# Skills for Code review and refactoring Skills for Code review and refactoring: what each one does, an install command and example prompts. 1465 cards · page 15 of 37 - HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/topic/code-review?page=15 - Instructions for agents: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/agents.md - [principle-sequence-verifiable-units](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/principle-sequence-verifiable-units.md) — skill · backnotprop · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 5100 installs — Guides coding agents to break multi-step sweeps and migrations into verifiable units. - [principle-test-behavior-not-implementation](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/principle-test-behavior-not-implementation.md) — skill · backnotprop · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 5200 installs — A rule for tests you write or keep: assert what callers can observe. - [principle-minimize-reader-load](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/principle-minimize-reader-load.md) — skill · backnotprop · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 5200 installs — A skill that spots unnecessary layers of abstraction and hidden state slowing down code comprehension. - [principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis.md) — skill · backnotprop · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 5200 installs — Instructs the assistant to migrate internal callers and delete legacy APIs in a single wave, skipping temporary compatibility layers. - [principle-model-the-domain](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/principle-model-the-domain.md) — skill · backnotprop · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 5200 installs — Guides an agent to model domain rules in data structures instead of growing conditionals. - [principle-redesign-from-first-principles](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/principle-redesign-from-first-principles.md) — skill · backnotprop · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 5200 installs — A skill that makes the agent rebuild an existing design as if the new requirement had been there from day one. - [principle-build-the-lever](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/principle-build-the-lever.md) — skill · backnotprop · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 5200 installs — A skill that pushes the agent to write a codemod, script or generator for non-trivial work instead of editing by hand, so the result can be rerun. - [principle-make-operations-idempotent](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/principle-make-operations-idempotent.md) — skill · backnotprop · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 5200 installs — A skill for writing commands and processing loops that converge to the same state regardless of restarts, crashes, or retries. - [principle-subtract-before-you-add](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/principle-subtract-before-you-add.md) — skill · backnotprop · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 5200 installs — A development skill that enforces removing dead code, stubs, and unused validators before writing new features or refactoring. - [no-comments](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/no-comments.md) — skill · backnotprop · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 5200 installs — The skill spawns a comment-sicko subagent, deletes comments that explain nothing, and asks you before encoding real constraints as checks. - [msbuild-antipatterns](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/msbuild-antipatterns.md) — skill · dotnet · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 3900 installs — Audits MSBuild project files and targets to surface anti-patterns. - [refactoring-patterns](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/refactoring-patterns.md) — skill · wondelai · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 6300 installs — A skill that improves code structure through named, behavior-preserving transformations. - [swiftui-view-refactor](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/swiftui-view-refactor.md) — skill (official OpenAI) · OpenAI · Codex, ChatGPT · 113 installs — Refactors SwiftUI view files into clean, testable structures with dedicated subview types and proper Observation ownership. - [plannotator-review](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/plannotator-review.md) — skill · backnotprop · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 755 installs — Launches Plannotator's browser UI for code review and feeds feedback back to the agent. - [teach](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/backnotprop-teach.md) — skill · backnotprop · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 5100 installs — The skill explains codebases and architecture plainly without walls of text. - [principle-separate-before-serializing-shared-state](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/principle-separate-before-serializing-shared-state.md) — skill · backnotprop · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 5100 installs — Architectural guideline for concurrent actors: eliminate shared mutable state across files or keys first, resorting to locks only when a single writer is strictly required. - [principle-attack-the-premise](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/principle-attack-the-premise.md) — skill · backnotprop · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 5100 installs — This skill tests the shared premise behind repeated failed fixes. - [principle-foundational-thinking](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/principle-foundational-thinking.md) — skill · backnotprop · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 5100 installs — A principle set for the stage before logic: pick core types and data structures, order the scaffold, check what concurrent actors share. - [narrow-react-prop-types](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/narrow-react-prop-types.md) — skill · humanlayer · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 1300 installs — A skill that cuts React component prop types back to the contract your live code actually uses, then makes stories and tests match it instead of weakening it. - [solid](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/solid.md) — skill · ramziddin · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 3500 installs — Enforces TDD workflows, SOLID design, and strict clean code constraints across coding tasks. - [software-design-philosophy](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/software-design-philosophy.md) — skill · wondelai · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 6100 installs — A design-review skill that rates module depth, information leakage and comment quality, then names the fix for each failed check. - [play-policy-insights](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/play-policy-insights.md) — skill · Google LLC · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 1300 installs — Audits Android applications against Google Play Policy rules before submission. - [lesson-learned](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/lesson-learned.md) — skill · softaworks · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 3000 installs — Analyzes recent git changes and extracts engineering takeaways directly from your code. - [typescript-variables](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/typescript-variables.md) — skill · mkosir · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 3800 installs — Applies TypeScript variable conventions: const assertions, enum replacement with literal types, unions over boolean flags, null vs undefined distinction. - [typescript-discriminated-unions](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/typescript-discriminated-unions.md) — skill · mkosir · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 3800 installs — Guides coding agents to apply discriminated unions in TypeScript, eliminating invalid states and enabling exhaustiveness checks. - [pi-delegate](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/pi-delegate.md) — skill · amElnagdy · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 3600 installs — This skill sends coding work to the Pi agent in the background, then keeps diff review and landing with the orchestrator. - [mantis-advise](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/mantis-advise.md) — skill (official Google) · google · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 1000 installs — The skill makes your coding agent check a project's security knowledge base before it edits code: threat models, past bugs in that file, verified patches. - [coverage-analysis](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/dotnet-coverage-analysis.md) — skill · dotnet · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 3600 installs — Interpret .NET line, branch, and condition coverage, find gaps, and diagnose plateaus. - [pragmatic-programmer](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/pragmatic-programmer.md) — skill · wondelai · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 5800 installs — A skill that applies the meta-principles from The Pragmatic Programmer: DRY, orthogonality, tracer bullets, contracts. - [review-plugin-submission](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/review-plugin-submission.md) — skill · cursor · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 1200 installs — Audits a Cursor plugin for marketplace readiness: manifest, component metadata, discovery paths, docs quality. - [dotnet-pinvoke](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/dotnet-pinvoke.md) — skill · dotnet · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 3500 installs — Calls C and C++ native libraries from .NET via DllImport and LibraryImport. - [crap-score](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/crap-score.md) — skill · dotnet · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 3500 installs — Calculates Change Risk Anti-Patterns (CRAP) scores for .NET methods, classes, and files. - [wp-plugin-directory-guidelines](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/wp-plugin-directory-guidelines.md) — skill · WordPress · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 3600 installs — Audits WordPress plugins against 18 WordPress.org Directory guidelines, verifying GPL license compatibility and freemium rules before submission. - [migrate-nullable-references](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/migrate-nullable-references.md) — skill · dotnet · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 3400 installs — A skill that enables nullable reference types in C# projects and resolves all warnings. - [detect-static-dependencies](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/detect-static-dependencies.md) — skill · dotnet · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 3400 installs — Scans C# and .NET code for static dependencies that complicate testing. - [convert-to-cpm](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/convert-to-cpm.md) — skill · dotnet · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 3400 installs — Converts .NET projects and solutions to NuGet Central Package Management with Directory.Packages.props. - [writing-mstest-tests](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/writing-mstest-tests.md) — skill · dotnet · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 3400 installs — A skill that fixes and modernizes existing MSTest tests: picks the right assertion, keeps expected/actual order, and respects your installed MSTest version. - [qoder-delegate](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/qoder-delegate.md) — skill · amElnagdy · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 3300 installs — This skill sends one bounded coding task to Qoder CLI as a background implementer, then leaves the diff review and the commit to you. - [cmux-review](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/cmux-review.md) — skill · manaflow-ai · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 499 installs — Runs an independent subagent review on agent-generated diffs before merge. - [swift-concurrency-expert](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/swift-concurrency-expert.md) — skill · Dimillian · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2000 installs — Skill reviews and fixes concurrency issues in Swift 6.2+: adds Sendable conformance, applies @MainActor, resolves actor isolation warnings, and migrates completion handlers to async/await. 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