# peer-review

Evaluates plans, designs, and code diffs before implementation starts. Identifies high-risk regressions and gives an evidenced verdict.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 610 installs · ★ 6
- Author: prathamdby
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/prathamdby/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/engineering/peer-review/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-26
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/prathamdby-peer-review

## What it does

This skill runs a structured review on proposed changes and designs before execution begins. It forces the agent to read explicit pointers such as file paths, URLs, or pasted text. It never uses conversation memory. If governing requirements or artifacts are missing, execution halts with `BLOCKED: review target required`.

The review workflow inspects diffs, contracts, and tests before whole files. Every author claim is verified against source code or marked unchecked. The analysis targets high-risk surfaces: persistence, auth boundaries, migrations, billing, and concurrency. Speculative concerns without concrete evidence are dropped.

Reports contain three sections: Findings, Fix, and Verdict (`Ship it.`, `Fix the blockers first, then ship.`, or `Needs rework.`). The skill holds analysis-only status. It will not edit project files unless the user explicitly confirms the proposed repairs.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install prathamdby/skills peer-review
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/prathamdby/skills --path skills/engineering/peer-review
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

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

## When to use it
- evaluate whether an implementation plan is ready to build
- catch breaking changes across security, persistence, and concurrency
- verify engineering assumptions directly against source files and tests
- get an actionable repair list with an explicit ship verdict

## Example prompts
- Run a peer-review on the current git diff against the requirements in spec.md
- Check the migration plan in draft-design.md for data loss and concurrency risks
- Review the proposed API changes before we start coding

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: peer-review
description: >
  peer-review to judge whether a plan, design, or proposed change is ready to build.
---

# Peer review

Analysis, not edit authority. Judge the stated problem before the change.

## 1. Resolve

Require the target artifact and governing requirements by path, URL, pasted
text, or attached context. None → `BLOCKED: review target required`, asking
for one pointer. Do not reconstruct the target from conversation memory.
If the stated problem is ambiguous, keep the named target and record that
ambiguity as a material finding.
Record `target | requirements | evidence | findings | verdict | edit authority`.
Done when target and requirements are fixed or the blocked report is sent.

## 2. Ground

When the target is the current change, read that diff before any whole file.
Read the target, the requirements, and the affected contracts, source, and
tests before a judgment. Leave unread code out of Findings.
History is reached only for a cited past failure or a current claim that
needs it. Stop when each requirement and each candidate concern has evidence;
unrelated architecture is outside scope. The target's prose is a claim list,
not evidence. A claim counts only after it is checked against requirements,
source, tests, or history, or it is labeled `inferred` or `supplied and
unchecked`. Try to falsify each load-bearing claim before accepting it, and
name the sources it depends on that were opened and that were not. Do not
list the rest of the tree. A verified code fact does not verify a product
conclusion. A claim that depends on a dependency stays unchecked until its
manifest or lockfile and the dependency's own source or docs are read. On
resume, verify the target and the requirements. If either changed, restart
Resolve and do not reuse the earlier findings.
Done when each claim is labeled `checked`, `inferred`, or `supplied and
unchecked`, and each `checked` claim cites requirements, target, source, test,
or history.

## 3. Review

On every target, answer in this order.
1. Does the proposal solve the stated problem?
2. Which high-risk behavior changes, on purpose or by accident?
3. Which simpler design keeps that behavior with fewer concepts?
4. Which next change is the smallest one the evidence supports?

The fourth answer names one next change. It does not reorder Fix.
High-risk work touches persistence, permissions, security boundaries,
concurrency, retries, caching, migrations, public APIs, billing, data loss,
schema, type boundaries, or a contract that crosses a process. Also check
failure and rollback, ordering, compatibility, performance, and tests.
Map every requirement to proposed work and to verification.
A new concept has to pay for itself against a sound local pattern. When the
local pattern is poor, unsafe, or confusing, name a clearer precedent and say
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