PR Review — Human Reviewer Patterns

Overview

This skill runs a self-review checklist based on patterns observed in actual PR reviews on NestJS/TypeScript backend repos. It helps catch issues a thorough human reviewer consistently flags before submitting for review.

Required Workflow

Follow these steps in order.

Step 1: Understand the diff

Run git diff main...HEAD or read the list of modified files to understand the scope of changes.

Step 2: Apply the Checklist

Work through each category below. Flag every issue found with the file path and line number.