{"slug":"devin-review-the-session","title":"Review a Devin session before anyone merges","summary":"Use Devin's session output as a review packet: commands run, files touched, and tests actually executed. The playbook is for the reviewer, not a second coding agent.","agent":"Devin","agentSlug":"devin","category":"Coding","categorySlug":"coding","roles":["Engineering manager"],"roleSlugs":["engineering-manager"],"industries":["Software"],"industrySlugs":["software"],"jobs":["code-review"],"topic":"Dev & Coding","topicSlug":"dev-and-coding","score":11,"difficulty":"medium","estCost":"The Devin plan you already used to produce the session.","costTier":"medium","timeSaved":"Reconstructing what the agent did, which is often longer than reading a normal PR.","prompt":"I am reviewing your last session. Do not push more commits unless I say \"amend\".\n\nAnswer in this order:\n- Commits or PRs you opened, with URLs\n- Commands you ran, and which ones failed\n- Files you edited that the issue did not mention\n- Tests you did not run\n- Secrets or production systems you touched\n\nIf a point is unknown because the session log does not show it, say unknown. Do not reconstruct a flattering story.","steps":[{"title":"Open the finished Devin session","detail":"Use the product's session view from the intro docs' first-session flow. This prompt is a review, so start it after the PR exists."},{"title":"Paste the prompt into that session","detail":"The ban on extra commits matters. A review question should not become another push."},{"title":"Compare the command list with CI","detail":"If CI ran checks the session skipped, read those logs yourself."},{"title":"Decide merge, changes, or close","detail":"The manager's job in this playbook is the decision, not another prompt."}],"sourceUrl":"https://docs.devin.ai/get-started/devin-intro","sourceNote":"Official documentation URL, checked when this seed was written. The prompt and steps are an original AI Playbook Gems playbook, not a quotation of a customer story, and have not been re-run.","date":"2026-09-18","verified":false,"status":"unverified","sponsorUrl":"","metrics":[{"label":"Hands-on time","value":"The review you were going to do anyway, with a checklist"},{"label":"You still approve","value":"The merge decision"},{"label":"Cost bucket","value":"Medium"}],"faq":[{"question":"Has this Devin playbook been re-run for the catalog?","answer":"No. Status is unverified. Paste the prompt, keep the version that worked, and do not treat the time or cost lines as measurements."},{"question":"Will the session admit a missing test?","answer":"Only if the log shows it or the agent is instructed to say unknown. Still open the CI page. This playbook is a checklist, not a confession booth."}],"url":"https://aiplaybookgems.com/usecases/devin-review-the-session","jsonUrl":"https://aiplaybookgems.com/api/usecases/devin-review-the-session"}