Building a Local AI Code Review Tool Using Ollama

Code review is one of the most important parts of the development process, but it also takes time. Static analyzers and linters catch rule-based issues, yet they usually lack the ability to understand broader context. Most of them work as SaaS products and require sending code to external APIs. For private repositories or internal projects this can be a problem. I wanted something simpler: a tool that can analyze code changes using an LLM, but runs entirely locally. So I built CodeFox, a CLI tool for AI-assisted code review.