Sieve

Filter AI slop before it hits your codebase.

Get Started • Features • Keyboard Shortcuts • Contributing • Roadmap

AI assistants modify 10–50+ files in seconds. But then you're left eyeballing a massive diff, hoping nothing slipped through. Sieve is a local PR review for AI-generated code — triage, annotate, and export structured feedback, all without leaving your editor.

Get Started

1. Install — Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X) → search "Sieve" → Install
2. Open a project where AI has made changes
3. Click the Sieve icon in the Activity Bar — done

Or grab the .vsix from the latest release and install manually:

code --install-extension sieve-0.1.0.vsix

Works with VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium. No configuration needed.

Features

Review Desk

All changed files in one panel. Triage them one by one — Space to approve, F to flag.

• Auto-detects staged + unstaged changes from git
• Tree view grouped by directory with git status badges (A, M, D, R)
• Filter by status: All / Unreviewed / Reviewed / Flagged
• Progress in the status bar: 12/47 reviewed

Pre-prompted Annotation Categories

Click the + gutter on any changed line. Pick a category — each one generates tailored instructions when you export.

Cycle categories with the tag button. Power users can type [bug] your text directly.

Export to LLM — Like Reviewing a Friend's PR

Flag files, add annotations, press E. Sieve builds a structured prompt with your diffs + annotations and copies it to your clipboard. Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM — it reads like a thorough code review from a colleague.

Three formats:

Each export includes full file content, hunk-level diffs, your annotations matched to the relevant code, and auto-generated instructions based on the categories you used.

<review>
<instructions>
For each [bug]: identify the root cause and suggest a minimal, targeted fix.
For each [security]: assess the OWASP risk level and provide a concrete remediation.
</instructions>

<file path="src/hooks/useAuth.ts" status="modified">
  <content>
  1: import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
  2: ...
  </content>
  <hunk header="@@ -23,5 +23,7 @@">
    <diff>
+useEffect(() => {
+  const sub = auth.onStateChange(setUser);
+}, []);
    </diff>
    <annotation line="24" category="bug">
      Missing cleanup — will cause memory leak on unmount
    </annotation>
  </hunk>
</file>
</review>

3-State Triage

Press the same shortcut again to revert to unreviewed. State persists across restarts.

The Loop

 AI generates code
       |
       v
 You review in Sieve ──> Flag + annotate
       ^                       |
       |                       v
 Re-review  <────────  Export to LLM ──> AI fixes issues

Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Cline, Aider, Codex — any tool that writes code.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Scoped to the Review Desk panel — zero conflicts with your keybindings.

Privacy

• Zero cloud — everything runs locally
• Zero telemetry — no data collection
• Zero network — no outbound connections

Contributing

git clone https://github.com/DanielT777/sieve.git
cd sieve
pnpm install
pnpm run compile:watch  # terminal 1
# Press F5 to launch Extension Development Host
pnpm test

Roadmap

• [ ] Direct LLM API integration (send & receive without leaving the editor)
• [ ] MCP server for bidirectional AI communication
• [ ] Custom export templates
• [ ] Team review session sharing

License

MIT

If Sieve saves you from merging slop, star it on GitHub