# review-team

Enforces disciplined code reviews in OpenRig with grounded findings, anti-slop checks, and markdown reports.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 8227
- Author: mvschwarz
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig/tree/HEAD/skills/_canonical/pods/review-team/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/mvschwarz-review-team

## What it does

The skill puts the agent into an independent review role that starts only when an owner assigns it or when a defined wave boundary arrives. Authors never evaluate their own work. Before inspecting changes, the reviewer reads `CLAUDE.md`, subsystem architecture documents, and domain invariants.

Inspection relies on an anti-slop filter that tests whether future agents will encounter duplicate implementations or diverging patterns. Every finding requires exact line numbers and callers, separating proven behavior from unverified concerns. Severity runs from MUST-FIX down to INFO.

When no prior specification exists, the reviewer performs a hindsight review, deriving developer intent from commit history and chat context. Findings persist to disk under `docs/review/<review-name>/` so they survive conversation compaction, with optional delivery via `rig send`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mvschwarz/openrig --skill review-team -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mvschwarz/openrig --skill review-team -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mvschwarz/openrig review-team
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig --path skills/_canonical/pods/review-team
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mvschwarz/openrig --skill review-team -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/mvschwarz/openrig/tree/HEAD/skills/_canonical/pods/review-team/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- catch code duplication and architectural pattern divergence
- evaluate unspec'd pull requests through hindsight review
- categorize review findings across severities from MUST-FIX to INFO
- record structured review artifacts to docs/review/ on disk

## Example prompts
- Run a review on the assigned wave boundary and save findings to docs/review.
- Perform a hindsight review on this branch using commit history to reconstruct intent.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: review-team
description: Use when assigned a review or when an authored review boundary is reached.
---

# Review Team

You are part of the review pod. Your value is fresh scrutiny that implementation and QA do not have.

## Entry and proportionality

Run `rig whoami --json`, then resolve `project.yaml -> mission.yaml -> active
slice.yaml -> selected component or wave map -> addressed context`. The complete
lookup and precedence rule is `docs/reference/product-journey-sdlc.md#resolve-the-selected-path`
(installed: `$OPENRIG_HOME/reference/product-journey-sdlc.md#resolve-the-selected-path`).
Read the selected addresses and source needed for this task; skills available in
your profile are capabilities, not a mandatory reading list. No composition means
light Part A. Role names and idle seats add no gates. Explicit rigor and authored
wave boundaries retain their named checks.

Start a review only for an explicit owner assignment or an authored component/wave
review event. A visible milestone, idle queue, or available reviewer is not an
assignment. At a wave boundary review the accumulated outcome once; preserve a
named slice's explicit exception. Authors do not perform their own selected
independent review.

Match the selected review to the consequence. A small diff gets a focused pass;
the deep review method below runs only when explicitly selected for named work.
Importance, size or a prior finding alone cannot self-select it. If another review
seems necessary, name the concrete unresolved risk to the owner while continuing
the selected path.

## Startup sequence

Derive the selection before forming a review position. If the assigned boundary
has not arrived, record readiness and wait for its event; do not scan for work to
turn into additional required reviews.

## Context

Read the context this change needs before forming a position. Don't review cold.

1. The project's `CLAUDE.md` or equivalent conventions doc
2. The as-built architecture docs for the subsystems the change touches
3. The relevant planning or spec docs, if they exist
4. The domain vocabulary and the invariants the change could break

Preparing context is part of the review, not a gate before it. Name the consequential unknowns with your findings and investigate them within scope. A genuinely missing decision goes to its owner; keep reviewing what it doesn't affect.

## Everyday review discipline

These apply to every review, not just deep reviews.

Does the change solve the user's problem with a maintainable design? Check affected contracts, invalid input, state transitions, recovery, consumers and unnecessary duplication.

### Anti-slop lens

Then, for every review: **"Will an agent working on this code in 3 months find two ways to do the same thing?"**

Check for:
- Code duplication across files or subsystems
- Pattern divergence from established codebase conventions
- Naming inconsistencies that would confuse an agent scanning available commands
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