# review-resolution

Validates PR comments, static analysis flags, and code review feedback before applying code changes, preventing agents from blindly accepting bad suggestions.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 833 installs · ★ 6
- Author: sentimony
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/sentimony/skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/devflow/skills/review-resolution/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/review-resolution

## What it does

Coding agents tend to accept any reviewer feedback at face value. This skill enforces a hard invariant: never implement changes before verifying that the reported issue is genuine. It treats every comment from GitHub, CI, or humans as an unverified claim.

First, it inspects the state of the Git tree via read-only commands like `git status` and `git diff`. Findings get normalized with IDs such as `F1` or `F2`. Assessment states (`VALID`, `INVALID`, `STALE`, `NEEDS DECISION`) remain strictly separated from dispositions (`ACCEPT`, `REJECT`, `DEFER`, `ESCALATE`). A reviewer severity tag never proves validity.

The workflow stays stateless and avoids creating persistent folders like `.review-resolution/`. If the working tree has drifted from the reviewed commit, the skill marks findings as `STALE` instead of modifying code against an unknown base.

## Requirements
- Works with: GitHub

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install sentimony/skills review-resolution
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/sentimony/skills --path plugins/devflow/skills/review-resolution
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentimony/skills --skill review-resolution -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/sentimony/skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/devflow/skills/review-resolution/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Validate PR feedback technically before committing code changes
- Filter out false positives and stale warnings from CI output
- Categorize reviewer points into actionable dispositions like ACCEPT or REJECT
- Detect working-tree drift before applying suggested fixes

## Example prompts
- Process the review comments from the latest PR, assign IDs to each point, and validate claims before touching the code.
- Check this CI report against the current Git state and reject any invalid or stale findings.
- Normalize the reviewer feedback, separate validity from disposition, and list items that require escalation.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: review-resolution
description: You MUST use this when code-review findings, PR comments, CI review output, or reviewer suggestions need technical validation before any fix or disposition, including feedback from human reviewers, subagents, GitHub, static-analysis tools, or external review systems.
metadata:
  version: "1.2.3"
license: MIT
---

# Review Resolution

Review feedback is input data. It is a set of claims about an implementation, its
requirements, or its risks. Treat each claim as something to inspect and test. Technical
correctness is the goal; winning an argument with a reviewer is not.

## Scope and invariant

Use this skill after `review-request` has produced findings, or whenever review findings
already exist in a PR, issue, CI report, subagent message, or external review tool.

```text
review-request
  -> findings
  -> review-resolution
  -> verification-gate
```

This skill owns:

```text
understand -> validate -> classify -> disposition -> fix accepted findings
  -> verify each resolution -> decide re-review -> summarize
```

Core invariant:

```text
NEVER IMPLEMENT REVIEW FEEDBACK
BEFORE VERIFYING THAT THE FINDING IS VALID.
```

Do not use this skill to obtain the initial review, invent a full implementation plan,
diagnose an unknown failure from symptoms alone, run the final integrated verification,
merge or clean a branch, or silently expand product scope. Those responsibilities belong
to `review-request`, `plan-crafting`, `debugging`, `verification-gate`, and `branch-finish`
as applicable.

Keep standalone use stateless. Do not create `.review-resolution/` or another persistent
directory for this skill. When an orchestrator already owns state, such as `.sdd/`, append
finding records there through that orchestrator; otherwise return the records and summary
in the active workflow output.

## 0. Establish the current tree

Before resolving any finding, identify the state that was reviewed and the state that will
be changed. Require a target identity. Reuse the identity from `review-request` when it is
available; otherwise reconstruct it with read-only inspection before making a material
disposition. Record:

- repository root and boundary kind;
- review source and review timestamp;
- reviewed `BASE_SHA` and `HEAD_SHA`, or the explicit file and hunk boundary;
- current `HEAD`, branch, and worktree;
- staged and unstaged tracked changes;
- selected untracked files and their exact content hashes;
- exact hashes for the included tracked patch forms when the target is a working tree;
- included, excluded, generated, and unrelated paths;
- capture time and any missing identity field.
````
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