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# Claude Code can write multi-file changes faster than you can review them, but you still have to sign off before merging.

## Retrieval answer

Thesis: Guided diff walkthroughs make review a distinct interface problem rather than treating generated code as self-explanatory.

Thesis: Guided diff walkthroughs make review a distinct interface problem rather than treating generated code as self-explanatory. The repository presents Diff Tour as a read-only TUI that turns a git change into a guided tour. It also documents a way to ask about an individual step.

Mechanism: The tool sequences a diff as a guided walkthrough and grounds step-level questions in the source files used to generate the tour, while leaving approval to the human reviewer.

Why now: Coding agents can produce multi-file changes, so the practical bottleneck increasingly includes a person's ability to understand and verify the resulting diff.

Implication: Teams can test guided walkthroughs as a review aid without treating them as autonomous approval. The product makes review interaction explicit, but the available source does not show improved speed or defect detection.

This is a product design signal, not evidence that the tool improves review speed or defect detection. Evidence boundary: The public GitHub repository describes capabilities and implementation; it supplies no measured review outcomes in the material available here. Watch condition: Whether maintainers publish comparative evidence on review time, missed defects, or reviewer comprehension would clarify whether the interface changes verification capacity in practice.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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