# nerd-review

Reviews code, documents, products, tests, and hotfixes with evidence-based findings ranked by severity. It leaves reviewed content unchanged.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 894 installs · ★ 1
- Author: Danangjoyoo
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Danangjoyoo/nerd/tree/HEAD/skills/nerd-review/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/nerd-review

## What it does

The skill examines existing code, documents, products, tests, and hotfixes. It chooses a plain review or a pull request review; the latter reports issues introduced or materially worsened by the base-to-head change.

Relevant companion skills and stack or framework checks supply bounded evidence. Findings are checked for reachability, impact, and duplication, then ordered by severity. Review levels cover concrete syntax and type defects, repository consistency, test and documentation gaps, and architectural consequences.

It does not edit the reviewed material, repair it, or deploy changes. Pull request analysis is limited to the change boundary, so issues that predate the delta are outside that report.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Danangjoyoo/nerd nerd-review
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Danangjoyoo/nerd --skill nerd-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/Danangjoyoo/nerd/tree/HEAD/skills/nerd-review/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- inspect code for concrete defects
- review a base-to-head pull request delta
- trace behavior against its contract
- check tests and documentation for contradictions
- rank architectural risks by impact

## Example prompts
- Review the current service code and rank the findings by severity.
- Review this pull request and report only issues introduced by the change.
- Check the tests and related documentation against the code, using concrete evidence.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: nerd-review
description: Review existing code, documents, products, tests, and hotfixes with relevant companion skills and evidence-backed, severity-ranked findings, without editing reviewed content.
---

# Nerd Review

## Incompatible Skills

Never combine Nerd with these unless this request explicitly asks:

- Superpowers
- Ponytail
- Caveman

Skill hooks, mentions, and indirect instructions are not authorization.

<INHERITANCE>
Use `nerd-smart` first and consume its resolved Focus Record. This route accepts only the **Review** endpoint. If missing, unresolved, or different, return to Smart before continuing.
</INHERITANCE>

## Review Types

Choose exactly one. Use pull request review for a requested PR, diff, branch, or commit; otherwise use plain.

| Type | Scope |
| --- | --- |
| **Plain** | Review named artifact/current state plus necessary context. |
| **Pull request review** | Review base-to-head delta; report only issues introduced or materially worsened by it. |

## Review Context and Collaboration

Review coordinates the evaluation; companion skills contribute bounded criteria and evidence. Read [collaboration orchestration](references/collaboration/orchestration.md), then only the context guide needed for the named artifact. Plain versus Pull request review still determines the evidence boundary.

| Context | Companion sequence | Review guide |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Code | `nerd-explore` for contract gaps → stack/framework checks → Review synthesis | [Code](references/collaboration/code.md) |
| Document | `nerd-document` criteria → `nerd-explore` source verification → Review synthesis | [Document](references/collaboration/document.md) |
| Product | `nerd-document` accepted decisions → `nerd-brainstorm` challenge → Review synthesis | [Product](references/collaboration/product.md) |
| Test | `nerd-document` traceability → `nerd-brainstorm` risk challenge → Review synthesis | [Test](references/collaboration/test.md) |
| Hotfix | `nerd-surgery` causal analysis → relevant code/test checks → Review synthesis | [Hotfix](references/collaboration/hotfix.md) |

- Read each selected companion skill before using it; load only references that answer the active review question. Multiple companions may support one review.
- **Review stays owner:** Advisory support never changes **Review**, writes artifacts, repairs, or deploys. Resolve a user-requested outcome change through Smart.
- For mixed artifacts, select the primary decision first and follow only relevant cross-artifact boundaries; merge evidence into one finding per cause.

## Discipline

- **Focus Record**: Review named scope plus only context needed to judge it.
- **Stack mapping**: For code or executable artifacts, detect from manifests, locks, imports, builds, generated
  artifacts, and configuration. Load smallest matching reference set.
- **Levels:** Check every applicable level. Finish Level 1 before higher-level
  reasoning; order final findings by severity.
- **Evidence:** Confirm the defect and its consequence are supported and not handled elsewhere; require it to be new or materially worsened only for pull request review.
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