I stopped answering "shall I proceed?" in the terminal

Description and use

Pinrail replaces the binary "Shall I proceed?" prompt with a structured interface for accepting, rejecting, and editing agent comments in a diff view.

Problem

Agents produce review comments but human approval is limited to a single yes/no prompt, making the process formal and slow.

Outcome

Structured feedback replaces the binary prompt, making agent reviews more efficient and human-friendly.

Workflow

• 1. Agent generates review comments and pauses for approval.
• 2. Pinrail receives the review and displays it in a diff view with each comment linked to its line.
• 3. User accepts, rejects, or edits comments directly in the view, adding notes.
• 4. Pinrail sends structured decisions back to the agent.
• 5. Agent applies decisions and continues processing or stops if review is discarded.

Evidence

Claude Code works for twenty minutes on a pull request review. It reads forty files and drafts eleven comments. Then, because I told it to check with me before posting anything, it stops and prints a summary that ends in: "Shall I proceed?"

Source

Pinrail is a free, open-source desktop app (macOS and Linux, Apache 2.0) where every question an agent has for me lands in one inbox, and opens in a view made for that job.

Source

The agent doesn't get "y", and it doesn't get my paragraph. It gets structured feedback, checked against a schema before it ever sees it.

Source