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A pull request changes 11 lines, the tests pass, every automated reviewer approves, and three weeks later a reporting service is quietly returning wrong revenue. Nothing about the diff was incorrect. What was wrong lived in another repository nobody in the pipeline had read. This is where diff scoped review has nothing to say, and it is now the majority of what breaks in a large organisation.
Local deterministic parsing over 36 tree sitter grammars, typed nodes, provenance tagged edges, Apache 2.0, no vector store and no telemetry. That is a clean design and the privacy position is better than most of the category. The problem starts the moment your organisation has more than one repository, and it is not a problem more parsing solves.
This argument was being compared to the Vim and Emacs wars in 2024, and then it returned everywhere inside six months. Something dragged it out of retirement, and it is not really about where files live. The variable that decides whether agents work is whether the question of what depends on this is answerable at all, and neither layout answers it.
Agent runtimes got very good very fast. The thing that decides whether a change is correct across your other repositories did not get built at all. On cross repository blast radius, why AI code review misses it, and what a check actually needs.
