One TUI. Every forge. Full review.¶

A terminal-native code review inbox for developers who work across GitHub and GitLab.

Your team uses GitHub. Another uses GitLab. You live in the terminal. tongs gives you a single review inbox across forges, with syntax-highlighted diffs and inline comments, right where you already work.

lazygit is great for git operations. tongs picks up where it stops -- at code review.

Multi-forge inbox¶

GitHub PRs and GitLab MRs in one view, auto-detected from your git remotes. Three tabs let you triage everything you need to review.

 Inbox ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  [My Reviews]  My MRs  All Open

  GL  platform/auth-service    !482  Fix OAuth token refresh     ● CI passed    3 comments
  GH  andre-motta/tongs        #127  Add pipeline retry action   ● CI passed    1 comment
  GL  platform/api-gateway     !901  Rate limiter middleware     ◌ CI running   0 comments
  GH  infra/helm-charts        #44   Bump ingress controller     ● CI passed    5 comments
  GL  ml/training-pipeline     !223  Fix GPU memory leak         ✗ CI failed    2 comments

Zero configuration. tongs scans ~/git, reads your git remotes, and populates the inbox. Auth tokens come from your existing gh and glab CLI logins.

# ~/.config/tongs/config.toml (optional -- defaults work out of the box)
[general]
scan_root = "~/git"
scan_depth = 5

Real diffs in the terminal¶

Split-pane viewer with a file tree, syntax highlighting across 500+ languages, and word-level diff highlighting that shows exactly what changed.

 Diff ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  src/
  ├─ M  auth.py            │  @@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ def validate_token(token: str):
  ├─ M  config.py          │       if token.expired:
  ├─ A  middleware.py      │  -        return None
  └─ D  legacy.py          │  +        logger.warning("Token expired for %s", token.sub)
                           │  +        raise TokenExpiredError(token.sub)
                           │  +
                           │       claims = decode_jwt(token.raw)
                           │       return claims

Context folding collapses unchanged sections. Markdown files get a rendered preview toggle with M.

Inline comments and suggestions¶

Select lines, write comments, and post suggested changes without leaving the terminal.

 Comment ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  src/auth.py:44

  > This should also revoke the refresh token to prevent reuse.
  > Consider calling `revoke_refresh(token.jti)` here.

  [Ctrl+S] Submit    [F2] External editor    [F3] Suggest change    [Esc] Cancel

Discussion threads render inline in the diff gutter. Reply and resolve from the keyboard. Suggested changes open your $EDITOR with the selected code -- edit it, and tongs posts a suggestion block using the forge's native syntax.

Pipeline drill-down¶

Browse pipelines, drill into jobs grouped by stage, read full ANSI-rendered logs. Cancel or retry directly from the TUI.

 Pipeline #18204 ── passed ─────────────────────────────────────
  Stage: build
    ● build-linux     passed    2m 14s
    ● build-macos     passed    3m 01s

  Stage: test
    ● unit-tests      passed    1m 42s
    ● integration     passed    4m 33s

  Stage: deploy
    ◌ staging         running   0m 45s

  [Enter] View log    [R] Retry    [C] Cancel    [o] Open in browser

Built for the keyboard¶

Every action is reachable from the keyboard. A few highlights:

Key	Action
`Ctrl`+`P`	Command palette (fuzzy search across all actions)
`1` - `5`	Switch MR detail tabs
`C`	Comment on current line or selection
`F3`	Suggest changes (opens `$EDITOR`)
`A`+`Shift`	Approve (double-press to confirm)
`M`+`Shift`	Merge (double-press to confirm)
`J` / `K`	Navigate everywhere

Full keybinding reference

Extensible by design¶

tongs has a plugin system based on Python entry points. Install a plugin package and it shows up in the command palette automatically. The built-in MCP server is itself a plugin, so AI assistants can query your merge requests without any extra wiring.

Disable or enable plugins in your config:

[plugins.mcp]
enabled = false

tongs is for you if¶

You review code across both GitHub and GitLab
You want diffs, inline comments, and approvals in your terminal
You manage many repos and want a single inbox
You prefer keyboard-driven workflows over browser tabs

Comparison¶

Feature	tongs	gh-dash	GitHub/GitLab web
GitHub + GitLab	Yes	GitHub only	One at a time
Terminal-native diffs	Yes	No	No
Inline comments	Yes	No	Yes
Discussion threads	Yes	No	Yes
Suggested changes	Yes	No	Yes
Pipeline / CI drill-down	Yes	No	Yes
Approve / Merge	Yes	No	Yes
Command palette	Yes	No	N/A
Plugin system	Yes	No	No
MCP server (AI integration)	Yes	No	No
Rate limit auto-retry	Yes	No	N/A
Zero config auth	Yes	Yes	N/A
Self-hosted forges	Yes	Yes	N/A

PyPI -- GitHub -- License (MIT)