/antimatter-code-quality-review

Total annihilation: no finding survives unless it survives refutation.

Overview

This skill performs the strictest available structural read of a change. It targets the ambitious restructurings a conventional review omits — simplifications that preserve behavior while collapsing whole categories of complexity — and reports them with zero tolerance for false positives.

The standard is not aggression. The dominant failure mode of a strict review is severity theater: findings invented or inflated to satisfy a "be harsh" instruction, which buries real signal and degrades trust. The standard here is annihilation. A finding is reported only if it survives an adversarial refutation pass, carries a concrete before→after, and is shown to preserve behavior. Everything that fails any of those is destroyed before output.

The report is short, ranked, and entirely load-bearing. A review incapable of returning a clean approval is itself defective.

Scope

The review surface is the diff against the base branch. Code outside the diff is examined only where a finding's blast radius reaches it, and that reach is stated explicitly. Reviewing untouched code is the cause of runaway, off-target reviews.

Excluded

Whitespace, naming-only changes, and any defect a linter or formatter catches are out of scope. Those surfaces are owned by automated tooling and are not reported here.