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title: "Introduction"
description: "Baz is an engineering review platform for implementation plans, pull requests, security findings, and merge decisions."
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# Introduction

Baz is an engineering review platform for implementation plans, pull requests, security findings, and merge decisions.

Baz runs coding agents that automatically review your code with complete understanding of your codebase.

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## Start here

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<a class="docCard" href="/docs/basics/configure-with-github"><span class="docCardTitle">🚀<strong>Get started</strong></span><span class="docCardDesc">Connect Baz to your code</span></a>
<a class="docCard" href="/docs/account/billing"><span class="docCardTitle">💡<strong>Pricing</strong></span><span class="docCardDesc">Compare plans and pricing options</span></a>
<a class="docCard" href="https://baz.ai/changelog"><span class="docCardTitle">✨ <strong>Changelog</strong></span><span class="docCardDesc">Stay up to date with the latest features</span></a>
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## What you can do with Baz

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<a class="docCard" href="/docs/agents/baz-agents"><span class="docCardTitle">🐞 <strong>Find and fix bugs</strong></span><span class="docCardDesc">Run powerful background agents that traverse your code to find & fix nasty bugs</span></a>
<a class="docCard" href="/docs/capabilities/pull-requests"><span class="docCardTitle">🔍 <strong>Review code changes</strong></span><span class="docCardDesc">Go over diffs, walk through changes, suggest changes before merge</span></a>
<a class="docCard" href="/docs/capabilities/planner"><span class="docCardTitle">📝 <strong>Plan before code</strong></span><span class="docCardDesc">Review and approve an implementation plan before an agent writes anything</span></a>
<a class="docCard" href="/docs/capabilities/secure-ai-code"><span class="docCardTitle">🛡️ <strong>Secure your code</strong></span><span class="docCardDesc">Security agents that reason about exploitability, and fix what they find</span></a>
<a class="docCard" href="/docs/basics/integrations/preview-environments"><span class="docCardTitle">📐 <strong>Verify spec & design</strong></span><span class="docCardDesc">Run agents that verify that features were developed according to plan</span></a>
<a class="docCard" href="/docs/basics/integrations/datadog"><span class="docCardTitle">🚨 <strong>Respond to incidents</strong></span><span class="docCardDesc">Run agents that can sift through logs and traces and suggest instant fix PRs</span></a>
<a class="docCard" href="/docs/agents/skills-and-instructions"><span class="docCardTitle">🛠️ <strong>Customize Baz</strong></span><span class="docCardDesc">Use instructions, rules, skills and prompts to specify your standards</span></a>
<a class="docCard" href="/docs/basics/integrations"><span class="docCardTitle">🔗 <strong>Connect your workflow</strong></span><span class="docCardDesc">Add relevant context to your entire engineering toolchain</span></a>
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## More resources

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<a class="docCard" href="/docs/basics/plugins/cli"><span class="docCardTitle"><strong>CLI</strong></span><span class="docCardDesc">CLI for AI-assisted manual code review</span></a>
<a class="docCard" href="/docs/basics/plugins"><span class="docCardTitle"><strong>Plugins</strong></span><span class="docCardDesc">Baz search, planning, and review in Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor</span></a>
<a class="docCard" href="https://awesomereviewers.com/"><span class="docCardTitle"><strong>Skills</strong></span><span class="docCardDesc">5K+ useful coding prompts</span></a>
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## FAQ

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<summary>What does Baz actually do?</summary>

Baz runs agents across the development lifecycle: they review an implementation plan before code exists, review the pull request that implements it, look for security issues, fix findings, and judge whether a change is ready to merge. Findings arrive as comments on your changes and as check results.

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<summary>Where do I start?</summary>

Connect your provider with [GitHub](/docs/basics/configure-with-github), [GitLab](/docs/basics/configure-with-gitlab), or [Azure DevOps](/docs/basics/configure-with-azure-devops), then follow [Getting Started](/docs/getting-started) for the recommended three-week ramp-up.

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<summary>Do I have to use the Baz web app?</summary>

No. Baz works from your provider's pull requests, from your coding agent through the [plugin](/docs/basics/plugins), and from the terminal through the [CLI](/docs/basics/plugins/cli). The web app is where configuration, sessions, and dashboards live.

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<summary>Can Baz run without our code leaving our infrastructure?</summary>

Yes. See [Deployment Models](/docs/account/private-mode) for SaaS (with optional Private Mode) and self-hosted deployments, and [Security, Privacy and Compliance](/docs/account/security-privacy-and-compliance) for how data is handled.

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