leveret

A leveret is a young hare — small, fast, and born with its eyes open.

leveret is a self-hosted, hybrid engine for private code reviews: the successor to hosted AI review bots for teams whose code stays home. Deterministic static analysis, AST-level search, and a graded filtering pipeline exposed over MCP, driven by whatever reviewing agent you bring (BYOM — Claude Code, a local model via any MCP-capable client, or a CI runner). The engine layer itself never calls an LLM.

Pipeline the project targets:

[diff] → [deterministic first pass: leveret scan] → [review agent: leads → concerns]
       → [verification agent: refute-or-evidence filter] → [report]

Tools

• scan {repo, base? | files?, engines?, delta?} — runs the engines applicable to the change set and returns normalized findings (engine, rule, severity, file, line, message, provenance) plus a per-engine status report. With a base ref the scan is delta by default: findings already present at the base tree are dropped as pre-existing (counted, never silent) and survivors are tagged introduced. Engines: semgrep (registry security + per-language rulesets), gitleaks (secrets over base..HEAD commits), shellcheck, ruff, actionlint, zizmor (workflow security), osv-scanner (lockfile CVEs), typos (spelling), jscpd (profile-gated duplication), profile-declared semgrep/ast-grep rule packs, and arbitrary SARIF-emitting commands via custom: profile entries (recipes: psalm taint, hadolint, trivy, ...). Findings are review leads, not verdicts.

• ast_search {repo, pattern, lang, paths?} — structural pattern matching via ast-grep (metavariables, syntax-aware), for call-site-shaped questions text grep gets wrong.

• context {repo, files} — prioritization signal, not findings: per-function cyclomatic complexity (lizard), 12-month churn, last-touched date.

Related MCP server: reporelay

Run

npm install && npm run build
node dist/server.js          # stdio MCP server
npm test                     # integration tests (need semgrep, gitleaks, shellcheck, ruff, actionlint, ast-grep on PATH)

Claude Code registration:

claude mcp add leveret -- node /Users/andre/git/leveret/dist/server.js

Status / roadmap

See DESIGN.md — architecture, the three-grade filter (actionable / priced-noise / false-positive), the in-repo memory store, agent prompt contracts, and the validation benchmark gating adoption.

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later.