Show HN: Stage CLI – a tool to make reading your AI generated changes easier
Not a pilot. Engineers are already using AI agents to write code—Stage CLI just made reviewing those changes 10x faster.
Why it matters
As AI coding agents become standard, the bottleneck has shifted from writing code to reading and understanding AI-generated diffs. Stage CLI addresses this by breaking down changes into logical chapters, making human review of agent output faster and more manageable.
The key facts
11 to knowStage CLI is the local, open-source version of Stage code review tool
Works with any coding agent
Tool instructs agents to break changes into separate logical chapters
Presents diffs organized by logical flow rather than repository tree order
Initially launched on Hacker News as PR tool, expanded to CLI after user feedback
GitHub:
Stage CLI launched as open-source, local version of paid PR review tool
Works with any coding agent (e.g., Claude, Cursor, etc.)
Breaks changes into logical chapters for easier review vs. tree-order diffs
Posted on Hacker News with prior Show HN traction (47796818)
GitHub repo live at ReviewStage/stage-cli
Go to the source
Hacker Newsgithub.com
Publisher excerpt: Hey HN! We're Charles and Dean. A few weeks ago we posted about Stage, a code review tool that guides you through reading a PR step by step - We got a lot of great feedback but also heard from many people that they wanted to have the chapters experience even before opening a PR… so we built the…