Clawpatch

Clawpatch is an automated code review tool for analyzing codebases, recording findings, and applying explicit fixes with validation. It maps a repository into semantic feature slices rather than reviewing files in isolation, and it keeps the resulting findings available for audit and follow-up.

Its review model uses feature records with entrypoints, owned files, nearby tests, and trust boundaries. Findings include severity, confidence, evidence, and a recommendation, and the supported categories listed in the documentation are bug, security, performance, docs-gap, test-gap, and maintainability. The tool also records explicit fix attempts and rechecks findings after changes. Patching runs through an explicit fix loop, and validation results are recorded for each patch attempt.

Clawpatch includes commands for initializing a project, mapping semantic features, reviewing code, generating a report, applying a fix for a specific finding, revalidating a finding, checking project state, and checking the environment setup. It produces Markdown reports and JSON state, and its state is persisted in a .clawpatch/ directory so runs, feature state, findings, and patch attempts can be resumed. The default provider uses the local Codex CLI, and the documentation says it uses strict JSON schemas around provider results.

The tool is delivered as a command-line interface and can be installed with npm, pnpm, or from source. The setup text names Node.js 22+, Git 2.x, and the local Codex CLI as requirements. The documentation also states that Clawpatch auto-detects Node.js, TypeScript, Next.js, Python, Flask, FastAPI, Go, Rust/Cargo, SwiftPM, and common build tools. The source text names GitHub and shows a repository at https://github.com/openclaw/clawpatch.git.