Publishing reviews

Review comments begin as local drafts. You can edit them beside the evidence and code without sending anything to GitHub.

Before publishing, ReviewArc creates a preview of the exact review payload and binds it to:

• the current pull request head revision;
• a digest of the previewed comments and review event; and
• a short confirmation window.

You must explicitly confirm that preview. If the pull request revision or preview content changes, ReviewArc refuses to publish the old confirmation and asks you to preview again.

Review events

You can publish comments with an allowed GitHub review event, including a comment-only review, approval, or request for changes. GitHub’s own constraints still apply—for example, authors cannot approve their own pull requests.

ReviewArc reports ambiguous GitHub results instead of silently retrying a publication that may already have succeeded. Published review history and resulting GitHub URLs are stored locally for reference.