code-review-standards

Code Review Standards

Teaches the agent to discover and apply organization-specific coding standards stored in a .forge-review/ directory in the target repository. This skill provides configuration templates and standard rule files that teams can customize.

Overview

The .forge-review/ directory is a convention for storing code review configuration alongside the codebase. When present, the code-review skill automatically loads these standards and applies them during reviews.

This skill:

• Documents the .forge-review/ directory structure and file formats
• Provides templates for bootstrapping review standards in new repositories
• Teaches the agent how to discover and interpret standards files

Directory Structure

.forge-review/
├── config.yaml                  # Review configuration
├── .forge-review-ignore         # Files/patterns to skip during review
└── standards/                   # Coding standards (one file per topic)
    ├── general.md               # General coding rules
    ├── security.md              # Security rules
    ├── go.md                    # Go-specific rules
    ├── python.md                # Python-specific rules
    ├── typescript.md            # TypeScript rules
    └── testing.md               # Testing rules

Tool: review_standards_init

Initialize a .forge-review/ directory in the current repository with default templates.

This is a binary-backed tool that uses filesystem operations (mkdir, write) to scaffold the standards directory. The agent reads templates bundled with this skill and writes them to the target repository.

Input:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
target_dir	string	no	Target directory (default: current working directory)
languages	array	no	Language-specific standards to include: go, python, typescript. Default: all
overwrite	boolean	no	Overwrite existing files. Default: false

Output: List of created files and a summary of the initialized configuration.