# meticulous-review

Review Meticulous test-run results against the intended PR changes, flag possible regressions, and pass issues on for a separate fix pass.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 8600 installs · ★ 10
- Author: alwaysmeticulous
- License: ISC · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/alwaysmeticulous/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/meticulous-review/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/meticulous-review

## What it does

This skill helps examine visual changes from a Meticulous test run against what a PR is meant to change. It uses each diff’s review state: unreviewed changes need assessment, while accepted or ignored ones without open comments are already settled. The workflow also summarizes Agent swarm results.

Inspect the before and after screenshots, the diff image, and the DOM diff. For changes that are hard to explain, a timeline diff can help trace the cause. The run can be resolved from the local checkout’s current commit or selected by test-run ID, commit SHA, or PR number. The CLI waits for completion by default; with MCP, poll until the status is `complete` or `failed`.

The workflow calls for running `meticulous-cli-update` first, unless it has already run in the conversation. Review and implementation are separate: items needing changes go to `meticulous-fix`. Don’t expect this skill to edit the PR code itself.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add alwaysmeticulous/skills --skill meticulous-review -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/meticulous-review/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/meticulous-review/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add alwaysmeticulous/skills --skill meticulous-review -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/meticulous-review/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add alwaysmeticulous/skills --skill meticulous-review -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/meticulous-review/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install alwaysmeticulous/skills meticulous-review
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/meticulous-review/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add alwaysmeticulous/skills --skill meticulous-review -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/alwaysmeticulous/skills --path skills/meticulous-review
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/meticulous-review/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add alwaysmeticulous/skills --skill meticulous-review -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/alwaysmeticulous/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/meticulous-review/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- compare visual diffs with the PR’s intended changes
- spot a possible regression in a replay screenshot
- trace an unexpected UI change through DOM and timeline diffs
- collect rejected diffs and comments for a fix pass

## Example prompts
- Review the Meticulous results for the current commit against the PR description.
- Check the Meticulous run for this PR and flag visual changes that are not expected.
- Inspect the Meticulous results and pass issues that need code changes to `meticulous-fix`.

## Source text · SKILL.md · ISC

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---
name: meticulous-review
description: Work through a Meticulous test run's results, reacting to their review state — review the unreviewed diffs (and any failing non-visual checks) against what the PR is meant to change, flagging potential regressions; when you're working on the PR's code, hand what needs fixing (diffs someone rejected or commented on, and your own rejections) to the `meticulous-fix` skill; also summarizes any Agent swarm results. Resolves the test run from the local repo's current commit (the default), or from an explicit test-run ID, commit SHA or PR number. Use whenever a run's results matter — reviewing a pull/merge request, right after pushing a frontend change yourself, when its Meticulous CI check is failing or pending, or when asked to look at Meticulous results.
user-invocable: true
---

To work through a Meticulous test run, follow the workflow below step by step, using the CLI or MCP commands as described. You don't need to know up front whether the run still needs reviewing or someone has already reviewed it: Step 1 reads its review state, and that decides what follows.

> Before starting, run the `meticulous-cli-update` skill to ensure the Meticulous CLI and skills are up to date — unless it has already run earlier in this conversation, in which case skip it.

While reviewing, treat yourself as a **reviewer, not the implementer** — even if you did write the change earlier in this conversation. Classify each diff on its merits; fixing is a separate pass afterwards (Step 12), not something to interleave with the review. If you're mid-implementation and want to loop against Meticulous until things look right, see the `meticulous-iterative-dev` skill for feature work with intended visual changes, or the `meticulous-zero-diff-task` skill when the UI must not change.

## Step 0 -- Establish what's expected

Before looking at any diff, work out what visual change this PR is _supposed_ to produce:

- **If you already have full context** (same conversation that implemented the change, or the user just described the task), use that.
- **Otherwise** — fetch the PR description (e.g. `gh pr view <number> --json title,body` for GitHub, `glab mr view <id> --output json --jq '{title,description}'` for GitLab, or for Bitbucket `twg bitbucket pull-requests get <id>` if the [Teamwork Graph CLI](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/twg-cli/) is available — follow its `twg-engineering-work` skill if that's installed, and run `twg setup bitbucket` once if it asks for a Bitbucket token — else `GET /2.0/repositories/{workspace}/{repo_slug}/pullrequests/{id}?fields=title,description`) and pull out a brief bullet-point summary of any visual changes it calls out as expected.
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