Code Review

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Reviews code for bugs, security issues, style violations, and suggests improvements.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
DevelopmentBeginner
7/24/2026
Claude CodeCursorCodex
#code-review#security-audit#code-quality#pull-requests#static-analysis

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Automated summary

Walks an agent through a four-pass code review (security, bugs, quality, performance) and reports findings as severity-tagged issues.

Strengths

  • Four-pass checklist keeps each review category from being skipped
  • Uniform output format with severity, category, file:line location, issue and suggested fix
  • Explicitly targets injection flaws, hardcoded secrets and input validation gaps
  • Low risk: the instruction is read-only and does not modify the code

Limitations

  • No tooling is run — no linter or SAST; everything relies on the model reading the code
  • No language- or framework-specific rules are included
  • Severity levels are judgement calls with no defined scoring criteria
When to use it

Use it for a broad first-pass review of a file, diff or pull request before human sign-off.

When not to use it

Avoid it for compliance-grade security audits or for enforcing project-specific lint rules.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score78/100

This skill is a pure instruction/prompt document for reviewing code. It declares no tools, runs no commands, performs no network or filesystem operations, and contains no obfuscated payloads, secret exfiltration, or destructive instructions. The only latent risk is that reviewing untrusted code is an advisory activity, not an execution one, so listing it poses no meaningful risk.

No concerns found

How this analysis is made

Examples

Review a pull request
Review this pull request diff for bugs, security issues and style problems, and report each finding with its severity and file:line.
Security audit a module
Do a security audit of src/auth/session.ts — check for injection, hardcoded secrets and missing input validation.
Pre-merge quality check
Review the changes in the payments service for code quality, error handling gaps and N+1 query patterns before I merge.

name: "code-review" description: "Reviews code for bugs, security issues, style violations, and suggests improvements" triggers: ["review", "code review", "code quality", "lint", "security audit", "PR review"] risk_level: "low"

Instructions

When reviewing code, follow this structured approach:

1. Security Review

  • Check for injection vulnerabilities (SQL, XSS, command injection)
  • Look for hardcoded secrets or credentials
  • Verify proper input validation and sanitization
  • Check authentication and authorization patterns

2. Bug Detection

  • Look for off-by-one errors, null pointer issues
  • Check error handling completeness
  • Verify edge cases are handled
  • Look for race conditions in concurrent code

3. Code Quality

  • Assess naming conventions and readability
  • Check for code duplication
  • Verify documentation completeness
  • Assess test coverage

4. Performance

  • Identify potential bottlenecks
  • Check for unnecessary allocations or copies
  • Look for N+1 query patterns
  • Verify proper resource cleanup

Output Format

For each issue found:

[SEVERITY] [CATEGORY] — Brief description
  Location: file:line
  Issue: What's wrong
  Fix: Suggested fix

Severity levels: 🔴 CRITICAL | 🟠 HIGH | 🟡 MEDIUM | 🟢 LOW | 💡 SUGGESTION

From the file to a first result

The download contains exactly the content displayed on this page. This copy may differ from the latest version in the source repository.

View the source and supporting files

This download contains SKILL.md only. Any scripts, references, templates and dependencies are not included. Get the required files from the source, preserving their directory structure, before continuing.

1. Download the file

Download SKILL.md

From the root of a test project, save the file as .skill-downloads/code-review-mryiqhyw/SKILL.md, or use the command below. This folder is for inspecting the skill before installation.

Command for macOS/Linux or WSL: requires a POSIX shell and curl. On Windows without WSL, use the download button and create the folder manually.

mkdir -p '.skill-downloads/code-review-mryiqhyw' && curl --fail --show-error --location 'https://skills-guides.com/api/skills/code-review-mryiqhyw/download' --output '.skill-downloads/code-review-mryiqhyw/SKILL.md.part' && mv '.skill-downloads/code-review-mryiqhyw/SKILL.md.part' '.skill-downloads/code-review-mryiqhyw/SKILL.md'

2. Check prerequisites

Read SKILL.md before using it. If it references scripts or external services, inspect them and prepare the required access in your test environment.

No recognized prerequisites section in this file. This does not mean it is self-contained: libraries, tools and access requirements may be mentioned elsewhere in the content or source repository.

The platforms on this page are catalog indications. The paths below follow tool documentation; they do not prove this skill has been run in those tools. No minimum tool version is confirmed for this listing.

3. Load the skill

After inspection, copy the complete folder into your project using one of the commands below, then open a new tool session. The command stops if a folder with the same name already exists: compare the files before replacing it.

Claude Code
test -f '.skill-downloads/code-review-mryiqhyw/SKILL.md' && test -s '.skill-downloads/code-review-mryiqhyw/SKILL.md' && mkdir -p '.claude/skills' && test ! -e '.claude/skills/code-review' && cp -R '.skill-downloads/code-review-mryiqhyw' '.claude/skills/code-review'

Cursor
test -f '.skill-downloads/code-review-mryiqhyw/SKILL.md' && test -s '.skill-downloads/code-review-mryiqhyw/SKILL.md' && mkdir -p '.cursor/skills' && test ! -e '.cursor/skills/code-review' && cp -R '.skill-downloads/code-review-mryiqhyw' '.cursor/skills/code-review'

Codex
test -f '.skill-downloads/code-review-mryiqhyw/SKILL.md' && test -s '.skill-downloads/code-review-mryiqhyw/SKILL.md' && mkdir -p '.agents/skills' && test ! -e '.agents/skills/code-review' && cp -R '.skill-downloads/code-review-mryiqhyw' '.agents/skills/code-review'

OpenSkills

OpenSkills must already be installed. The local install/read procedure is checked with OpenSkills 1.5.0, which requires Node.js ≥ 20.6.0. Catalog slugs are not resolved automatically.

Official OpenSkills installation
openskills install './.skill-downloads/code-review-mryiqhyw'

openskills read 'code-review-mryiqhyw'

Reading should display the installed file content and its base directory. It does not run the skill or install its dependencies.

For an agent that reads AGENTS.md, then sync the index. This command changes AGENTS.md: review the diff before using it.

openskills sync

Manual method or another tool: attach SKILL.md to a conversation, or open it in an agent that can read files. Include any required supporting resources. No universal folder is recognized by every tool.

4. Try a first task

Use a short, synthetic input: an API endpoint, a small document or an interface brief. In a new conversation, attach the file or give the agent its path, then adapt this request:

Read .skill-downloads/code-review-mryiqhyw/SKILL.md and apply its instructions to this example: [describe a test input]. Identify any missing files, dependencies or access. Produce the result requested by the skill without inventing data or running unreviewed scripts.

Expected result: output matching the skill instructions, or a precise list of missing prerequisites. A read confirmation alone does not validate a first use. If an external resource is unavailable, that path remains untested.

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