Apply your code review preferences
CodeRabbit utilizes an internal knowledge base that integrates with several external services to provide a seamless review and issue management experience.
Issue Tracking Integration
CodeRabbit can integrate with your issue tracking systems to provide better context during code reviews. For details on setting up issue tracking integrations, see our Issue Integrations guide.
Learnings
You can tell the bot to remember things about either specific lines in files, or generally about the entire repository, or even across repositories.
For example, you can add a comment in a PR to chat directly with CodeRabbit. @coderabbitai always remember to enforce camelCase.
Or you can comment directly on some lines of code in the PR. @coderabbitai do not complain about lack of error handling here, it is handled higher up the execution stack.
Watch our video walkthrough on learnings for more information.
Code Guidelines
CodeRabbit can read code guideline files that set standards and expectations about your team's coding practices, described in natural language. CodeRabbit applies any instructions it reads from a repository's code guideline files to all subsequent code reviews.
By default, CodeRabbit looks for the standard guideline files used by other AI coding assistants, including Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf. You can also mark any other file or set of files in your repository as code guideline files by providing CodeRabbit with a list of paths to those files.
This feature is enabled by default; you can disable it if needed.
For more information about configuring the code guidelines feature, see Code guidelines in the configuration reference page.