Code Review Guide Skill

Bad code review nitpicks style while missing the design flaw, or dumps 40 ungraded comments. Good review is prioritized and kind: it catches what actually matters (correctness, security, design), separates blocking issues from nits, explains the why, and leaves the author better. This skill runs that review.

Not quite this? Use code-review-checklist when you only need a checklist tailored to one change; use ai-code-review when most of the change was written by an AI assistant; use infra-as-code-review when the change is Terraform, CloudFormation or other infrastructure code.

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:

• The change — the diff/PR, and ideally its description/intent (what it's trying to do).
• Context — language/stack, conventions, the part of the system it touches, risk level.
• Focus (optional) — anything specific to scrutinize (security, performance, a tricky area).

Output Format

Review: [PR / change]