Custom rules

Rules describe what reviewers on your team always look for. Each rule has:

• Instructions: what to check, for example "Every organization API must validate membership".
• Severity and category.
• Globs that limit the rule to matching paths.
• An enabled flag.

Rules can live in three places. Later sources add to earlier ones:

1. Workspace or team rules, in Memory → Custom rules.
2. Repository rules, in the dashboard.
3. Repository files, read from the pull request's base branch:
   • .openreview.json (rules array).
   • .openreview/rules.md: one ## Title section per rule, optionally starting with severity:, category: and globs: lines.
   • Nested <dir>/.openreview.json files, which apply only under that directory.

Because configuration is read from the base branch, a pull request cannot weaken its own review. Admins can lock settings so repository files cannot override them. See repository configuration.

## Money is integer cents
severity: high
category: correctness
globs: src/billing/**
Amounts are integer cents everywhere; flag floats or division that produces fractional cents.