What do I need to use Code Review Guide?

The change; Context; Focus (optional).

Is Code Review Guide free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Code Review Guide

Q: How do I know the Code Review Guide output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Correctness, security, and design are reviewed before style — priority order; Comments are ranked by severity (blocking vs. should-fix vs. nit), not a flat list; Each comment explains *why* and offers a concrete suggestion, not just "this is wrong"; At least one specific thing done well is noted.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-06-30 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-craft

Review a pull request or diff like a thoughtful senior engineer — prioritized, kind, and focused on what matters. Use when reviewing code, giving PR feedback, or asked to 'review this change'. Produces a structured review: a correctness/design pass, comments ranked by severity (blocking → nit), what's done well, and a clear approve / request-changes call — feedback that improves the code and the author.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

What to give it

▸The change — the diff/PR, and ideally its description/intent (what it's trying to do).

▸Context — language/stack, conventions, the part of the system it touches, risk level.

▸Focus (optional) — (optional) — anything specific to scrutinize (security, performance, a tricky area).

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Correctness, security, and design are reviewed before style — priority order

✓Comments are ranked by severity (blocking vs. should-fix vs. nit), not a flat list

✓Each comment explains *why* and offers a concrete suggestion, not just "this is wrong"

✓At least one specific thing done well is noted

✓A clear verdict (approve / request changes) with the gating issues named

✓Tone is direct but kind — critiques the code, not the author

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not nitpick style while missing a correctness or security problem — priority first

Do not dump ungraded comments — rank them so the author knows what's blocking

Do not say "this is wrong" without why and a suggested fix

Do not rewrite it your way for taste — respect working approaches; flag real issues

Do not be a jerk — review the code, acknowledge good work, keep the author motivated

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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