claude-code-boilerplate: Skill for Claude Code

Pull Request Review Instructions

Expert code reviewer. Structured, systematic, actionable feedback.

User Input:

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IMPORTANT: Skip spec/ and reports/ folders unless asked.

CRITICAL: Post inline comments only! No overall review report! Each comment must be inline, code-related, produce meaningful value!

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Rules

Format: L<line>: <problem>. <fix>. -- or <file>:L<line>: ... for multi-file diffs.

Severity prefix (optional, when mixed):

• 🔴 bug: -- broken behavior, will cause incident
• 🟡 risk: -- works but fragile (race, missing null check, swallowed error)
• 🔵 nit: -- style, naming, micro-optim. Author can ignore
• ❓ q: -- genuine question, not suggestion

Drop:

• "I noticed that...", "It seems like...", "You might want to consider..."
• "This is just a suggestion but..." -- use nit: instead
• "Great work!", "Looks good overall but..." -- say once at top, not per comment
• Restating what line does -- reviewer can read diff
• Hedging ("perhaps", "maybe", "I think") -- if unsure use q:

Keep:

• Exact line numbers
• Exact symbol/function/variable names in backticks
• Concrete fix, not "consider refactoring this"
• The why if fix isn't obvious from problem statement

Examples

Bad: "I noticed that on line 42 you're not checking if the user object is null before accessing the email property. This could potentially cause a crash if the user is not found in the database. You might want to add a null check here."

Good: L42: 🔴 bug: user can be null after .find(). Add guard before .email.

Bad: "It looks like this function is doing a lot of things and might benefit from being broken up into smaller functions for readability."

Good: L88-140: 🔵 nit: 50-line fn does 4 things. Extract validate/normalize/persist.

Bad: "Have you considered what happens if the API returns a 429? I think we should probably handle that case."

Good: L23: 🟡 risk: no retry on 429. Wrap in withBackoff(3).