Platform connections beta — documented in a ship log written largely by cloud agents that reviewed their own changes for nearly five hours after a human pressed go.
Repath KhanCritique v5 beta (v5.0.0) ships the Agent Skill Marketplace, NL merge policy compiler, Change Passport HMAC exports, MiniMax M3 welcome pricing, Cursor Agent SDK BYOA, Coding Agent API persistent sessions, repo-first PR dashboard, finding feedback, opt-in model-feedback sharing, Workspace agent queue, and Insights velocity/risk/cost/compliance — the largest platform update since v4 Change Control.
Repath KhanHow Critique Coding Agent API persistent sessions work: warm E2B sandboxes, OpenCode continuity, idle status, SSE streaming, and follow-up messages for CI bots and internal agent platforms.
CritiqueWhy Cursor is a first-class agent harness, what Composer 2.5 is (specs, SWE-Bench Multilingual, Terminal-Bench 2.0, pricing), how Critique queues cloud agents via the Cursor Agent SDK on composer-2.5, and how that compares to models on the Critique review catalog.
CritiqueCritique v4.1 connects to Linear, Slack, Zapier, and the tools you already use. One review verdict across GitHub, chat, and your stack—without asking engineers to learn a new destination.
The Critique TeamA deep guide to Critique v4 vs v1–v3: Change Passports, the Control Board, gate → review → merge, AI-powered sandbox evidence runs, and why Critique is building the best AI management layer for code — not another comment bot on your diff.
The Critique TeamCritique v3.6.0 adds CrofAI BYOK alongside OpenRouter: save a Crof API key, bill nahcrof directly at https://crof.ai/v1, and keep the same $8/month Critique harness for orchestration.
CritiqueHow Critique hands a scoped review blueprint to Claude Managed Agents—encrypted Anthropic keys, GitHub-mounted PR checkout, the managed-agents-2026-04-01 beta, and a worker that streams until the session goes idle. Review stays on Critique; execution bills on your Anthropic account.
CritiqueHow Critique hands review findings to OpenAI Codex: a deterministic JSON handoff envelope with allowed write paths, validation commands, and stop conditions; an encrypted OpenAI key; and a Responses API worker. Review stays on Critique; execution bills on your OpenAI account.
CritiqueCritique now queues scoped fix handoffs to Cursor Cloud Agents with your API key. Why review and execution belong in different products—and how to get the best developer experience by using both.
CritiqueCritique Workspace merges PR review, Chat, Builder, and Remedy into one signed-in surface at /workspace — one history rail, shared repo context, and one credit ledger.
CritiqueCritique now prices one standard review unit at roughly 1M input and 150k output tokens instead of 100k and 15k. That makes large, context-heavy reviews much cheaper without flattening the model ladder. We also refreshed the pricing page and are giving every user +1,000 bonus credits.
CritiqueCritique Checkpoint is the new pre-review trust layer for GitHub pull requests: contributor, account, activity, language, and slop-pattern rules before deep Critique review starts.
CritiqueInside Critique's two-layer PR review watchdog: DeepSeek V4 Flash supervision, recoverable stalls, GDPval-AA vs Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6, vendor list pricing anchors, limited-time fifty-percent credit lanes on Flash and Pro, and why speed-per-cognition is what merge-gate infra needs.
CritiqueA founder note on the first serious beta month: roughly a billion tokens processed, hundreds of thousands of lines written, five distinct surfaces now talking to each other, and what comes next when they finish becoming one.
CritiqueThe Critique referral program is up. Get your link on the referrals page, earn bonus review credits for every successful signup, and race for early milestones: 5,000 credits + $50 at 10 referrers, 10,000 credits + $150 at 100.
CritiquePR Review v5 leads with the PR diff and model findings, adds multi-turn OpenCode in one session with bounded follow-ups, quiets the default live feed, and sketches the next layer: a cheap thinker (e.g. DeepSeek V4 Flash) for meta-review.
Repath KhanCritique Builder is a browser-first cloud agent surface for starting repo-backed coding jobs, watching live execution, and inspecting results without turning the product into a browser IDE. Managed sandboxes, OpenCode, subagents, and a stronger bias toward shipping real software.
CritiquePR Review v4.1 deepens the OpenCode sandbox: exploratory testing, granular GitHub inline comments, live OpenCode activity streaming to the dashboard, and AES-256-GCM encrypted per-repository secrets for real integration runs.
Repath KhanCritique PR Review v4 is live in beta: nearly 4,000 PRs reviewed, sandbox-native OpenCode execution getting tighter, and Critique now showing up as the #2 public app this month on OpenRouter’s Embed V1 4B activity view just behind AnythingLLM.
Repath KhanCritique PR Review v3.1 moves final review synthesis into the sandbox. The sandbox now authors the structured review artifact with summary, findings, command timeline, runtime checks, and sub-agent output, while the app stays the control plane.
Repath KhanCritique PR Review v3 is live one day after the V2 release. Sandbox-backed AI code review, dedicated review-analysis workers, canonical review-run pages, GitHub App publishing, Remedy handoff, fix prompts, and an owner-only review assistant are now part of the product.
Repath KhanCritique now supports interactive PR chat via @critique mentions in GitHub pull request comments. Ask questions, run slash commands for review, explain, fix, security, tests, and more. Powered by Qwen 3.7 Plus — a frontier-level model with a 1M-token context window that beats GPT-5.1-Codex, GPT-5.2, and GPT-5.3-Codex on long-horizon benchmarks.
CritiqueWe shipped ten deep improvements to the Critique review engine: a semantic index, subsystem clustering for large PRs, intrinsic-risk-based drill-down targeting, cross-file relationship analysis, a CODE_QUALITY specialist, two-phase reasoning, domain heuristic packs, contract-diff analyzers, better evidence packaging, and expanded model support across GPT-5.4, Grok-4.2, GLM-5V-Turbo, MiMo v2.5, and more.
CritiqueRemedy — Critique's autonomous code-fixing engine — is now available directly inside Critique Chat. Start from a review, choose a model, and watch fixes land on your PR branch in real time. Your machine never runs a line of this code.
CritiqueCritique Chat is the dashboard assistant grounded in your real GitHub codebase. Connect a repo, ask questions, get answers backed by live code search. Free for all signed-in users with frontier models like KAT Coder Pro V2, MiniMax M2.7, GLM-5V-Turbo, and MiMo v2.5.
CritiqueDeep dive on Relace Search (relace/relace-search): 256K context, parallel tool calls, report_back handoff to oracle agents, OpenRouter pricing and telemetry, benchmarks vs naive retrieval, and how Critique Chat uses it today.
CritiqueMiniMax M3 coding performance on SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.1, M3 vs Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, Qwen3.7 Plus vs Qwen3.6 Plus on terminal and UI benchmarks, and a 50% welcome credit window on M3 PR review runs through June 17, 2026. Critique Chat stays Ling and DeepSeek V4 Flash.
CritiqueCritique’s May 2026 model spring: permanent 0.5cr DeepSeek V4 Flash and MiMo v2.5, 1cr DeepSeek V4 Pro and MiMo Pro, Ling at 0.5cr, MiniMax M2.7 at 1.5cr, Qwen3.7-Max at 6cr, Claude Opus 4.8 and Fast, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Grok Build 0.1, and Ring-2.6-1T.
CritiqueCatalog refresh for Critique and Remedy: Grok 4.3 replaces Grok 4.2 with a steep credit drop, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B replaces Qwen3.5-27B, InclusionAI Ling-2.6-Flash joins at 1 credit, Qwen3.6-Max-Preview joins at 8 credits, GLM-5.1 gets a 1-credit discount, KAT Coder Pro V2 returns to its normal 2-credit price, and MiMo v2.5 increases by 1 credit.
CritiqueGPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro are now visible in Critique: benchmark tables for Terminal-Bench 2.0, SWE-Bench Pro, BrowseComp, GDPval, long context, pricing, OpenRouter IDs, and practical routing guidance for PR review and Remedy.
CritiqueDeepSeek V4 Flash (1 cr) and V4 Pro (3 cr) replace V3.2 Speciale in Critique’s runtime catalog: MoE scale, 1M-token context, EU-hosted routing, GDPval-AA and token-budget benchmarks vs V3.2 and frontier peers, DeepSeek API pricing vs Critique credits, and integration notes for lead, specialist, and Remedy roles.
CritiqueArcee AI’s Trinity-Large-Thinking is now available in Critique as `arcee-ai/trinity-large-thinking` at a 1-credit floor. We break down the Apache 2.0 release, MoE architecture, reasoning-trace constraints, benchmark profile, and why this model matters for long-horizon agentic review and Remedy.
CritiqueKimi K2.6 replaces Kimi K2.5 across Critique’s PR review stack and Remedy chat models: architecture, benchmarks vs K2.5 and peers, integration notes, and April 21–27 2026 introductory pricing at 50% off former Kimi K2.5 credits.
CritiqueGemma-4-31B and MiMo-V2-Flash join critique.sh at a permanent 0.5cr floor. We compare SWE-bench Verified scores and critique.sh credit costs across Gemini 3 Flash, MiniMax-M2.5, Qwen3.5-27B, GPT-5.4 mini, Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.1 Codex Max, and Claude Sonnet 4.6 — with a price-to-performance ratio chart.
Repath KhanXiaomi’s MiMo-V2-Flash and MiMo-V2-Pro: costs, coding benchmarks, hybrid attention, 1M context, and how critique.sh uses them for critique, fixes, and agentic review at every tier.
CritiqueNext.js works locally but fails on Vercel? Case-sensitive imports, env var gaps, and next build vs next dev — plus a 10-minute pre-push ritual to catch AI import mistakes.
CritiqueCursor or Windsurf stuck on the same broken fix? Loop taxonomy, two-strike rule, circuit breaker prompts, TDD ground truth, and Critique sandbox verification.
CritiqueFive AI patterns that create circular imports in Next.js, why local dev lies, how to detect cycles with madge and dependency-cruiser, and the fix order that actually works.
CritiqueStatic review vs runtime proof, the Plan-Work-Verify loop, E2B and Docker sandbox patterns for GitHub PRs, and how Critique productizes sandbox verification for vibe coders.
CritiqueFive common ways Cursor, Copilot, and agent mode leak API keys into git diffs, model context, client bundles, and CI logs — plus a PR merge-gate checklist to prevent environment variable leaks.
CritiqueWhy AI agents silence TypeScript errors with `any`, `as`, and `@ts-ignore`, how Next.js dev vs build diverge, and a PR checklist for real type fixes — not check-engine-light patches.
CritiqueCompare Critique Coding Agent API and Devin on API access, pricing (quota vs credits vs OpenRouter BYOK), model choice including OpenRouter free routes, and when each cloud coding agent fits.
CritiqueBest code review skill for Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and Opencode, with a real Moonshot Kimi K2.6 PR review comparison and setup guide.
CritiqueOpen source maintainers and foundations facing hundreds of pull requests need PR control: gate, evidence-backed review, and Change Passports. Pro and Team plans for volume; verified OSS lane at Solo-equivalent pricing. OSS credit grants available.
CritiqueIs critique.sh safe for private repos? A code-level review of GitHub access, E2B sandboxes, data retention, chat storage, and provider logging.
CritiqueThe 2026 AI code review pricing trap: seats, usage billing, Actions minutes, and shared credits all make pull request review cost behave differently.
CritiqueA security checklist for AI-generated code that catches the scary stuff before merge: auth gaps, data leaks, secrets, dependencies, prompt injection, and unsafe fixes.
CritiqueCodeRabbit vs Cursor Bugbot sounds simple until pricing, IDE lock-in, benchmarks, and GitHub workflow fit change the answer.
CritiqueA startup-focused AI code review guide for teams shipping too fast to manually inspect every risky pull request.
CritiqueWhy coding agents and PR review agents should be separate jobs, and how to wire them into GitHub without trusting the same agent twice.
CritiqueWhy Critique moved to clearer AI code review pricing: bigger credit pools, transparent review costs, low-balance gates, and an $8/month OpenRouter BYOK harness.
CritiqueIf you ship with ManusAI, v0.app, or Lovable, you already have velocity. Here is how Critique fits after export: GitHub-native PR review with repo context, specialist lanes, and optional verified fixes so prototypes mature into production discipline.
CritiqueAI code review is now mainstream, but developer trust still lags dangerously behind adoption. Here is why engineering leaders should evaluate AI review tooling as governance infrastructure — and what the real buying criteria look like in 2026.
CritiqueA technical deep dive into hybrid retrieval for codebases: exact string search, semantic search, warmed snapshots, reciprocal rank fusion, and the operational details that make code search trustworthy.
CritiqueStaff engineer or platform lead evaluating AI PR review automation? These five questions — permissions, token model, data egress, check behavior, and uninstall path — separate a trustworthy GitHub App from a risk review waiting to happen.
CritiqueA detailed critique.sh essay on open-source and open-weight AI models, MiniMax M2.7 vs Claude Opus 4.6, why Chinese labs are leading the cost-capability curve, and the March 2026 credit promos for MiniMax, GLM-5, and Kimi K2.5.
CritiqueMCP and CLI are often framed as rivals for AI agent tool invocation. Primary benchmarks show CLI can be 9–32× cheaper in tokens for well-known tools, while MCP wins on discoverability, OAuth, and tenant isolation. This article synthesizes the evidence and ends with a decision framework.
CritiqueAn honest map of cloud coding agents across GitHub, Cursor, Jules, Devin, OpenCode, E2B, and Vercel Sandbox, plus where Critique Remedy fits as a review-attached execution layer with BYOA support.
CritiqueFor the last two years, most of the conversation around AI coding has focused on the wrong layer. In 2026, the more important reality is much bigger: AI is increasingly helping maintain, inspect, debug, and repair software too.
CritiqueInside the fastest adoption curve in developer tooling history — and why the bottleneck has moved from writing code to reviewing it. Claude Code, PR review crisis, and the infrastructure critique.sh was built to close.
The critique.sh Team