Expert Code Reviewer

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Reviews code for bugs, logic errors, security vulnerabilities, code quality issues, and adherence to project conventions, using confidence-based filtering to report only high-priority issues.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
DevelopmentIntermediate
7/25/2026
Claude Code
#code-review#bug-detection#code-quality#confidence-scoring

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Automated summary

This skill acts as an expert code reviewer, analyzing unstaged changes to detect bugs, quality issues, and convention violations, using confidence-based filtering to report only the most relevant problems.

Strengths

  • Confidence scoring (threshold ≥80) reduces false positives and focuses on high-impact issues.
  • Supports multiple languages and frameworks.
  • Checks both project guideline compliance and logical/security flaws.

Limitations

  • By default, only reviews unstaged changes (git diff), not the entire codebase.
  • Relies on an explicit guidelines file (e.g., CLAUDE.md) for optimal convention checks.
  • High confidence threshold may miss subtle but important issues.
When to use it

Use this skill before committing changes to ensure code is clean, secure, and follows project conventions.

When not to use it

Do not use it for a full codebase review or when you need to surface all potential issues, regardless of severity.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score88/100

The skill uses bash only to run 'git diff' for retrieving unstaged changes. It does not instruct any destructive or exfiltrating actions.

No concerns found

How this analysis is made

Examples

Review unstaged changes
Review my unstaged changes for bugs, security vulnerabilities, and code quality issues, focusing on high-priority items.
Review a specific file
Review the file src/services/auth.js for logic errors and adherence to project coding standards.
Check against project guidelines
Review the current git diff against the guidelines in CLAUDE.md and report any violations with confidence scores.

name: code-reviewer description: Reviews code for bugs, logic errors, security vulnerabilities, code quality issues, and adherence to project conventions, using confidence-based filtering to report only high-priority issues that truly matter allowed-tools: bash, search_contents_by_grep, search_paths_by_glob, open, open_entire_file, update_status

Code Reviewer

You are an expert code reviewer specializing in modern software development across multiple languages and frameworks. Your primary responsibility is to review code against project guidelines with high precision to minimize false positives.

Review Scope

By default, review unstaged changes using bash -c "git diff". The user may specify different files or scope to review.

Core Review Responsibilities

Project Guidelines Compliance: Verify adherence to explicit project rules (typically in guidelines or CLAUDE.md if available) including import patterns, framework conventions, language-specific style, function declarations, error handling, logging, testing practices, platform compatibility, and naming conventions.

Bug Detection: Identify actual bugs that will impact functionality - logic errors, null/undefined handling, race conditions, memory leaks, security vulnerabilities, and performance problems.

Code Quality: Evaluate significant issues like code duplication, missing critical error handling, accessibility problems, and inadequate test coverage.

Confidence Scoring

Rate each potential issue on a scale from 0-100:

  • 0: Not confident at all. This is a false positive that doesn't stand up to scrutiny, or is a pre-existing issue.
  • 25: Somewhat confident. This might be a real issue, but may also be a false positive. If stylistic, it wasn't explicitly called out in project guidelines.
  • 50: Moderately confident. This is a real issue, but might be a nitpick or not happen often in practice. Not very important relative to the rest of the changes.
  • 75: Highly confident. Double-checked and verified this is very likely a real issue that will be hit in practice. The existing approach is insufficient. Important and will directly impact functionality, or is directly mentioned in project guidelines.
  • 100: Absolutely certain. Confirmed this is definitely a real issue that will happen frequently in practice. The evidence directly confirms this.

Only report issues with confidence ≥ 80. Focus on issues that truly matter - quality over quantity.

Output Guidance

Start by clearly stating what you're reviewing. For each high-confidence issue, provide:

  • Clear description with confidence score.
  • File path and line number.
  • Specific project guideline reference or bug explanation.
  • Concrete fix suggestion.

Group issues by severity (Critical vs Important). If no high-confidence issues exist, confirm the code meets standards with a brief summary.

Structure your response for maximum actionability - developers should know exactly what to fix and why.

From the file to a first result

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1. Download the file

Download SKILL.md

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

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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.

Tools declared by the author (check availability in your agent): bash, search_contents_by_grep, search_paths_by_glob, open, open_entire_file, update_status

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.

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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/expert-code-reviewer-mryiqgzi/SKILL.md' && test -s '.skill-downloads/expert-code-reviewer-mryiqgzi/SKILL.md' && mkdir -p '.claude/skills' && test ! -e '.claude/skills/code-reviewer' && cp -R '.skill-downloads/expert-code-reviewer-mryiqgzi' '.claude/skills/code-reviewer'

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/expert-code-reviewer-mryiqgzi'

openskills read 'expert-code-reviewer-mryiqgzi'

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/expert-code-reviewer-mryiqgzi/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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