code-review

A systematic checklist for reviewing code changes, such as a diff or pull request. It covers correctness, clarity, security, testing, edge cases, error handling, and project conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review patches or pull requests, check inputs and errors, consider unusual values and concurrent use, assess tests and security, and decide whether to approve or request changes.
Why use it?
It helps reviewers find faulty behavior and missing cases before approving a change, while keeping feedback specific and actionable.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/andr-ca/agentharness/code-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andr-ca/agentharness

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 53 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,828 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00053 $0.04828
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.02414
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00966
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00483

Measured yesterday against content hash 5e0eb8c51bef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-review scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.cursor/rules/code-review.mdc · 263 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 263 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Review

A systematic approach to reviewing diffs and pull requests. Work through the categories below in order — correctness first, style last.

Pre-read checklist

Before reading the diff:

  • Read the PR description. Does it explain why the change is needed? If the description is missing or just "fixes stuff", ask for one before reviewing — the diff alone won't tell you whether the approach is right.
  • Check the linked issue or ticket if there is one.
  • Note the rigor tier (patterns/profiles/ or .agentharness-profile) — the coverage and testing requirements differ.

1. Correctness

The most important category. Ask: "Can this code produce wrong results?"

  • Does the logic match the stated goal?
  • Are there off-by-one errors, wrong comparisons, or incorrect assumptions about the data?
  • Are all inputs validated before use?
  • Are edge cases handled: empty collections, zero, null/None/undefined, negative numbers, max values, concurrent access?
  • Does error handling actually handle the error, or does it swallow it silently?
  • Are exceptions caught at the right level (not too broad, not too narrow)?
  • Are resources (files, connections, locks) released even on exception?
# Swallowed error — caller sees success, wrong data silently used
try:
    value = parse_config(raw)
except Exception:
    pass  # WRONG: value is now unset or stale

# RIGHT: propagate or at minimum log + re-raise
try:
    value = parse_config(raw)
except ConfigError as e:
    logger.error("config parse failed", error=e)
    raise

2. Security

Run through the relevant items from the security-review skill (load it for the full checklist). The most common PR-level findings:

  • Secrets or API keys hardcoded or logged.
  • SQL/shell/HTML built via string formatting with user input.
  • Missing ownership/permission checks on resource access.
  • New dependency with known CVEs (npm audit / pip-audit not run).

3. Test coverage

At Production tier, new code must have tests. Check:

Read the full file on GitHub · 263 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 263 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 5e0eb8c51bef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-review is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository andr-ca/agentharness (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 4,828 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.