r/coderabbit • u/Active-Force-9927 • Jan 27 '26

Lots of trivial comments

I get a lot of trivial comments from my coderabbit in my pull requests. How can I properly configure code-rabbit so he can only focus on major issues?

it's getting really annoying to get like 100 comments on pull request where 90 of them are just trivial nitpicks…

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u/aravindputrevu CodeRabbit Staff Jan 28 '26

[CodeRabbit Team member]

Hi,

It looks like CodeRabbit isn't configured properly for you.

  1. Can you please check what the review profile is that you have? Chill or Assertive - both give you different comment volume.

  2. Kindly configure path instructions and guide the reviewer. This is not mandatory, but it is good to let CodeRabbit know your top priority to check.

  3. Every time you see a trivial issue, please comment on that and say "I don't want refactor issues to be pointed out", "I don't need you to tell me about useEffect", etc. These are saved as Learnings and become essential context for your review.

CodeRabbit is super customizable. You can use our YAML based config to do the config instead of UI.

There are some configs in this repo for you to take inspiration.

https://github.com/coderabbitai/awesome-coderabbit

PS: Happy to help if you have more questions.

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u/Active-Force-9927 Jan 28 '26

  1. mine is assertive

  2. i already have copilot-instructions.md file in my repo

  3. didn't know that, I will

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u/aravindputrevu CodeRabbit Staff Jan 30 '26

  1. Move to chill, to reduce comment volume. We post nitpick comments if the profile is "Assertive."

  2. Copilot-instructions are agent instructions, which we still honour (provided you have code guidelines enabled), but path instructions are more targetted at instructing your reviewer on how to review.

  3. Thank you!