# Gitea VCS Usage

## Introduction

When working with Gitea, you can use several methods to interact with the tool.

## 1. Launch of code review

To start a code review, you must first prepare the following:

1. Push the branch with changes to the remote repository
2. Create a Pull Request in Gitea VCS, adding the `@kodobot` reviewer user to the Pull Request

# 1.1. Automatic Start

After completing the preparatory stage of creating a Pull Request with the AI reviewer added, the code review **will be launched automatically.**

# 1.2. Manual Start

If for some reason you need to start the review yourself, use the `@kodobot` tag when writing a comment in the pull request.

# 2. Code review prevention

To prevent the review from starting, we can use the following methods

## 2.1. Tag [no ai] in the pull request title

When a pull request is created with the tag `[no ai]` in the pull request title, and when new changes are pushed to the pull request, the reviewer will not be triggered for that pull request.
This can be useful if you use `CODEOWNERS` file in your repository.

## 2.2. Do not add AI use to PR

You can choose not to add the `@kodobot` AI Reviewer user at all, and then the kodo review tool will never run for this Pull Request.

⚠️ **Important:** you **do not need** to write the `[no ai]` tag if no AI user has been added to the Pull Request for review.

## 3. Questions for AI

You can use the `@kodobot` tag in a Pull Request comment to ask the AI anything. After adding the `@kodobot` tag to your message you will receive a response from AI user.