Code Review Checklist

Systematic code review patterns covering security, performance, maintainability, correctness, and testing — with severity levels, structured feedback guidance, review process, and anti-patterns to avoid.

What's Inside

• Review dimensions with priority ranking (Security → Performance → Correctness → Maintainability → Testing → Accessibility → Documentation)
• Security checklist (SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, auth, secrets, rate limiting)
• Performance checklist (N+1 queries, re-renders, memory leaks, bundle size, caching)
• Correctness checklist (edge cases, null handling, race conditions, timezone handling)
• Maintainability checklist (naming, SRP, DRY, dead code, dependency direction)
• Testing checklist (coverage, edge cases, flaky tests, mocking discipline)
• Three-pass review process (high-level → line-by-line → edge cases)
• Severity levels (Critical, Major, Minor, Nitpick) with merge-blocking guidance
• Feedback principles and example comments
• Review anti-patterns to avoid

When to Use

• Reviewing pull requests or merge requests
• Establishing review standards for a team
• Improving the quality and consistency of code reviews
• Training new reviewers on what to look for

Installation

npx add https://github.com/wpank/ai/tree/main/skills/testing/code-review

OpenClaw / Moltbot / Clawbot

npx clawhub@latest install code-review

Manual Installation

Cursor (per-project)

From your project root:

mkdir -p .cursor/skills
cp -r ~/.ai-skills/skills/testing/code-review .cursor/skills/code-review

Cursor (global)

mkdir -p ~/.cursor/skills
cp -r ~/.ai-skills/skills/testing/code-review ~/.cursor/skills/code-review

Claude Code (per-project)

From your project root:

mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -r ~/.ai-skills/skills/testing/code-review .claude/skills/code-review

Claude Code (global)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r ~/.ai-skills/skills/testing/code-review ~/.claude/skills/code-review

Related Skills

• clean-code — Coding standards that reviews enforce
• quality-gates — Automated quality checkpoints in CI/CD
• testing-patterns — Testing standards to check during review

Part of the Testing skill category.