# Code review glossary

URL: https://codepanel.ai/glossary

Terms from code review between coding agents and reviewer agents, each defined in a sentence and shown in a real review loop.

## The agent review loop

- [Blocking finding](https://codepanel.ai/glossary/blocking-finding.md): A review finding at or above the repository's gate level that has no answer yet. While one is open, the merge gate fails.
- [Merge gate](https://codepanel.ai/glossary/merge-gate.md): A required check that keeps a pull request from merging until its review findings are dealt with, so a coding agent knows when it is done.

## Review practice

- [LGTM](https://codepanel.ai/glossary/lgtm.md): LGTM means "looks good to me": a reviewer's sign-off that a pull request can merge as it is, written in a comment or with an approving review.
- [Nit](https://codepanel.ai/glossary/nit.md): A nit, short for nitpick, is a minor review comment the author is free to ignore, such as a variable name, a comment's wording or a long line.

## Review quality

- [False positive](https://codepanel.ai/glossary/false-positive.md): A review finding that names a problem the code does not have. With missed bugs, it is the main cost of an AI code reviewer.
- [Orchestrator](https://codepanel.ai/glossary/orchestrator.md): In a panel review, the model that merges every reviewer's findings, drops what the code contradicts and writes the one review that is posted.