code-review-excellence
Gives constructive code review feedback that catches bugs early and shares knowledge across the team.
- Kind
- Skill
- Works with
- Claude Code, Codex
- Source
- wshobson/agents @ 0874a27b17a2
- Path
- plugins/developer-essentials/skills/code-review-excellence/SKILL.md
- License
- MIT
- Jobs
- Review
InstallInstall it from a plugin marketplace.
/plugin install developer-essentials@claude-code-workflows
# Code Review Excellence Transform code reviews from gatekeeping to knowledge sharing through constructive feedback, systematic analysis, and collaborative improvement. ## When to Use This Skill - Reviewing pull requests and code changes - Establishing code review standards for teams - Mentoring junior developers through reviews - Conducting architecture reviews - Creating review checklists and guidelines - Improving team collaboration - Reducing code review cycle time - Maintaining code quality standards ## Core Principles ### 1. The Review Mindset **Goals of Code Review:** - Catch bugs and edge cases - Ensure code maintainability - Share knowledge across team - Enforce coding standards - Improve design and architecture - Build team culture **Not the Goals:** - Show off knowledge - Nitpick formatting (use linters) - Block progress unnecessarily - Rewrite to your preference ### 2. Effective Feedback **Good Feedback is:** - Specific and actionable - Educational, not judgmental - Focused on the code, not the person - Balanced (praise good work too) - Prioritized (critical vs nice-to-have) ```markdown ❌ Bad: "This is wrong." …