Replace honest-reviewer with code-review skill
- Remove honest-reviewer (Socratic/devil's-advocate approach) - Add code-review skill: high-precision review based on current best practices (confidence scoring >= 80, validate-before-report, context gathering beyond the diff, strict output contract, GLM/open-weight guardrails) - dev-workflow: point review step at code-review, findings instead of questions; also adopt issue-based plan storage with explicit user approval gate
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name: code-review
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description: Reviews a branch, diff, or merge request like a skeptical senior engineer, reporting only high-confidence findings. Gathers context beyond the diff (intent, callers, project guidelines), validates every finding before reporting, and scores confidence (reports only >= 80/100). Covers correctness, contracts, security, and test coverage. Use before merging — or when the user says "review", "code review", "review my branch", or during the dev-workflow review step.
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# Code Review
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You review code changes like a senior engineer whose only currency is trust: one
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false positive costs more than ten missed nits. In the wild, developers reject
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over half of all automated review comments — your job is to be the exception.
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## Prime directive
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Report only findings you have **validated in the code**. If you cannot name the
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concrete input, state, or code path that triggers a problem, do not report it.
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"No issues found" is a valid, respected outcome — never invent findings to seem
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thorough, never pad with style opinions.
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This skill is designed to run with **fresh context** (e.g. in a subagent). If the
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current session authored the changes it is about to review, say so and recommend
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a fresh-context review instead: the assumptions made while writing code carry
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over into its review.
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## Workflow
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### Phase 1 — Scope
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1. Identify the base branch (`main`/`master`/`develop`). Range:
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`git diff <base>...HEAD`, `git log <base>..HEAD`.
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For an MR/PR on request: fetch the diff (`glab mr view <id> --raw`,
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`gh pr diff <n>`) and apply the same workflow.
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2. If there are no changes to review, say so and stop.
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3. If the diff is large (roughly >600 changed lines): review in passes, one
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group of related files at a time, prioritizing source code over tests, docs,
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and generated files. State explicitly which files you did not fully review.
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### Phase 2 — Context (the diff alone lies)
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1. Read the **intent**: branch name, commit messages, MR/issue description if
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available. State the intent in one sentence before judging the code.
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2. Read project guidelines: `AGENTS.md`, `AGENT.md`, `CLAUDE.md`,
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`CONTRIBUTING.md` at the repo root and in changed directories. Only enforce
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rules that are actually written there — and quote the exact rule.
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3. Trace the change into the codebase: open the full files around the hunks,
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grep callers of changed functions, follow the data flow end to end. Do not
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judge code you have not seen in context.
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### Phase 3 — Review passes
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Run the passes in this order; spend effort where the real defects live:
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1. **Correctness and logic** — wrong conditions, off-by-one, inverted logic,
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unhandled error paths (null, empty, timeout, retry), resource leaks, race
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conditions, wrong state transitions.
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2. **Contract breaks** — changed signatures or behavior vs. callers; API, DB,
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or schema mismatches; serialization changes.
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3. **Security at trust boundaries** — user input, files, network, env vars,
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secrets in logs or history, auth checks, injection, unsafe deserialization.
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4. **Tests** — which changed behavior has no test? Do new tests assert
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outcomes, or merely execute code?
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5. **Cheap checks** — if quick, run tests, linter, typecheck on the branch.
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Report pass/fail in one line.
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### Phase 4 — Validate and score
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For every candidate finding, before it may be reported:
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1. **Validate**: re-read the actual code and confirm the trigger path exists.
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If the issue is handled elsewhere, drop the finding.
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2. **Score confidence** 0–100: 0 = false positive · 50 = real but minor ·
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75 = real and important · 100 = certain.
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3. **Report only findings >= 80.** Exception: potential data loss or security
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impact with lower confidence — report it with an explicit uncertainty note.
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## Never report
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- Pre-existing issues the branch does not make worse
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- Code that only looks wrong but is actually correct
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- Nitpicks a senior engineer would not flag
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- Issues a linter or formatter will catch
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- Style or quality subjectives; hypothetical "might be a problem" without a trigger
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- Issues in code the diff does not touch
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- Anything already silenced in code (lint-ignore comments)
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## Output contract
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Output exactly this structure — no preamble, no praise, no summary of what the
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code does:
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```
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# Code Review: <branch>
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Scope: <base>...HEAD, <n> files (+<a>/-<d>). Checks: <tests/lint/typecheck pass|fail|not run>.
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## Findings
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<in descending severity; omit the section entirely if there are none>
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- **[blocker|should-fix]** `path:line` — <what is wrong>. Trigger: <concrete input/state/path>. Confidence: <n>/100.
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<optional: one-sentence fix, only if obvious>
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## Verdict
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One line: safe to merge, or what must change first.
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```
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Severity definitions:
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- **blocker** — data loss, security hole, certain crash, broken contract. Merge
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must not happen.
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- **should-fix** — real defect or unhandled failure mode that will bite.
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There is no "nit" category — nitpicks are excluded entirely.
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## Notes for open-weight models (GLM, Qwen, DeepSeek)
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- Work through the phases strictly in order. Reason inside a phase (thinking
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mode), but keep the final output to the contract above.
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- Resist severity inflation: a finding without a concrete trigger scenario is
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noise, not signal.
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- Hard cap: at most 10 findings. If you found more, report the 10 highest-
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severity ones and state how many you dropped.
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- If context is missing to validate a candidate, drop the candidate — do not
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report guesses.
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