code-review
Review a GitHub PR or a diff for bugs, security, performance, and code quality. Use when asked to review a PR or give pull request feedback, even when the diff is pasted inline. Don't use for local uncommitted changes, creating PRs, or merging.
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SKILL.md
--- name: code-review effort: high description: Review a GitHub PR or a diff for bugs, security, performance, and code quality. Use when asked to review a PR or give pull request feedback, even when the diff is pasted inline. Don't use for local uncommitted changes, creating PRs, or merging. argument-hint: '[PR] [BUGS|SECURITY|PERFORMANCE]' --- # Review Pull Request Arguments: $ARGUMENTS — a PR number or URL, and/or a mode. `BUGS`, `SECURITY`, or `PERFORMANCE` narrows the review to that axis; otherwise apply all. ## Input A diff pasted inline → review that text, nothing to fetch. Otherwise the PR number or URL, else the current branch's PR → `gh pr view` + `gh pr diff`. No PR found → ask for one. ## Approval standard Approve when the change definitely improves overall code health, even if it isn't perfect. Don't block a change because it isn't how you would have written it. If it improves the codebase and follows its conventions, approve. If the change is too large to review well (~1000+ lines), asking the author to split it is a valid outcome. Suggest a strategy: stack (small change, next one based on it), by file group, horizontal (shared code first, then consumers), or vertical (one end-to-end slice per PR). ## Review criteria Review every changed file, not just the latest commit. Review the tests first: do they test behavior, cover the edge cases, and would they catch a regression? With the branch checked out locally, answer the last one by experiment: invert one condition the change adds, run the suite, restore the file. Still green → a missing test; name it. - **Correctness**: logic bugs, off-by-ones, race conditions, unhandled states, missing error paths - **Readability**: functions > 50 lines, nesting > 2 levels, dead code, unused imports - **Security**: exposed secrets, unvalidated external data - **Type safety & immutability**: `any` or unjustified assertions; in-place mutation of shared data - **Patterns**: consistent with codebase conventions, no reinvented wheels - **Performance**: unnecessary re-renders, O(n²) where O(n) works - **Code smells**: match the diff against the baseline in [smells.md](references/smells.md) — always judgement calls; the repo's documented style overrides the baseline - **Dependency upgrades** (manifest/lockfile in the diff): one dependency per change — a bulk bump that breaks hides which package did it; verify against the changelog, not the version number; review the lockfile diff (one direct bump pulls dozens of transitive changes); flag hand-edited lockfiles ## Output Group by severity, `file:line` on every finding, a suggested fix for every Critical: - **Critical** — must fix before merge (bugs, vulnerabilities) - **Suggestions** — improvements worth considering - **Nit** — minor and optional; label true nitpicks as Nit rather than dropping or inflating them - **FYI** — informational - **Positives** — good patterns to call out One structural problem and ten nits: the structural problem _is_ the review — lead with it. Close with the verdict against the approval standard.