Workflow

Why Candid’s integrated approach changes everything.

Your Standards, Always Enforced

Candid adds a [Technical.md]](/docs/core-features/technical-md) file to your project—a single source of truth for all the technical expectations you and your team expect to be true when any change happens in the codebase. Things like:

• Error handling patterns
• Testing requirements
• Security practices
• Performance thresholds
• Code organization rules

Every review checks your changes against these standards, so nothing slips through.

Learn more about Technical.md →

The Old Way

Traditional Claude Code review means constant context-switching:

1. Type out or copy in a code review prompt
2. Wait for analysis
3. Get a list of items to review
4. Copy out the review to an editor
5. Add your notes
6. Paste your notes back into Claude Code
7. Keep the context of what you are looking to fix in you head
8. Repeat…

This workflow is fragmented, slow, and loses context at every step.

The Candid Way

Candid runs directly in Claude Code:

1. Run /candid-review
2. Review findings in context being asked item-by-item which items to fix.
3. Apply fixes directly
4. Done. (with the ability to rerun)

No context-switching. No copy-paste. Everything happens where you’re already working.

Context Matters

Because Candid runs in Claude Code, it has access to:

• Your full codebase structure
• Related files and dependencies
• Your Technical.md standards
• Git history and changes

This context makes reviews more accurate and fixes more applicable.

Integrated Workflow

Candid integrates with your existing workflow:

• Reviews your actual git changes
• Applies fixes directly to files
• Tracks issues as todos
• Commits with detailed messages, if you run in auto commit mode

Everything stays in one place.

Streamlined Fix Workflow

No more copying big blocks of text and pasting them one by one. No more replying “Continue” to get through a review.

Candid asks you how you want to handle each issue it finds:

• Apply all — Fix everything automatically
• Critical + Major only — Focus on what matters most
• Review individually — Go through each fix one by one
• Skip — Move on without applying

For each fix you choose to review, Candid shows you the code and asks if you want to apply it. Simple yes/no decisions instead of manual copy-paste.

Note: we recommend you use Review individually until you are comfortable with the types of issues identified for the combination of your codebase, Technical.md and LLM model you are using.