SWE-Review: Closing the Loop on Issue Resolution with Agentic Code Review

Ruoyu Wang, Jierun Chen, Shaowei Wang, Chaofan Tao, Sidi Yang, Yuxin Jiang, Kim-Hui Yap, Lifeng Shang, Xiaohui Li, Haoli Bai

SWE-Review: Closing the Loop on Issue Resolution with Agentic Code Review: 10 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers, #23 of 41 papers on 2026-07-08. Day-by-day upvote history.

Coding agents increasingly generate pull requests (PRs) for real-world software issues, yet one-shot PR generation remains open-loop: the PR is proposed without systematic review, diagnosis, or revision. We introduce SWE-Review, a framework for closing this loop with agentic code review. Given an issue and an AI-generated PR, a reviewer agent explores the repository, decides whether the PR should be accepted, and provides structured feedback for revision. We evaluate this setting with our proposed SWE-Review-Bench to measure both review correctness and downstream revision usefulness. We further curate SWE-Review-Traj dataset to study broader applications of agentic review and fill the data-scarcity gap for open reviewer training. Experiments show that agentic review continuously improves PRs through a generate-review-revise loop, outperforms single-turn fixed-context review in both decision accuracy and resolve rate after revision, transfers beyond review to improve issue-resolution models, and enables effective and efficient test-time scaling. These results position agentic code review as a practical mechanism for moving AI coding agents from one-shot PR generation toward closed-loop issue resolution.

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