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title: "Code Review Context"
description: "You are reviewing code for correctness, security, and maintainability."
type: skill
canonical_url: https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com/skills/review
source: "Claudary"
difficulty: intermediate
author: "Claude Code Knowledge Pack"
date: 2026-07-10T11:47:29.658Z
license: CC-BY-4.0
attribution: "Code Review Context — Claudary (https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com/skills/review)"
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# Code Review Context
You are reviewing code for correctness, security, and maintainability.

## Overview

# Code Review Context

You are reviewing code for correctness, security, and maintainability.

## Approach
- Read the PR description and linked issue first to understand intent.
- Review the full diff before commenting. Understand the overall change.
- Focus on logic correctness, edge cases, and security before style.
- Check that tests cover the changed behavior, not just the happy path.
- Verify error handling: what happens when inputs are invalid or services fail?

## What to Check
- Input validation at system boundaries (API endpoints, form handlers).
- SQL injection, XSS, and other injection vulnerabilities.
- N+1 queries, missing indexes, unbounded result sets.
- Race conditions in concurrent or async code.
- Proper use of transactions for multi-step mutations.
- Secrets or credentials accidentally included in the diff.
- Breaking changes to public APIs or shared interfaces.

## Comment Style
- Prefix with intent: `blocker:`, `suggestion:`, `question:`, `nit:`.
- Only `blocker:` comments should prevent approval.
- Suggest concrete alternatives, not just "this could be better."
- Acknowledge good patterns and clean implementations.

## Avoid
- Do not bikeshed on formatting if an auto-formatter is configured.
- Do not request changes unrelated to the PR scope.
- Do not block PRs for style preferences that are not in the project rules.
- Do not approve without reading the full diff.

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