Quality gates & verdicts

A gate turns a review into a decision. Each pull request carries a gate status of pending, passed or failed, plus a verdict.

Verdicts

The verdict is approved, changes_requested or commented, and it is recomputed on every review and whenever findings are triaged — so resolving the last blocking finding flips the PR to approved without needing a fresh review.

Review-only by default

ReviewIQ does not post an approve / request-changes verdict unless Auto approve is enabled on the repository. With it off, ReviewIQ analyses and comments but never approves or rejects. Providers also forbid approving your own pull request, so the integration account must differ from the PR author.

What ReviewIQ never does

It never declines, merges, closes or deletes a pull request. If a PR was declined, a human or another automation did it.