# code-review

Reviews code for actionable defects, with correctness as the default focus. Use it for change reviews, bug hunts, and safety checks on fixes.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 310 installs · ★ 27382
- Author: phuryn
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills/tree/HEAD/pm-ai-shipping/skills/code-review/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-16
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/phuryn-code-review

## What it does

This skill looks for broken agreements across code boundaries: caller and callee, producer and consumer, or state written now and read later. It constructs a reachable failing execution, traces the observable result, and tests counterarguments before reporting a finding.

Correctness is the default dimension. Performance can trace workload through resource demand and contention, while security follows a source across a trust boundary to a sink. A single root cause with several impacts is reported once.

In Claude Code, call `/pm-ai-shipping:code-review`, because the bundled `/code-review` is a different tool. The skill can review working changes or a repository, and it applies fixes only when explicitly asked.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill code-review -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill code-review -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install phuryn/pm-skills code-review
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills --path pm-ai-shipping/skills/code-review
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill code-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/phuryn/pm-skills/tree/HEAD/pm-ai-shipping/skills/code-review/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find mismatches between callers and callees
- check whether accepted values replace requested values
- reproduce failures during concurrent operations
- trace operation results back to the right entity
- audit changes for correctness and security defects

## Example prompts
- \`/pm-ai-shipping:code-review`
- \`/pm-ai-shipping:code-review dimensions=correctness scope=changes`
- \`/pm-ai-shipping:code-review dimensions=performance,security`

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: code-review
description: "Review code for actionable defects. Correctness is the core; performance and security are optional sub-cases of the same engine. Anchors on agreements between participants across a boundary, forces a violating execution, and refutes every candidate before reporting. Use when asked to review changes, find bugs, audit a codebase, or check whether a fix is safe."
---

# Code Review

## Purpose

Most review output is noise: a list of things that *look* wrong, unranked, unrefuted, and impossible
to act on. This skill produces the opposite — a small number of findings, each with a required
behaviour, a feasible trigger, a concrete contradiction, an observable consequence, and the strongest
counterargument already checked.

Its central bet: **the defects reviewers miss are rarely visible inside one file.** They are
disagreements between two participants that each look reasonable alone — a caller and a callee, a
producer and a consumer, a writer and a later reader, two branches that should establish the same
state. A checklist applied file-by-file cannot see those, because the two halves are never in view at
the same time. So the unit of review here is the **agreement**, not the file.

## Structure: one engine, three anchors

Code review is the skill. **Correctness is its core** — the dimension generic tooling covers worst,
and the one described in full below. **Performance and security are sub-cases**: the same engine, the
same refutation discipline, the same report contract, with a different anchor and one or two extra
rules each.

| Sub-case | Anchor | Where its rules live |
|---|---|---|
| **Correctness** *(core, default)* | Agreements between participants across a boundary | This file + `references/correctness-taxonomy.md` |
| **Performance** | Workload → resource demand → growth or contention → consequence | `references/performance-review.md` |
| **Security** | Source → trust boundary → sink, with an attacker controlling the source | `references/security-review.md` |

Read a sub-case's file only when that sub-case is selected. Each is short on purpose: it states what
*differs*, and the rest of this file still applies.

Sub-cases are independently *activated*, not mutually exclusive. One root cause can carry correctness
and security impact — report it once, with both impacts.

## Invocation

```
/pm-ai-shipping:code-review
/pm-ai-shipping:code-review dimensions=correctness scope=changes
/pm-ai-shipping:code-review dimensions=performance,security
/pm-ai-shipping:code-review dimensions=all
```

Claude Code ships its own bundled `/code-review`. Use the plugin-qualified form above when you mean
this one.

These are instruction arguments, not shell flags.

- **Default: `correctness`.** Bare "review this" or "find bugs" means correctness only.
- An explicit list selects exactly those sub-cases; `all` selects three. Never silently reinterpret
  an unknown or empty selection — ask.
- **Scope:** use what was asked. Otherwise review working changes if present, else the repository.
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