Windsurf: Devin Review Suggests a Change Straight From the Diff
WindsurfSelecting lines of a diff on a GitHub or GitLab pull request in Devin Review now offers Suggest change, which opens a review comment prefilled with a suggestion for those lines. Because it uses the platforms' native suggestion blocks, the pull request author can apply the patch directly from the review.
Key Takeaways
- Selecting diff lines in Devin Review now offers Suggest change, on both GitHub and GitLab pull requests.
- The review comment opens prefilled with a suggestion covering the selected lines.
- Authors can apply the suggestion from the pull request, since it uses the platforms' native suggestion blocks.
- Reviewers edit a draft instead of hand-writing suggestion syntax.
- The action starts from the diff, where line-by-line review already happens.
- It pairs with the same release's auto-review change, moving Devin Review from reporting problems toward resolving them.
Turning a review comment into a concrete patch
Devin Review can now propose the exact replacement lines for a stretch of code. Selecting lines of a diff on a GitHub or GitLab pull request inside Devin Review surfaces a Suggest change action, which opens a review comment already filled in with a suggestion for the lines that were selected.
Why a prefilled suggestion matters
A review comment that says what is wrong still leaves the author to work out the fix. A suggestion block carries the replacement code itself, which on GitHub and GitLab the author can apply straight from the pull request without leaving the review. Moving from "here is a problem" to "here is the patch" is the difference between a comment that needs a round trip and one that can be accepted in a click.
How it fits the review flow
The action starts from the diff, which is where reviewers already work line by line. Because the suggestion is prefilled, the reviewer edits a draft rather than composing the syntax for a suggestion block by hand, and the result is a normal review comment that both platforms understand.
Why it matters
This lands alongside Windsurf's other Devin Review changes in the same release, which moved auto-review onto the pull request card. Together they push Devin Review toward being a place where a reviewer can both find an issue and resolve it, instead of a place that only reports findings.