Agentic code review in production: orchestration, evaluation, and the cost of being wrong

What "agentic" actually buys you over a linter, why single-model approaches stall, and why false positives — not raw model capability — determine whether the system stays in the loop. Agentic has become a marketing flag, but in code review it carries a precise technical meaning: the system, not the user, decides which tools to invoke against a change, in what order, and how to weight their findings. A linter runs a fixed pipeline. A single-pass language-model reviewer reads the diff and emits co