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PR Lens by Coldtea.ai

See code through a new lens

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Featured onSeptember 7th, 2026
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PR Lens is a new way to look at code. It draws animated architecture and data flow diagrams of any codebase and every pull request, so you see the change before you read a single line of code. It runs as a GitHub Action, on the CLI, or as a skill for your coding agent. Open source under MIT.

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Hi PH,

Agents write more code every week, but we still have to understand it, and reading it line by line is no longer an efficient way to do that.

We need new ways to look at code.

What if reading code was visual? A few hundred lines a minute, leaving your attention for the part that's critical: the mental model of the system you maintain, its architecture, how it evolves, and how data moves through it?

This is why we built a custom renderer for agent-written diffs.

Every pull request comes with an animated architecture and data flow diagram. Changes, additions and removals are colour-coded, and it moves, so you watch a request travel through the system rather than a wall of diff.

It's open source under MIT, works with any model you bring, and runs as a GitHub Action, on the CLI, or as a skill for your coding agent. The repo is here: github.com/coldteadotai/pr-lens

I wrote about the reasoning and the design here: reducing cognitive load in AI-generated PRs

PR Lens is built by the team at Coldtea.

It takes a minute to run locally. Try this prompt: "Explain the codebase or the last change to me using pr lens". Send feedback :)

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About PR Lens by Coldtea.ai on Product Hunt

See code through a new lens

PR Lens by Coldtea.ai launched on Product Hunt on September 7th, 2026 and earned 0 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #20 on the daily leaderboard. PR Lens is a new way to look at code. It draws animated architecture and data flow diagrams of any codebase and every pull request, so you see the change before you read a single line of code. It runs as a GitHub Action, on the CLI, or as a skill for your coding agent. Open source under MIT.

PR Lens by Coldtea.ai was featured in Open Source (68.8k followers), Software Engineering (43k followers), Developer Tools (518.8k followers) and GitHub (41.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 133.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.

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