Review with GLM
glm_reviewReview a unified diff against the requirement it was meant to implement, then return a clear verdict of PASS or CHANGES_REQUIRED for shell pipelines.
Instructions
Review a change with a Z.ai GLM model (default GLM-5.3) and return a VERDICT: the reply is the reviewer's analysis and always ends with a final line that is exactly VERDICT: PASS or VERDICT: CHANGES_REQUIRED — the same vocabulary bin/glm-review reads, so a shell pipeline can consume the result. Pass the change as a unified diff and the requirement it was meant to implement as spec: review against intent is what catches silent scope-narrowing, and the reviewer is warned off both recorded pathologies — findings that are padded or fabricated, and work that is stubbed, mocked or hardcoded rather than implemented. A reply that is a bare verdict with no analysis behind it comes back as an error, never as a clean review. This server never runs git and inspects no repository state on its own: the diff comes from the caller, and files resolve exactly as glm_ask resolves them. Reviews default to reasoning 'high' — the depth the glm_ask routing guidance reserves for review and bug-hunting — and a different model than the one that wrote the code is worth choosing where you can, because a model re-reading its own work reliably under-reports.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| cwd | No | Directory that relative file paths resolve against. Defaults to the server's cwd. | |
| diff | No | The unified diff to review, as your tooling produced it. The server never runs git — the caller supplies the change under review, and this argument is how. Either diff or files must be present; with neither, the call is refused rather than answered with a verdict about nothing. | |
| spec | No | What the change was meant to do — the requirement, ticket or plan it was written against. Reaches the reviewer verbatim. Review against intent is the only check on silent scope-narrowing, this loop's recorded failure mode; with no spec the reviewer can only infer intent from the diff itself. | |
| files | No | Optional files as review context, resolved exactly as glm_ask resolves them (same confinement to the operator's roots, same per-model character budget, same notes): literal paths and/or glob patterns (e.g. "src/**/*.ts"). Each glob expands to its matching files, sorted and de-duplicated across the whole list; a pattern that matches nothing is reported in the response notes. A path that exists on disk is used literally even when it contains glob characters. Glob expansion skips node_modules, .git and build output by default; naming a directory in the pattern (node_modules/foo/**/*.d.ts) or setting GLM_MCP_GLOB_IGNORE overrides that. Relative paths — ./ and ../ prefixes included — resolve against 'cwd'. | |
| model | No | GLM model id. Defaults to glm-5.3 (the frontier flagship); glm-5.3-flash and glm-4.6 are the fast routes, and glm_models lists every id the account offers with a one-line role. | |
| reasoning | No | Reasoning depth — same levels as glm_ask, but the default here is 'high' rather than 'low': a review is the work the routing guidance reserves 'high' for, and a reviewer skimming on the 2,048-token 'low' budget is the rubber stamp with extra steps. Use 'max' (24,576 tokens) for a large or subtle change, and 'low' only for a re-check you expect to be mechanical. GLM-5.3 and glm-5.3-flash always reason, so 'low' is their shallowest setting. | |
| max_tokens | No | Max output tokens — a hard cap. The request never exceeds it; the thinking budget scales down to fit beneath it, always leaving room for the answer, but never below the API minimum of 1024. A cap below 2048 — the API's budget minimum plus the least room that still constitutes an answer — cannot hold both and is refused rather than silently raised; on GLM-5.3 and glm-5.3-flash, which always reason, the only fix is a higher cap. A cap over the model's published ceiling is likewise refused before anything is sent (131,072 for GLM-5.3). Omit it and the model's own default applies (65,536 for GLM-5.3). A review severed by too small a cap loses its verdict line and is returned as an error, so size it for the analysis plus the verdict. |