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code-review-checklist

Comprehensive checklist for conducting thorough code reviews covering functionality, security, performance, and maintainability

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0.98x
Quality

42%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

97%

0.98x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No findings from the security scan

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The canonical home for this skill is code-review-checklist in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The skill provides a thorough, well-structured checklist with concrete code examples, but is heavily padded through triplicated checklist content and inlines everything in a single monolithic file. Workflow steps are sequenced but lack explicit validation gates.

Suggestions

De-duplicate the checklists: keep one canonical review checklist and reference it rather than restating it in the steps, examples, and complete-review sections.

Move the full per-domain markdown checklist examples into a reference file and link to it from the body to reduce token cost.

Add explicit validation checkpoints in the workflow, e.g. 'Run the test suite and confirm it passes before approving' as a gate between review and sign-off.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The ~440-line body restates the same checklist three times (per-section steps, full markdown examples, and the 'Complete Review Checklist') and explains concepts Claude already knows, matching the noticeably-verbose anchor.

2 / 5

Actionability

Concrete bad/good code examples (validation, SQL injection, naming) are actionable, but the core review process is posed as questions rather than executable steps, leaving guidance partially incomplete.

3 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Steps 1-6 are sequenced, but validation checkpoints are only implicit (e.g. 'check if tests pass in CI/CD' is listed in pre-review, not enforced as a gate), matching the steps-listed-but-validation-gaps anchor.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist, so all content is inlined in one large file with reasonable section headers, but the full checklist examples and complete-review section are inlined rather than split out, matching the some-structure-but-inline-content anchor.

3 / 5

Total

11

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20

Passed

Description

42%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description states what the skill covers but omits any 'Use when...' trigger guidance and lacks concrete review actions, capping completeness and trigger quality. It is reasonably specific to code review but generic enough to risk overlap with related skills.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause naming natural triggers like reviewing pull requests, auditing code, or setting team review standards.

Replace the abstract sub-domain list with concrete actions, e.g. 'check for SQL injection and XSS, verify edge cases are handled, confirm tests cover new code'.

Include common synonyms users say such as 'pull request', 'PR', 'code audit', and 'review this diff' to improve trigger matching.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain (code reviews) and enumerates four sub-domains (functionality, security, performance, maintainability), but lists no concrete review actions; sits just above the generic 'names the domain' anchor.

3 / 5

Completeness

Gives a clear 'what' (a checklist covering four review areas) but no 'when'/'Use when' clause at all, which caps completeness at 3.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Only 'code reviews' is a natural keyword; common user phrases like 'pull request', 'PR', 'review my code', or 'review this diff' are absent, matching the one-or-two-generic-keywords anchor.

2 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'Code review checklist' is a recognizable niche but overlaps broadly with general code-review skills; the four enumerated areas add only mild distinctiveness.

3 / 5

Total

11

/

20

Passed

Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

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