Review Principles

The shared base every CDK review-dimension skill (cdk-regression-review, cdk-security-review, cdk-testing-review, cdk-documentation-review, cdk-construct-design-review) applies, so these rules never drift. A dimension skill decides what it flags and how to calibrate it; it never redefines anything below.

Severity — rate by the harm it does when it triggers

Ask one question of every finding: if this ships and the code path is reached, what breaks, and how badly? That answer sets the tier — not the wording, not how confident you are it triggers. Three tiers, keyed to the kind of harm: