install

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macOS

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brew install crit

provider-native install command

overview

Package summary

Your feedback loop with the agent: review plans and code locally

Project links

Commands and aliases

crit

history

Project history and usage

crit is a local review-loop tool for AI-assisted development. It packages a browser review interface and a single CLI binary so users can review plans, diffs, and local web previews, then send comments back to coding agents.

Project history

The project appeared publicly in 2026 and its README frames the problem as making agent output reviewable in interfaces suited to the artifact: markdown plans, code diffs, running web apps, and static HTML previews. Its official site describes the same local feedback-loop focus for AI agent code changes.

Adoption history

Official quickstart instructions put Homebrew first and also document Go, Nix, and Windows binary installs. The README lists integrations with multiple AI coding tools, including Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Gemini, Qwen, Aider, and others, which positions the package as glue between local review workflows and agent CLIs.

How it is used

Users run crit with no arguments to auto-detect git changes, pass markdown or HTML files for review, or pass a localhost URL for live web review. Configuration is split between global and project .crit.config.json files, with global-only settings for sensitive agent command execution and authentication-related options.

Why package nerds care

crit is notable as an early package-manager-distributed tool aimed specifically at agent-assisted development loops. The packaging story is intentionally simple: one local binary, Homebrew install path, optional Go/Nix/Windows installs, and no requirement that the coding agent itself own the review UI.

Timeline

2026: Repository created in February.
2026: v0.1.0 release published on February 16.
2026: Rapid 0.x releases followed in February as the review-loop workflow evolved.

Related projects

crit integrates with AI coding agents and editor/CLI assistants rather than replacing them.
crit-web is the related self-hostable service used when sharing reviews.

Sources

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for crit. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ~/.crit.config.json.crit.config.json.crit/prompts/*.md

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix: ~/.crit.config.json

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`crit`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version0.18.2

manager updated2026-07-30

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:crit
Version	0.18.2
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://crit.md/
Repository	https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit
Last updated	2026-07-30T01:26:47Z
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/crit.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
pkgdb category and tag curation

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