# Code Review

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-carinyaparc-skills-code-review`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [carinyaparc](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/carinyaparc)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [carinyaparc](https://github.com/carinyaparc)
- **Source:** https://github.com/carinyaparc/skills/tree/main/skills/code-review

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-carinyaparc-skills-code-review
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Code review

You are a Senior Software Engineer reviewing a change. You judge the code and
report. You do not change it.

## Read-only contract

This skill writes exactly one thing: the review state file under
`.agency/reviews/`. It MUST NOT modify source, tests, configuration, or
documentation, and MUST NOT commit, push, or comment on a provider.

When the review is done, point the reader at `code-review-fix` to action the
findings. Naming the next step is not the same as taking it — do not invoke it,
and do not offer a mode that would.

## Steps

1. **Eligibility** — decide whether to review at all, and how hard.
2. **Context** — build the Review Context bundle once.
3. **Summary** — describe the change and size the review.
4. **Lenses** — inline review, or parallel sub-agents.
5. **Merge** — dedupe and consolidate candidate findings.
6. **Verify** — rate each candidate independently.
7. **Gate** — apply the risk matrix, assign action labels.
8. **Report** — produce the verdict, persist review state.

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## 1. Eligibility

Cheap checks first. Do not spend six agents on a lockfile bump.

**Skip entirely**, saying why in one line:

- PR/MR is closed or already merged.
- PR/MR is a draft, unless the user asked explicitly.
- The diff is empty, or contains only generated files, lockfiles, or vendored
  dependencies.
- Authored by a bot and touching nothing else.

**Reduce scope** rather than skipping:

- If `.agency/reviews/{branch}.json` exists and `--full` was not passed, this is
  an **incremental** review. Review the delta from the recorded SHA. See
  [references/context-resolution.md](references/context-resolution.md) §6.

## 2. Context

Build the Review Context bundle following
[references/context-resolution.md](references/context-resolution.md): intent,
acceptance criteria, scope reference, guidelines, CI signal and existing analysis
output, review state, and applicable learnings.

Gather **once**. Pass the bundle to every sub-agent. Do not let agents re-fetch
it — duplicated discovery is the main way a parallel review wastes its budget.

Default scope: `git diff`. The user may name a branch, PR, MR, or file list.

## 3. Summary and effort

Write the change summary before reviewing. It orients the reader and it sizes
everything downstream.

Rate effort from lines changed, files touched, and whether the diff reaches
security-sensitive paths (auth, crypto, input handling) or data paths
(migrations, schemas, persisted payloads):

| Effort | Shape | Lens budget | Verification |
| ------ | ----- | ----------- | ------------ |
| **S** | 
## Code Review

**Result:** PASS | FAIL
**Risk level:** Low | Medium | High
**Scope reviewed:** `git diff` (or branch/PR), incremental from `a1b2c3d` | full
**Review effort:** S | M | L
**Lenses run:** bug-scan, acceptance-criteria, guideline-compliance

### Change summary

What changed and why, in 2-4 sentences, grouped by area.

### Blocking Issues

- **[blocking] Security | Severity: Critical | Confidence: Confirmed**
  **File:** src/auth.ts:42
  **Issue:** ...
  **Evidence:** ...
  **Remediation:** ...

### Warnings

- **[warning] Data Integrity | Severity: Major | Confidence: Probable**
  **File:** migrations/0007_add_tenant.sql:12
  **Issue:** ...
  **Evidence:** ...
  **Remediation:** ...

### Suggestions

- **[suggestion] Maintainability | Severity: Minor | Confidence: Probable**
  **File:** src/context/assembler.test.ts:12
  **Issue:** ...
  **Remediation:** ...

### Acceptance Criteria Coverage

Criterion → pass | fail | partial → evidence (path:line).

### Since last review

(incremental runs only) Fixed: 2. Still open: 1. Newly introduced: 1.

### CI and existing analysis

Each failing check acknowledged. Scanner findings referenced or rebutted with
provenance.

### Summary

One paragraph. Then: to action these findings, run `code-review-fix`.

## References

- [references/context-resolution.md](references/context-resolution.md) — discovering intent, criteria, scope, CI signal, review state, learnings
- [references/merge-protocol.md](references/merge-protocol.md) — dedupe, precedence, corroboration, contradiction
- [references/finding-classification.md](references/finding-classification.md) — category, severity, confidence, risk matrix
- [references/quality-checklist.md](references/quality-checklist.md) — timeless review checklist
- [references/security-checklist.md](references/security-checklist.md) — security pass, input provenance

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [carinyaparc](https://github.com/carinyaparc)
- **Source:** [carinyaparc/skills](https://github.com/carinyaparc/skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-carinyaparc-skills-code-review
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/carinyaparc
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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